Sorry...

...for not posting for a while but since I got back on the 23rd September I've been rushed off my feet. It took me three days to get through the bullshit it takes to register a car over here. But it helps being ‘famous’ otherwise it could have taken twice the amount of time. I now have a new, well second hand, camera (My old camera is still at the repairers but being the impatient and frivolous person I am I can never keep it in my pocket and bought another Canon, the 40D!) and have a few more pictures to put on here showing off the new villa I've moved into and it's beautiful surroundings. I hope it doesn't make you all too jealous.

I have a new nickname, hop-along Cassidy. My foot slipped off the back of the foot-well of the van and my knee has swollen like a balloon. I’m now on pain-killers and enforced rest, which is not an easy thing for me but hey, ‘shit happens.’

Anyway, here are some long awaited pics:

Early morning photo lookong at the front. To the lower left is the large 'french window' that over-looks the mountain range that seperates North Cyprus from the south.

Front (Side) of villa. The door to the upper right is the master bedroom and is one of three.

View from living room to fitted kitchen. Note the coloured tiles on the floor. They are three hundred years old and and were re-consituted from an old Cypriot villa, as were most of the materials that make up the villa

The living room

Central view from kitchen showing the beast of the wood burning fire place

Picture taken from the front door that leads into living room. Again note the old re-constituted tiles (The odd looking thing in the corner is my bike stand)

The Mediteranean. This is where I have my daily swim: it's like slipping into a warm bath, heaven. Anyone feeling jealous?

The sun setting on another beautiful summers evening over the mountain range. Yes it's still like summer here and averaging 30c by day and approx 18 overnight: bliss