Epi Village Inn is a lovely place in the centre of the village, now run by a Husband & Wife team, Husband (native) - Chef, & wife (Ginger Cockney) - Manager. It is there that I was served what has now become my own signature dish - Beef medalions in Roquefort sauce avec mushrooms et frittes.
It's right posh now. Shame about the brothel across the street (not anymore)
Not to be confused with the Epi Village Pub down the hill on the main road.
Free Kokkinelli? Don't make me laugh!
How do you think they paid for a church this size in a small village?
I can only speak from the early eighties onwards, but 'free kokkinelli' was always based on one free bottle per two people. Of course, if there was a big do, negotiations could take place, but don't insult their intelligence!
Maybe the Cypriots were the first to invent 'Loss Leaders', 30 years ahead of Tesco.
I remember standing on a table in the courtyard in Sylvanas, offering my cigarette lighter up to the rafia roof, demanding free Flamin' Filfar. But it turned into a 'Climb up on Sunshine Mountain' and the table sank down to ground level, once the whole squadron had joined me.
Altogether now:-
'We're climbin' up sunshine mountain........'