At first when i came here i was negatively surprised about so many things... some examples...
1. Banks and postoffices are open monday-friday only till 12.30 ...but i like to sleep long...
Shops up in a town (paphos is devided in 2, kato-paphos and pano-paphos, up and down) are closed on wednesday and saturday afternoons (after 12.30) and closed all sundays ofcourse. So...me stupid...not local... went walking up to the town ( which is like 30 min) to do some shopping on wednesday........ oh i was so angry! what's up with those wednesdays?
2. they don't make money transfers here! you can't pay your bills through transfers. i dont know if they even have internet bank here, as i never needed an account here. normally when you get paid they give you a check and you have to go to a bank with that....and banks are open till 12.30 ONLY, as i already mentioned.... it's like an evil ring against me. and if you wanna pay your electricity bill you have to go up to the town...to a place which a person like me is not likely to find...so you have to get someone local to come with you. anyway....to pay the bill...you have to go to 'where the hell i know' ...and that place is ofcourse open only till 12.30. and as a rule of humanity everybody leave paying their bills to the last minute, right?! so can you imagine...there is only one place to pay that damn bill and there's always too many people who wanna pay it at the same time as me. so can you imagine those cues???!!!! my god!! everytime i'm there i say to myself...'when r u people gonna come out of stone age'?
3.the transportation. there is an inside town busline, the last bus is 8 in the evening...luckily. But to get outside of the town...you have to take travel express. it's like 'marsa' or 'marsruut takso' in tallinn. anyway they are small bus taxis... but you have to call them and book a seat first!!! nice huh?! and they don't go everywhere...only to some closer, bigger towns. for example you can't go to Ayia Napa. And yet it's not so far,only 2 hours of car drive. The only way is to go to some travel agency which organises bus tours.
Basically...if you live in Cyprus , and you don't have a car...you are fucked! (sorry for the choice of words).
so many things that make me wonder how the hell did Cyprus get in EU?!
But when you are here for 7 months..like me...you get used to it...
There's more pros than cons
4 comments:
I love the way you write, Elli ...
Wish you well and an ever lasting blog ...
Best to you.
Shaan
Hahahahaha! HEY! So WoW looks like you are having a LITTLE fun ;) Miss ya! OH, and Bye the Way... isn't it cool to see that even Estonia has So many Wonderful Things we take for granted ;) Like Money transfers... America started Money transferring and Pay Bills Online WAY After Estonia. Eestimaa is Totally Looked UpTo by Americans who know of the Litle place because of how well its doing compared to the rest of the world...As You seem to have noticed ;)
Hey you! miss ya too...miss my schoolmates...
about the development of estonia...i got a good joke about it today. will post it
Hi Elli,
Great Blog! I too live in Paphos....and you are so right!!! I have lived here for 7 years now and i have kind of got used to the life here. But yeah shops closing early is still an annoyance!!! However i will let you know that you can pay all bills online thought internet banking!!!!! I would go crazy if not!!! Continue the great blogging!!
All the best and happy new year!!!!!!!
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