Epi Village Inn
 

Sir Peter,

great to hear its still trading. It was considered to be an upmarket venue even in 1984. Sent you a PM

SOSL

..... minor thread drift is usually entertaining, but major thread drift is confusing and defeats the purpose....

SOSLorry to have "drifted" into your private thread about brandy sours, ammunition belts and, oh yes, meze ......:rolleyes:

Jack

Alwazinit

Did you see the curious Union Flag that was flown by some tourists on the harbour entance? Made from a white bed sheet, sky blue and pink beach towels. Clever old stick my Ma!

At the risk of upsetting SOSL as he sips his umpteenth ersatz brandy sour, no I did not but the 'chip of the "Nelsonic Block"' told me about it - glad you all got our safely, albeit negative cases!:ok:

Jack

SPHLC

Is there anything you have stepped on that hasn't collapsed....ladders, tables...... how long is the list? :}

You used to pay for the first bottle and the rest came free and they still managed to make a profit on that!

UJ & alwayz
 

Sorry, guys, didn't mean to offend. You're right, UJ it was a stupid post.

SOS

Would reciting Old MacDonald had a Farm, in Greek be within thread boundaries?

It's certainly got me free kokkinelli over the years (although there is no such thing as free kokkinelli)

SOSL....
 

....you realise, of course, we all will want to know what you eventually feed your poor guests with in the final event. (And the photos to prove it!). Any hard decisions so far?

The Ancient Mariner

Sorry, guys, didn't mean to offend ....

SOSL .... and absolutely no offence was taken!:ok: As I'm sure you are aware, the Military Aircrew threads are very often a sort of "Service Jet Blast" in any case and, in view of Alwayzinit's experiences in Kyrenia, I felt it was worth filling in some of the background to his adventures - and bring in the little known tale of how well ANDROMEDA's Flight Commander had done.

Probably the most extraordinary aspect of this was that, presumably because of the perceived need to hush up the Turkish friendly fire sinking of their own ship, Ian McKechnie was never awarded the AFC he thoroughly deserved.

Jack

This is not so much thread drift as full speed ahead!

Do you remember Neddie's Bar in one end of Movements shed, where nervous passengers were trying to work out whether we were the inbound crew wrapping ourselves around the Keo, or the outbound crew fortifying ourselves for the pain to come!! Albert was a noisy bugger.

Eventually we all got told to shove off by the staish and couldn't do that anymore so repaired to Blocks 100, 101 and 102 if I remember right (it WAS 35 years ago).

Which, IFRC were the luxury air-conditioned blocks, usually reserved for Air Support transit crews, while we lower mortals went into non-air-conditioned quarters.

On one famous occasion an unwise loady called out "look at the tanker trash" from the door of his luxury billet as a Victor crew traipsed to their block after a hot sweaty trail. Unfortunately for him a well-known red headed old sqn ldr nav was on the crew, and he wasn't taking that from some jumped up young sergeant. Aforementioned loady found himself ejected from his cushy room within the hour and some lucky tanker guy moved in in his place.

Gone into warp drive now - sorry!

You could have sent Pete Langan to talk him to death!!

And . . . ? We always thought you were roughy-toughy types :cool: who enjoyed discomfort.

My version of a Cypriot Meze
 

Beags, in a roundabout way, reminded me that I hadn't lived up to my promise on an old thread. He makes a distinction between Meze and Kebab but it would be difficult to tell the difference when it was piled onto your plate.

So here it is: Thanks for all inputs and this is what I finally dished up to my mates:

lots of stale (village) bread
lots of grapes
lots of Choriatiki salata
Lots of (really nasty) olives

Tahini
Tzatziki
Skordalia
Taramosalata

Pourgouri (Bulghar wheat with onions and tomatoes)

Halloumi & Luntza
Grilled liver

Pork Stiphado

Kleftico
More Kleftico

Koupes (deep fried minced lamb with mint and garlic in Bulghar wheat)

More grapes

A surprising amount of Cypriot wine and brandy (including Brandy Sours), bought in the UK.

Fruit salad and ice cream (the only non-cypriot element; Cyps ate enormous amounts of really good fruit but fruit salad was a prissy Brit thing and Cypriot ice cream (gelata) wasn't that good).

Mini thread drift
 

Mini thread drift...but does anyone remember the (bit dodgy;) )waiter in the OM who also sold shoes back in the 70's and 80's..I think his name was Chris too but not the same dodgy ;) Chris of Keebab fame. I REALLY could go a chriskebab now.

Which was the restaurant where the two 101 Sqn chappies did the creeping line ahead attack (in green bags as I heard it) to sink their teeth into a young lass's bum only to find out the next day that she was an MP's daughter..?

It was George - "Please, sir, sit here sir, yes please. All officers' food tonight excellent, sirs!"

He did behave a little light in the loafers, as you say!

Kitsune, there was indeed a serial bum-biter on 101 who got himself deeply in the guano after biting the bottom of a young OTC lass at ASI. Then went to Virgin where he wasn't terribly popular with the hosties, I gather.....

"Good eevning Sir! Welcome Offeesairs Mess, Ruff Akrotiri! You like nice Greek toss salad?"

Yes, that was George alright!

Tip top, number 1 Officer Mess.
Welcome, the Officers!

Good old George.

After the meal at Chris' or downtown Limassol, saying to the staff:
"O filos mu tha plirossi" ["my friend will pay"]
...and doing a runner :rolleyes: