12th Jan 2011

It always surprises me when I come back to Cyprus, what natural beauty we are surrounded by. It is so easy to take it for granted but not me and I haven’t even been down to the beach yet! I just love walks in the mountains.

Walk over and I went to get some shopping and the Cyprus Today. I think the midweek CT is a bit of a waste of money, it just seems to repeat what is in the weekend edition,  see link

I went into Atakara and was surprised that they had fresh lychees in there. I love them. They were 6.95 a kilo which I thought was reasonable. I am still trying to work out what has been done to VAT or hasn’t the government quite decided?! On my receipt milk is zero rated now but the price is the same. Lemons are 1%, they must be Cyprus lemons as the trees are full of them locally. All the other fruit and vegetables appear to be 5%. Bottled water (19 litres) is 5% . Yoghurt is 5%. Fruit juice 10%, crisps 16% and wine 20%. It seems like a very complicated system.

More cleaning!

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Thought for the Day – “Dogs are not our whole life but they make our lives whole” – Roger Caras