Mandy’s birthday bash

On a cold January evening, Mandy and I along with 15 friends went down to the Yialos restaurant in Pissouri bay to celebrate Mandy's birthday.

The Yialios is regarded as one of the finest fish restaurants in the area and all who attended agreed that the food, service and atmosphere were excellent.

We ended the evening by calling in The Red Fever for a few late night drinks and a few fun filled games of pool.

Happy Birthday Mandy !!

Building work.

As soon as I said to Mandy, "well at least we can be sure that we living in the heart of the village, no one will build in front of us", I knew I'd eat my words.

The New Year brought a Bulldozer, early morning noise and clouds of dust as they demolished an old house opposite us and a new house is being built.

Buffet with a view.

Our friends Wilf and Rona invited us along with a few friends to a New Year buffet at their house.

The house stands high on a hill at the far end of the village and has commanding views stretching from the Troodos mountains to the Akrotiri peninsula.

2008 A New Year, A New currency

A new year and a new currency comes into effect in Cyprus, out goes the Cypriot pound and in comes the Euro.

There is a lot of discussion on the Island about the pros and cons of the New currency...Time will tell.

Goodbye to 2007

Mandy attended the Christening of local twin babies at St Andrews Church. She thoroughly enjoyed her first Cypriot Christening.

We decided to end the year by spending a quiet New years Eve with Friends Steve, Mary, Matt, Sue and baby Luke. Steve cooked up a marvellous Turkey dinner.

At midnight we watched the firework show provided at the Columbia Hotel.

May we take this chance to wish all our visitors to the Blog a very Happy and Healthy New Year.

Flavs fly out.

On their final full day of their holiday, we took the Flavs around to Mike & Steph's house for "drinks and Nibbles". We had a great time swopping stories mostly involving South Wales.

All to soon it was time to tak Lisa, Lee and Pat back to the airport for their flight back to "The Diff" (Cardiff.) We had all enjoyed a great Christmas holiday.

Christmas Day

Pre dinner drinks were taken at the Pissouriana where a large crowd gathered to exchange festive greetings.

We then returned home for a superb Christmas dinner cooked by Mandy.

In the evening some friends called around to watch home made DVD’s and some daft game involving Bart Simpson.

Christmas eve

We drove into Limasssol for some last minute shopping and to show the Flavs around the town.

In the evening we strolled down to the 1911 club to wish Theo our best wishes and then moved onto the Sparti pub where a roaring log fire kept the old place cosy.

Christmas Sunday

Along with the Flavs and Steve & Mary we went up to the Hillview restaurant for a pre Christmas meal and to celebrate Mary's birthday.

As ever the meal and service were superb, Lisa even got her chocolate cake.

The Flavs fly in with Boss News

We were thrilled at the arrival of 3 members of our family who flew in from the UK to Paphos airport.

Pat, Lisa & Lee arrived from Cardiff to spend Christmas with us. Lisa brought News that she had managed to get us tickets for Bruce Springsteen's Concert in Cardiff next June

A taste of Africa

We drove into Limassol to attend Mandy's works Christmas party which was held at the Takokkalakia restaurant (www.takokkalakia.com) which has a unique décor and African ambience.

Twenty five invited guests were treated to a superb meal, fine wines and ending with the drinking of flaming Sambrucas.

Fancy dress party 2007

Our friends Tina & Paul threw a Christmas fancy dress party at their house in Pissouri, a suckling pig and a huge buffet was supplied for the numerous guests.

Father Christmas was also there to hand out gifts to the children.

There was a good turn out of costumes and your Blog hosts won first prize dressed as Lily savage and Elvis.

Everyone who attened had a whale of a time, but the question remains, why did Steve arrive home wearing only one shoe ???

Carols in the square.

On a cold evening we strolled in the village square to listen to local residents and children sing traditional Christmas carols. The local mulled wine and mince pies helped to keep us Warm.

Speeches by local dignitaries was followed by draw of the grand raffle. Our friends Steve & Mary had a good evening by winning 2 prizes including a meal at a local fish restaurant. We then returned home for a spicy home made curry.

“Plastic bag trees“.

We visited Giles and Val Day's house to attend the launch party of Valerie's first book "Plastic bag trees".

The book is a tale of everyday village life in Pissouri and other Cyprus phenomena. Val is Hon secretary of the Paphos writer's group.

Slimmers xmas party.

The Christmas party season started with the Sunshine slimmer's xmas party. This year the event was held at the Hillview restaurant in Pissouri.

A superb traditional turkey meal capped off an evening where everyone was in a festive mood.

Charity fun Night

The Pissorianna was the venue for a Charity fun night to raise funds for the Pissouri Cyclepaths group who are planning to cycle around Cyprus in aid of the Paphos hospice.

The evening’s events included quizzes, virtual tenpin bowling, pool, guess Big Paul’s weight and a Grand Raffle.

Andy Evans took the honours as he volunteered to have his hair chest removed by waxing, it looked painful.

More info about the Charity ride at

http://pissouricyclepaths.googlepages.com/home

Steve’s Birthday Bash

Our friend, Steve, celebrated his birthday by hosting a meze meal at The Two Friends restaurant.

Fourteen people turned up to wish the "Birthday Boy" all the best, but we still could'ent get his real age out of him.

The only disappointment of the evening was that the Sparkling candles on his birthday cake did'ent sparkle.

A quiet evening turned into a long one as we moved onto the Pissouriana for a few late night drinks.