Tuesday 21st November 2017

I’ve probably covered most of our lives in Cyprus in previous blogs, so if I repeat stuff you have already read about I apologise. I just don’t fancy reading back through all my old stuff to see what I have and haven’t already covered.

After the first 3 months being in Cyprus we settled down to getting to enjoy our lives over there. Hales was happy being able to work from home, being able to have a coffee break in or by the side of the pool probably helped! I was learning how to properly maintain swimming pools working with Martin, plus other bits of property maintenance he needed help with.

Our 2 cats were getting settled to life there, they were both coping really well even with the extra heat. I was doing more scuba diving with Emil and thoroughly enjoying it, even got the opportunity to help him a little with teaching other’s.

With the little bit of money I was earning, and Hales wages we were managing fine. We weren’t loaded but had enough to pay the bills and live, plus we had enough to have the occasional night out as well. It was turning out that we seemed to have definitely made the right decision to try a new life in Cyprus.

My MS was still not very noticeable at that time, I had stopped taking medication when we moved over there as I would have had to pay for it. It wouldnt have been cheap and luckily stopping it didnt seem to cause any problems.

The rest of the first year we just got settled into our new lives and nothing much really happened. At the end of that first year we ended up having to move to a different villa, still in the same village but a bit bigger and definitely better.

It had 3 ensuite bedrooms, a huge balcony and a nice secluded garden. It was just round the corner from the village shop, and 5 minutes walk to the beach! That was without doubt the first of the dream homes we lived in while in Cyprus!

Obviously the rent for that place was more than the first one, but we could just about afford it and still live. I was working pretty much full time for Martin by then so we had enough money coming in.

We had acquired another cat at the first villa, we called her Cookie. She had been dumped outside the villa, obviously somebody had noticed we had cats and decided we would probably look after her. I had planned on sending her to a place I had heard stray cats were looked after, but when I heard some of the stories about the place I just couldn’t do it!