You may have noticed there was something of a blank here at Lucid Ephemera for a few weeks while I went off and did festive things and had a holiday. More details on Italians in puffy jackets and wild boar salami follow in the next few weeks. In the meantime, I hope all of you [...]
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2010 and 2011, thank you and hello
Posted in Aleppo, archaeology, architecture, Australia, autumn, Berlin, bread, British colonial mansions, cathedrals, chocolate, Christmas, churches, Crete, Cretins, Cyprus, Damascus, day trips, deer, Dodgy taxi drivers, driving, elbow, England, expat, fleas, food, Germany, Greece, history, Italy, Liverpool, manor houses, markets, Morocco, mosques, museums, odd hotels, Ottomans, Phillipine overseas domestic workers, post offices, Recalcitrant stereos, rowing, shopping, singing, smuggling, summer, Sunday, Syria, The Cyprus Question, The Mediterranean Middle Lane, tombs, tourism, travel, Turkey, Uncategorized, Venetians, Volkswagens, Volkswagons, weather, winter, wordless, work, working from home, Xania on January 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Snowed Under
Posted in driving, weather, winter on December 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
For those of you who have been down a mine for the last week, Britain is in the grip of extreme weather. Five days ago we woke to an unexpected covering of snow, and the temperature hasn’t risen above freezing since. Instead, we’ve had more snow. And more snow. Lots of it. Funnily enough, the [...]
Cretans, Cretins and Aphrodisiac Crustaceans
Posted in archaeology, Crete, Cretins, driving, Greece, Recalcitrant stereos, The Mediterranean Middle Lane, Volkswagens on August 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This morning we went to visit an archaeological site in east Crete currently being dug by a local research institute. This summer I’ve had tours of lots of trenches containing the foundations of lots of buildings, and after a while they do start to look like a lot of dusty, stony holes in the ground. [...]
Driving Me Nuts
Posted in Cyprus, driving, expat, travel on July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Driving in Cyprus continues to entertain and frustrate me in equal measure. I’ve written before about Cypriot drivers’ disdain for speed limits, and in many ways they have good reason. Often, the speed limit drops to 30kph around roundabouts, which would grind traffic to a halt were it observed. Fortunately it is not, ever. At [...]
