House of Mather Pareklisia

We woke early as today is moving day, Stitch was fed and watered, walked and entertained then it was time to finish off the last of the sweeping and sorting ready for the movers to arrive at 9.30am.

Mike and Mike from Orbit arrived and were given a tour through so as not to pack anything that they shouldn’t, and then the packing began, I quite like this moving malarkey when someone else does it all for you.  Stitch was quite funny as he is a very sociable chappy until someone new arrives then he goes into scared rabbit routine, he kept his distance for the two Mikes and when they used there tape to seal the boxes the noise sent him scurrying into his crate.  Angelos arrived for a cuppa before we left Kolossi bringing with him sausage rolls from the UK, Greggs best were packed into the freezer bags and then it was time to head to Pareklisia, I left first as I needed to be there for the Cyta technician that was arriving to fix the internet and TV system.

The two Mikes arrived with our belongings and started placing them in the desired locations, and my beloved and I started to unpack, we could have got the Mikes to help but I really like to deal with placement of belongings myself, so that’s what we did.  Stitch was as much use as a chocolate fire guard, he melted into the house and only came out if he thought he should be getting some attention.

Cyta turned up and two Cypriots started to verbally attack me about having no cables to the house, my beloved jumped right down their throats and they backed off out the house and were dealt with accordingly, thank god my beloved was around because they were definitely not the kind of people I like to deal with, rude, loud and very aggressive.  My beloved called Marios who is the home owners accountant and right hand man, and after he spoke with the Cyta guys things were put in place peacefully, I wasn’t quite  sure what place they were put but it transpired that Marios would organise for his engineer to come and link us up to his internet, wow it’s handy having someone that important as a neighbour.  So Marios came down at 4.30 with the engineer and they organised for us to be linked up tomorrow morning.  Marios and his wife Stella arrived later in the afternoon and organised the pool cleaner to turn up immediately as the pool needed cleaning,  so when they left the pool guy arrived, Michael was his name and he began cleaning the pool, and said he would be back in the morning to continue and do a back wash and we should be swimming by Sunday, yeah right unless it's bath temperature I am not going in.

Once we had the House of Mather pretty much organised as we wanted it we decided we had better eat as my beloved was fading away in front of my eyes, so we headed to the Park Bistro just up the hill where we took one mixed grill and one chicken kebab, and very nice they were too, my beloved’s mixed grill had Sheftalia included, now I have never eaten this dish before but I would definitely eat it again, it was stupendous, in fact I think next time I go I will just ask for Sheftalia in a pitta because it was cooked just how  I like it, slightly blackened on the outside but beautifully tender on the inside, not fatty and no gristle both of which turn my stomach.

So our first night in our new house and our new bed which we discovered has an inbuilt light hidden in the headboard, we fell to sleep in the comfort of our new surroundings, and the best part of it???? The hounds of the Baskerville are miles away and a peaceful night ensued.