Cyprus Today had had a 50% price increase! see link
I don’t know what it was but I had a bad stomach all the previous night and spent half the night in the loo! I don’t think it was anything I ate as Mal had eaten the same. So, I spent some of the day in bed and dosing myself with Imodium. We had arranged to go to Cratos Casino in the evening, so another Imodium before we left!
We met Robin and Christa and went to Cratos. Impressive, perhaps TRNC is catching up with Turkey in the quality hotel stakes! see link Hadise was perfroming there, she evidently represented Turkey in the 2009 Eurovision song contest.
We went into the casino where you take your passport and put money on your card they give you. The stakes are high on the tables but we just played the machines. Mal was once banned from a casino for card counting at blackjack and winning too much so the machines were safer! Whilst you are gambling your money away the staff bring you drinks, peanuts, fruit, cigarettes (no charge). There is also a restaurant there where you can eat (no charge again) but there seemed to be a shortage of tables which you had to wait for. Having had a bad stomach I had little to eat or drink! But I managed to come out quits and Mal doubled his money. Quite an entertaining evening.
As we left Cratos all the Press and TV cameras were there, obvioulsy waiting for Hadise, not us!
Thought for the Day – “It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” ~ Paulo Coelho