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I would imagine hotels, even crew rooms, are expensive in the tourist hotspots.

Nicosia is the only (official) crossing point

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For reasons that make zero sense to anyone outside our operations department, we stay in Nicosia when we fly to Larnaca. The commute is a bastid, especially after a 4 am wake up, but it does afford the opportunity to cross the border just because you can

Cisco. Again.

So we have an issue that takes servers offline one a drive in a mirror fails.  They are aware of the issue, but seemingly don't want to fix it, blaming it on Marvel.

I don't care who's fault it is, this has been known about for at least 3 years that I know of, and as the shit came from Cisco, they need to fix it, or replace the Marvel components with one that doesn't crash all the bloody time.


They are my nemesis, much like how that DTM fella loves Lucky Goldstar

Given its very strategic location in the east Med, much like Malta's further West, it has been invaded more times than we could mention, or even know about. Romans, Greeks, Ottoman, Byzantine, Brits. They've all had a piece of it

In living memory, it was British (as part of the Empire), then made it's own sovereign state, bar the 2 UK bases, then a bit of a coup in the 70s caused some concerns with the Turks, who promptly tried to invade.  They only managed to invade the north, and so we have a Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus - not universally recognised by all countries - and Cyprus being the rest, excluding Akrotiri and Dhekelia which are the 2 bases. And a UN line between them, as the UN think this is a good hoot, and a great place to get sent.

As part of this, there was a bit of India/Pakistan type separation, with the Greeks being moved south and the Turks being moved North, despite them previously living side by side happily until this point.  Additionally, Turkey active migrated people from Turkey to Cyprus to re-enforce their hold on the territory, which has caused ongoing friction, more so on the eastern side it seems.

https://cyprus-mail.com/2026/03/29/cyprus-an-unsinkable-aircraft-carrier-no-longer

This popped up and made interesting reading...

Nothing controversial about that, apart from some inaccuracies.  Yes, any Western base on "foreign soil" will mean risk for the country that base is in during conflict, but that works both ways, although in this case, the UK Cypriot bases are actually British soil*


*until such times as the wet dream of a PM we have decide to return the bases to Cyprus, and rent them back for £100b a year...

There's that of course

It popped up on my Google feed. I hadn't really considered how modern Cyprus came about, so found it an insight into the island rather than being a point of controversy

And it's nice to see different takes on things from a non UK perspective sometimes...

https://cyprus-mail.com/2026/03/29/cyprus-an-unsinkable-aircraft-carrier-no-longer

This popped up and made interesting reading...

Nothing controversial about that, apart from some inaccuracies.  Yes, any Western base on "foreign soil" will mean risk for the country that base is in during conflict, but that works both ways, although in this case, the UK Cypriot bases are actually British soil*


*until such times as the wet dream of a PM we have decide to return the bases to Cyprus, and rent them back for £100b a year...

No need to replace the pre-starting cat sensors if they aren't faulty.

Even at current prices, my 5.5 litre V8 costs less to fuel than your payments. I can live with that.

https://cyprus-mail.com/2026/03/29/cyprus-an-unsinkable-aircraft-carrier-no-longer

This popped up and made interesting reading...

An unexpected email from Octopus Energy last week....

Your fixed tariff from April 1st:

Electricity tariff (Intelligent Octopus Go 12M Fixed):
Peak unit rate: 27.41 p / kWh
Off-peak unit rate: 3.49 p / kWh
Standing charge: 43.82 p / day

So to fully charge from empty (not that I've ever come close) as I tend to top up from between 40-55% depending on my driving that day, it costs me a grand total of £2.82. + maybe a little for drop off in charge. They even offer the "off peak" rate to my car, any time of the day, if there is a dip in demand. I just leave it plugged in and set the charge level I want by a certain time the next day.

It means my return trip to work in London and back to Surrey costs around 60 pence and the i4 is far from the most efficient EV on the road.