
Then getting on my old hobby horse of promoting the wonderful TRNC products for tourists I went on a tour of the Duty Free Shops to see what I could find; I wasn’t disappointed. I found one shop with SAFA Brandy on sale. and also Lord Jim Gin. Then I saw the prices: brandy 6 Euros and the gin 6.5 Euros. DUTY FREE? In Starling they cost 6TL and 6.5TL respectively as any self respecting drunkard would know. I asked if the prices were perhaps wrong, maybe the currency had been switched? “No. That’s the price. We don’t sell much though.” I wonder why?
So not wanting to spend my money I went back to watching the cleaners. 5 entered stage left, 1 with a big mop and 4 having an animated conversation with the “mopper.” As usual the rubbish, which was beginning to mount up, was pushed into a pile by boarding gate 4. Once there, the obviously exhausted sweepers, sat down and continued their discussion. They had, after all walked from the public toilets to gate 4 in one stint. Maybe the North Face of the Eiger next? I had a feeling by the way they looked at me that they had only done this because someone had told them about my last article for NCFP
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