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  Randal and I spent this weekend visiting Heidi and Kalle Trautmann at their beautiful home near Girne.  We had a wonderful time!  We arrived late Saturday morning and left early Monday morning and I took almost 300 photos over the two …

I’m writing this email while Randal is in the galley cooking up a spaghetti dinner using some of the ground meat from the butcher. I’m not really a spaghetti person, but this evening I’m starving from the 4 hour walk in the hills this morning I d…

  Our friends Julia and Rob are off to Thailand for some sun and tropical warm weather and they have kindly loaned us their car.  Today we made good use of it driving to Lefkosa/Nicosia to the Turkish Embassy to clear up the motorbike mess cr…

Hi Everyone,
  I want you to meet two really nice very interesting people.  Heidi and Kalle Trautmann….
Ru
  It was serendipity and some left-over reference skills that led me to Heidi Trautmann’s website.  Heidi is an a…

  For some reason our satellite TV is now working so I could watch Once Upon A Time this past Friday night.  The US is ahead of Cyprus in episodes, but I’ve only seen about 3 of them so they are all new to me.  It was the episode w…

  A special congratulations to my pals at the Roanoke County Public Library and the grand opening of the new South County Library.  Wish I could have been there.  Libraries are priceless, but a library with a coffee shop, doubly priceles…

Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun
(Hemingway’s Restaurant & Bar Karpaz Gate Marina)

Happy New Year from North Cyprus
For those of you who don’t know, this is the famous Roanoke, VA traveling fruitcake. It began its travels in 1999 when John Edwards a…

I went to my Turkish lessons today though apparently they had been canceled for Christmas!  Somehow I missed that when it was discussed at last week’s lesson.  Denise came to the restaurant, saw me there and very kindly gave me a lesson…

  Earlier this evening we had wind gusts of 40knots and the wind now is still strong enough to rock the boat making it a bit hard to type.  This morning, I had managed to get in a walk up to Sipahi before the rain; but the laundry, several pa…

It’s Thursday and the weather cooperated so we could do our weekly Deks walk with Denise.  It was uphill the whole way, but the view at the top was worth it.  This afternoon/evening was a lovely party on Surrey Rose owned by David and J…