Major Thom wrote:No not bored at all the speed I type can do what I have to do in 10 mins. Regarding giving people strength, do not feel the person stating they needs strength especially living where they do, and they also have all the moral support from the Luxor crowd too. It 5.35am I have been up since 4.00am showered and just waiting for my wife to get ready to start our daily 3 mile walk to Emba and back.
I have to admit though I do like a laugh before starting the daily good life, that's why you see my posts early in the morning and not in the evening. In the evening we are too busy out either dancing or enjoying a good meal at the many Taverna's.
Did you know over 5 million ex pats live on the island, most of them get on well together helping each other, organising events and including the local people, yesterday while relaxing in the evening with a JD and Coca Cola we encountered a rare sight one we have not seen for years, 9 aircraft in 2 hours coming into land a Paphos Airport, incredible. In July and August there were over 5M tourists visited the island. We gather the aircraft companies still want to fly here, we gather people from overseas see Cyprus as being safe. Maybe that is why over 250,000 ex pats live in Paphos alone contributing to the economy, providing many jobs supporting many business's. Very few places can boast that, and one place I can think of has seen its ex pat community fall from over 4000 to a couple of hundred in 5 years, and probably will fall again over the next five years. It just proves where one place has good ideas and goes for the tourist industry another place can shout about it, lie about it do nothing about it and still expect to do well.
Apparently not. These are the OFFICIAL expat numbers for Cyprus for 2017.
Cyprus Population 2017
1,189,303
Cyprus has an estimated population of 1.16 million in 2015, up from the 2011 census census of 839,000 and the 2011 estimate of 1.11 million.
Of the 1.16 million people in Cyprus, about 300,000 live in the north, although it's believed this number has climbed to 500,000, half of whom are Turkish settlers or Cypriot-born children of settlers. There is only one city in Cyprus with a population over 100,000. Limassol has a population of 101,000, with a metro area population of 185,000. Nicosia, the capital, is divided into the North (pop 61,000) and the South (pop 55,000).
Cyprus inhabitants are known as Cypriots. In 2001, the population was comprised of 77% Greek Cypriots, 18% Turkish and 5% other, with about 10,500 people of Russian origin in the nation. The Republic of
[Cyprus is also home to about 110,000 foreign permanent residents and between 10,000 and 30,000 undocumented illegal immigrants.
]Life is your's to do with as you wish- do not let other's try to control it for you. Count Dusak- 1345.
I am meeting a friend from the UK later who hasn't visited for a year I am waiting to see what her reaction to the price increases are.
wad. 
Experience is not what happens to you;