On The Island

Mal and I spent the day packing and cleaning up the caravan. We have now booked new tickets on Easyjet so that we could get back home and also take the 4 boys with us!  CTA have really let us down with all the tickets we have bought. So much for trying to support the TRNC economy. Not that anyone seems to care!

We had to leave Torin’s early as we were to return our rental car to Stansted again. Always sad leaving any of the kids.  Long story about this hire car swap, but we won’t be using Easycar or Budget again. Hertz for us from now on.

As we were back in Kent so early we stopped at Brogdale in Faversham as they had their Cherry Festival on. Brogdale has the largest collection of fruit trees in the world and before going to Cyprus, we used to be members. It was a lovely day and Mal is as mad on cherries as I am. I even bought him a kilo back from Cyprus!  So, there were all the tastings of the many varieties. We also went on the orchard walk, knowing that you can pick them off the trees…..mmmmm! Cherry heaven! The orchard walk is very informative. We discovered that they grow their pears on quince root stock. One of the pictures shows quince leaves at the bottom and pear at the top. Well worth a visit if you are ever in Faversham.

There were also a lot of stalls there so a good day out. We had some good Indian food, loads of cherries and finally we watched the gun dog display.

It was still very warm and sunny and so we stopped at Minnis Bay and had an ice cream.

We watched the World Cup Final in the evening.

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Another very hot day, temperatures reached 31 degrees. Well, hot for England! We drove to Torin’s so that we could see Scarlet and Karen before we leave as they missed the wedding. Karen cooked us a lovely BBQ but things are still not going too well with the twins. They had both been sick in the night and were both sick again when we were there, so they missed out on the BBQ and ended up in bed early as they were just not well. Scarlet is now walking around holding her arm in the air because she hasn’t got used to having the splint off yet and of course she is still on medication. She is so sweet though and very different to boys that I am used to. She sat on my lap for ages.  We then went back to Torin’s and stayed the night.

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So, it is official, as many suspected in the North, Jennifer Lopez has cancelled her appearance in the TRNC.

Dominic has sent an article in to North Cyprus Free Press

See article here

After all the stresses of the last week or so, I think we both felt a lot better. We have booked an alternative flight home and so we can relax a bit now, not before time!  We even managed to sit in the garden for a while in the glorious sunshine.

In the evening we walked across the fields to the Toby Carvery. £5.25 for two courses…and the TRNC used to be cheap!

We arrived back to the caravan to watch ‘Homes from Hell’ with the Orams on it. Anyone watching would believe that all the ex pats in the TRNC are going the same way as the Orams. Why don’t they do an update at the end explaining about the IPC, where all Greeks have to apply now? Not good reporting.

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Mal started clearing his parcels full of exam papers so we were able to move in the caravan…..DHL’s nightmare as they have to come and collect all of them but he is doing it in easy stages, only about 20 at a time!It gave me a chance to do some cleaning and sorting. Mal never has time when he is working.

In the evening we watched the Spain v Germany semi final. Torin is working in Madrid and so got little sleep that night!

Mal and I seemed to spend another entire day weighing up all our options of getting the four boys and us back to the TRNC.  I think it is all taking its toll on me now!