Ah yes, a Lady L's bacon and halumi sandwich the morning after the night before.

Akrotiri means hard tack and gruel for me:yuk:. That was after an ocean of St Panteleimon:yuk: an inland sea of Kokkinelli:yuk: and an enforced rest which left me with a stripey sun tan courtesy of the bars on the window.

Hmmmm, LHR on the flightdeck before start-up.:) BTW, Where did they get the Bronto-porkchops from in the Akrotiri kebab houses???? :eek:
Thanks Akrotiri!

OAP

I often enjoyed the meals in the OM at Akrotiri, or Akronelli as it was affectionately known. During the summer I particularly enjoyed the salad and cold cut lunches, if only to balance the kebab, brandy sours, Keo beer, Mount Olympus red wine and kokinelli wine dinners off base!

Kokinelli - what an experience, until joining the RAF I had no idea that Cyprus imported Welsh wines! Faaboolous, isn't it? :E


PS: Have a look at this website here for some memories of Akrotiri. Includes (small) pics of the Akrotiri Arms and Kris Kebab.

Try the Polis (behind the Akrotiri village main drag)for great meze and, Kokkinelli.

OAP

Re kokinelli - the Limassol wine festival in one of the town parks was worth a visit. Your 5p (equivalent) entry fee got you a wine glass which you could have refilled at no extra charge as often as you wanted. The ornamental fish pond was drained for the occasion, and refilled with kokinelli. Naturally later in the evening there would be drunken squaddies splashing around in it trying to drink it dry!

I witnessed several paras falling over, as if pole-axed, after a session on Kokinelli at the Wine festival. They were drinking it straight from the carafe!

Don't knock the Kok!

Kokkinelli unobtainable?

Wonderful stuff - and which raised a question first PPRuNed some 15 years ago: https://www.pprune.org/military-avia...ens-stool.html ?

If there was ever a reason for leaving the EU, that's it.

Is it the kokkinelli that darkens the stool: I remember doing a trip to Djibouti from Khormaksar and coming back with several demi johns of Djibouti plonk. The next morning, Russ Martin (the squadron doc) was inundated with phone calls from the party goers who were convinced that they were bleeding to death.

I have often been drunk, I have often had hangovers, but I have never, ever had a hangover like those after a night on this 'wine' (and I use that word loosely).

Well, it wasn't also known as Pandemonium for nothing......

Kokinelli & 7Up, refreshing long drink.....:yuk:

Weren't Kokinelli and Pandemonium two different "evening wines"?

Back in the mid-seventies, the detachment boss decided on a mini dining-in night. There was a case of 12 bottles of Keo port in the cellar, with 11 still left. I would not be surprised if there are still 10 to this day! Not a great vintage.