Tuesday, May 20, 2008

This won't be us

You're not allowed to be nude on the beaches of Cyprus.


Too devout is my best guess. Followed by too nasty a thought - especially with the million and one Brits flooding in via JetTz4Less and DeathRattleAir

Have read with some amusement that there have been several Germans arrested having defrocked close to the Baths of Aphroditie. The glare bouncing off their blue white bodies having alerted police and air traffic controllers both to their exact location.

Still despite a lack of Togs Off opportunities it's going to be a good trip - and we'll be leaving for the airport in about an hour (3.30 being plenty long enough for a 5.50 take-off especially when you already have your boarding passes and a belief that check in luggage is for losers)

Despite my 'check in bags' only rule though we're not Overhead crammers. It's a very American thing. Take one huge bag, too large to lift and them waddle down the aisle taking out eyes and crushing feet as you go before demanding help lifting the damn thing (note - if you can't lift it it's not CARRY ON) and bemoaning the size of the overheads.

Nope our carry on is carry on sized. Regulation weight. And packed beautifully.

So eight and a half hours to London, two hours to clear customs, change terminals, check in with Cyprus air and board our flight and then four and a half hours to the wrong side of the island where a man named George will give us the keys to a Corsa (or something)

Waaaa-hey (as Cheggers still says)

1 comment:

Anne-Marie Weeden said...

I spent three years growing up in Cyprus and have rather too vivid memories of a beach in the south round Pissouri where if us kids strolled down one end, tucked behind some rocks, we would invariably find chubby german men with too much jewellery, their large stomachs overhanging tiny willies.
It became a dare amongst us kids. We'd have to walk past the willies without losing it.
Fun and games....