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Holiday in Cyprus (6): Southern Nicosia
June 29th, 2018 by Roger Darlington
After three days touring the Turkish north of Cyprus, today (Friday) the four of us on the North & South package left behind in Kyrenia the four signed up for the North Only package and started three days in the Greek south of the island. Whereas yesterday we had visited the northern part of the […]
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Holiday in Cyprus (5): Northern Nicosia
June 28th, 2018 by Roger Darlington
On the third day of the northern part of our Cyprus trip (Thursday), we drove to the capital which is just half an hour away. Known as Lefkosia in Greek and Lefkoşa in Turkish, the name given to the city by the English is Nicosia. Since the Turkish invasion of 1974, it has been the […]
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Holiday in Cyprus (4): Famagusta
June 27th, 2018 by Roger Darlington
On the second day of the northern part of our Cyprus trip (Wednesday), we drove from Kyrenia all the way to Famagusta on the eastern coast of the island which took just under an hour and an half. Originally built by the Phoenicians, the city was totally enclosed by ramparts by the Venetians and these […]
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Holiday in Cyprus (3): Kyrenia
June 26th, 2018 by Roger Darlington
On Tuesday, I was woken at 4.30 am by the broadcasting of the Islamic call to prayer, a reminder that I was in north Cyprus and not south Cyprus. At 9 am, we met our guide for the northern part of our tour of the island: Sezain Patterson whose English was brilliant on account of […]
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Holiday in Cyprus (2): arrival
June 26th, 2018 by Roger Darlington
On Monday, the flight from London to Larnaca was just over four hours and the time difference between Britain and Cyprus is two hours, so it took the best part of the day reaching the island. At Larnaca, I met the other members of the group. Since I was travelling alone, I was hoping for […]
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Holiday in Cyprus (1): introduction
June 25th, 2018 by Roger Darlington
Top of my bucket list is – so long as I have reasonable health and wealth – to have visited as many countries as my age. I’m 70 today and I’m off to Cyprus which will be my 72nd country. It is an organised tour with the company Voyages Jules Verne and involves equal time […]
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We need to know more about dementia – what are the risk factors and how do we treat it?
June 13th, 2018 by Roger Darlington
I have done several blog postings about a health study on dementia to which I have been invited to contribute. This is a large-scale, longitudinal study based at the Imperial Research Hub at Charing Cross Hospital in London and it is looking particularly at whether the level of beta-amyloid in the brain is a risk factor. […]
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The continuing tragedy of Syria’s civil war
May 8th, 2018 by Roger Darlington
I spent two hours this Bank Holiday weekend watching a double programme about the civil war in Syria. It was broadcast by the BBC and presented by its Canadian-born chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet. You can check it out here. The seven-year Syrian civil war is a conflict which has now lasted longer than the Second […]
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It’s National Siblings Day
April 10th, 2018 by Roger Darlington
Well, at least in most parts of the United States, its is – see here. I’m blessed with a great sister Silvia in Leicester and a great brother Ralph in Manchester and a great half brother Chris near Winchester, so today I’m going to declare publicly how much they mean to me. Siblings are very […]
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Another visit to Prague to see my Czech mates
April 5th, 2018 by Roger Darlington
One of my best friends, before his premature death, was a Czech doctor from Prague called Pavel who died in a London hospital 24 years ago. You can read my obituary for him here. I have kept in touch with his wife and three children and seen them regularly in Prague and sometimes in London. […]
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