A week on holiday is just not long enough as today we said goodbye to Laura and Mark and it seems like they have only just arrived. They promise to return and we know they mean it and we will look forward to it - they are fun and easy company. They had to be out of their accommodation at the Spa by 11.00am and they went down to Paps to stock up on a few things to take home before arriving at ours.
It was another lovely day and we decided that we would have a late lunch as they weren't due down to the airport until later this evening and then as it happens the incoming flight from Cardiff was late coming in so they knew they were going to be late leaving which is pants when you aren't going to be arriving until the wee small hours and Mark's Dad was picking them up so it was going to be a late one for him as well.
John and Mark ventured up to the cheese factory in the village in the hopes of getting some halloumi to take home - this is no problem if it is vacu-packed. They had been up previously to the cheese place that never closes only to find it closed but apparently this was because of a family wedding so there was no such trouble today as Maria was there and they got some halloumi and also some feta which we haven't tried from there before because initially when they opened they didn't make it.
So their last lunch on the island was a fairly traditional one with pittas, lounza and halloumi and a selection of salads and dips which we sat outside and ate. This suits Laura down to the ground being a vegetarian (obviously she doesn't eat the lounza) and Mark is and always has been a bit of a foodie so he is in his element. We are now faced with the conundrum of finding a traditional Cypriot barbeque for sale in the UK!!! For this we will enlist the help of Lakis who says they are readily available around where he lives - Argy said any Cypriot shop in the UK should have them and then we pointed out that they were a bit thin on the ground in Yeovil, in fact anywhere in the South West thinking about it!
We had taken Laura and Mark around so that Laura could see how Lakis and Argy had modernised their three bed villa on our estate - although the houses are all 'similar' those that are owned and regularly occupied have all been done up so very differently. Lakis and Argy's is a brilliant 'lock up and leave' but still with style and personality. Mark things something like that would suit Laura and him down to the ground and they have friends out shortly who are looking for their own bolt-hole in the sun.
With time to kill before they left for the airport the poker table came out again and John is still completely discombobulated by Laura's tactics or apparent lack of them and she just relishes the fact that for a large percentage of the time it works. I was technically the winner today because at some point during the proceedings I went ''all-in'' against Mark, won and then never got the right chips back!!! I didn't complain though because it is only a game - something we had to keep reminding John who in his exasperation said it was more like playing Bingo. God that man is so competitive!!
It is probably a bit too early as I write this to know whether they arrived safe and sound - I am sure they did and are sleeping off their travels. Until the next time Mark and Laura - take care of one another and see you soon xxx
It was another lovely day and we decided that we would have a late lunch as they weren't due down to the airport until later this evening and then as it happens the incoming flight from Cardiff was late coming in so they knew they were going to be late leaving which is pants when you aren't going to be arriving until the wee small hours and Mark's Dad was picking them up so it was going to be a late one for him as well.
John and Mark ventured up to the cheese factory in the village in the hopes of getting some halloumi to take home - this is no problem if it is vacu-packed. They had been up previously to the cheese place that never closes only to find it closed but apparently this was because of a family wedding so there was no such trouble today as Maria was there and they got some halloumi and also some feta which we haven't tried from there before because initially when they opened they didn't make it.
So their last lunch on the island was a fairly traditional one with pittas, lounza and halloumi and a selection of salads and dips which we sat outside and ate. This suits Laura down to the ground being a vegetarian (obviously she doesn't eat the lounza) and Mark is and always has been a bit of a foodie so he is in his element. We are now faced with the conundrum of finding a traditional Cypriot barbeque for sale in the UK!!! For this we will enlist the help of Lakis who says they are readily available around where he lives - Argy said any Cypriot shop in the UK should have them and then we pointed out that they were a bit thin on the ground in Yeovil, in fact anywhere in the South West thinking about it!We had taken Laura and Mark around so that Laura could see how Lakis and Argy had modernised their three bed villa on our estate - although the houses are all 'similar' those that are owned and regularly occupied have all been done up so very differently. Lakis and Argy's is a brilliant 'lock up and leave' but still with style and personality. Mark things something like that would suit Laura and him down to the ground and they have friends out shortly who are looking for their own bolt-hole in the sun.
With time to kill before they left for the airport the poker table came out again and John is still completely discombobulated by Laura's tactics or apparent lack of them and she just relishes the fact that for a large percentage of the time it works. I was technically the winner today because at some point during the proceedings I went ''all-in'' against Mark, won and then never got the right chips back!!! I didn't complain though because it is only a game - something we had to keep reminding John who in his exasperation said it was more like playing Bingo. God that man is so competitive!!
It is probably a bit too early as I write this to know whether they arrived safe and sound - I am sure they did and are sleeping off their travels. Until the next time Mark and Laura - take care of one another and see you soon xxx
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