With our plans for the day stymied by the weather we left the Mall and drove around finishing up at Debenhams, arriving in the rain and then, having perused the sale, leaving in sunshine!! I contacted Louise in Limassol to check on the weather there as we were only an hour away but she said it was still pouring down. She said that we had definitely made the right decision to postpone our trip.


The supermarkets now stock a limited range of bottled ales so generally John is able to get a few but he sadly misses the days when we would go to Asda or Tesco and get 4 bottles for a fiver!
Athos, who sadly lost his wife at the end of last year, is a chatty man so he engaged Rob and John in conversation so Di and I escaped to check out the flower shop next door and to watch the municipal workers pumping out the garden of the tyre shop opposite which was about 4 feet underwater!


We used to love this place when the old man used to run it - checked table cloths, filthy windows from the traffic outside, no menu and initially no toilets. I had been in the kitchen on several occasions as he struggled to explain what was on the menu for lunch!
Today I had the most fabulous green lentil dish, Rob and John opted for Afelia and Di had a chicken kebab. We were given plates of what at best could be described as a deconstructed salad, half an onion, half a lemon, some raw cabbage, olives, pickles, tomato and cucumber. Afterwards we had something like fridge cake. We were not disappointed, this was still the traditional place we remembered but brought up to date with nice decor, clean and well decorated toilets and clean windows!


It was here that we managed to see flamingos albeit in a craft shop! The woman told us to go and see a couple of places nearby that had been done up as part of the regeneration of that area and we thanked her for her time. Lots of the shops still close for several hours lunchtime - this still seems crazy to me particularly when businesses are struggling for trade and when tourists expect you to be open.


All in all we had a lovely day, not the day we had anticipated but it was good fun nonetheless and we get to do it all again in a couple of weeks when hopefully the weather will behave itself and we will get to see the flamingos after all.
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