GREETINGS! From xxxxx in TRNC!

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
06/06/2011 11:36

▶ [ http://is.gd/CsDiA1/keywords_greetings_01_from_trnc ].

Zoots


Joined: 05/02/2011
Posts: 669

Message Posted:
06/06/2011 12:25

Good to see the Turkish flag appears to be missing from the castle.

Pugwash


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 1797

Message Posted:
06/06/2011 12:53

Of course you would prefer the Greek one wouldn't you

andre514


Joined: 05/10/2010
Posts: 763

Message Posted:
06/06/2011 13:10

message 2 zoots:



sssh, don't remind them, or they will immediately install one!

or even two: the trnc banner, as well as a red rag to your "bull"



at least you are very unlikely to ever see a blue eu flag:

as president sarkozey definitively remarked in a 2007 interview

turkish eu membership is "inappropriate" (sic)

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
06/06/2011 16:02

@ msg 2, "zoots": (...) Good to see the Turkish flag appears to be missing from the castle. (...)

For you or "pot and kettle"...

▶ [ http://is.gd/jGA3kf/keywords_zoots_pot_and_kettle ].

andre514


Joined: 05/10/2010
Posts: 763

Message Posted:
06/06/2011 16:52

let's say zoots, you are "successful" in your campaign

to make some of the ex-pats or tc's uncomfortable or angry



but what is the outcome, we may well ask:



will it destroy property investment in the trnc?

unlikely, as in most other places in the med it is moribund,

except for the hard-nosed professionals looking for bargains



will it persuade turkey to cast away its investment in the trnc?



maybe the island-born tc's will rise up in favour of south cyprus?



perhaps you are belling the cat over the north doing a reunfication

deal, and turkey meanwhile overcoming all french and german

resistance and being invited into the eu?



...it wouldn't be so bad if you genuinely believed all of the stuff

you type, but I remain to be convinced:

to me, it looks like a hate campaign unlikely to be consumated

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
06/06/2011 17:19

And I only uploaded a nice picture (I think) as a "greetings photo" from TRNC..! And look what happened from post nr. 2..!

So, back on topic: ▶ [ http://is.gd/CsDiA1/keywords_greetings_01_from_trnc ].

Clarissa2


Joined: 12/06/2009
Posts: 1476

Message Posted:
06/06/2011 19:23

A breathtaking view from the very top :



http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/228/img0887wf.jpg/

Zoots


Joined: 05/02/2011
Posts: 669

Message Posted:
06/06/2011 20:21

Pugwash: "Of course you would prefer the Greek one wouldn't you."

Get serious. I've said many times the only place for foreign flags in Cyprus is over embassies.

You are kidding, aren't you?

Zoots


Joined: 05/02/2011
Posts: 669

Message Posted:
06/06/2011 20:26

andre msg 6,

You should know me better than that. It's not a "hate campaign" in the slightest. It's an entertaining and light-hearted attempt to redress the balance on a forum where many members are, shall we say, educationally challenged about the history of Cyprus and incapable of rational discussion to boot. Very easy to manipulate, in other words. That's why so many of the poor fools were shafted left, right and centre and in some cases are still asking for more.

Zoots


Joined: 05/02/2011
Posts: 669

Message Posted:
06/06/2011 20:29

Anyway, three cheers for whoever managed to tear down the Turkish flag. It has no place on any castle in Cyprus as I'm sure you'd be the first to agree, DC.

Clarissa2


Joined: 12/06/2009
Posts: 1476

Message Posted:
06/06/2011 20:36

Re : Msg 9-11,



Zoots,

Seall sin. (Msg 8)

Abair sealladh brèagha! ( And not a flag in sight)

Scoty


Joined: 23/05/2010
Posts: 846

Message Posted:
06/06/2011 20:37

Msg 10 - interested - 'the history of Cyprus'.

not your personal view - the truth.

DutchCrusader



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Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
06/06/2011 20:46

@ msg 11, "zoots": (...) the Turkish flag. It has no place on any castle in Cyprus as I'm sure you'd be the first to agree, DC. (...)

▶ As a regular visitor of the castles in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus I was never annoyed by the flags of Turkey and the TRNC (Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus). And as you may have guessed: I'm not going to discuss my point of view - i.e. not with you.

andre514


Joined: 05/10/2010
Posts: 763

Message Posted:
06/06/2011 21:09

dc,



thanks for a very nice photo of buffavento,

I have still to visit there



it seems to me that kantara is less visited,

being in the "wild east" of the province

but the place seemed a bit less precipitous,

and as our american cousins would say,

there is a lot of "history" thereabouts too

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
06/06/2011 21:43

@ msg 15, andre514: I have some spectacular pictures of Kantara - keep watching the next [ GREETINGS! ] threads!



Statistics: here is where the visitors of this thread live (i.e. the ones that clicked on the link in msg 1):

▶ [ http://www.allcrusades.com/BB_pics/greetings_01_visits_by_country.jpg ]

Zoots


Joined: 05/02/2011
Posts: 669

Message Posted:
06/06/2011 21:46

Clarissa,

'S math a rinn thu! ;)

Pugwash


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 1797

Message Posted:
06/06/2011 21:47

DC for Zoots,



"@ msg 11, "zoots": (...) the Turkish flag. It has no place on any castle in Cyprus as I'm sure you'd be the first to agree, DC. (...) "



Then why do we see the Greek flag everywhere in the RoC ?



On all public buildings and sometimes without the RoC flag.

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
07/06/2011 12:40

Another nice picture, taken from the highest level of Buffavento Castle (photo © Clarissa2):

▶ [ http://www.allcrusades.com/BB_pics/IMG_0879_72.jpg ].

suzi1951


Joined: 14/02/2010
Posts: 191

Message Posted:
07/06/2011 14:27

DC, thanks for wonderful photos. I have not been to the castle - yet!

dizzycows


Joined: 12/05/2009
Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
07/06/2011 19:33

These castles are so gorgeous, the scenery up to them is simply lovely. We visit these castles every time we are over, and never get bored with the old history of them,.....



Take a picnic and binoculars, the peace is outstanding...