To burn the villa down

[Kinkyroots]

We’re staying in a villa in a hillside villa in Cyprus - DH (thank fucking god it was him and not me) went in to top our drinks up and a fucking tarantula was sat in the kitchen. He managed to catch it in the pool net but I am totally freaking out.

A few years ago I went to Belize on holiday. I’m terrified of spiders but like four-legged wildlife so we were staying in a jungle lodge for a few days. One day we came back to our lodge and I went in first and flicked the light switch. My husband was behind me and just said “stay where you are and don’t turn round”. There was a massive tarantula right next to the light switch. I had almost put my hand on it. He’s usually ok dealing with spiders but it freaked him out. I didn’t sleep for days.

We also went on a night walk there and when you shone your torch off the path you could see the eye shine of hundreds of tiny eyes looking back at you. 👀

It was a very cool trip but I won’t be going back!

Years ago a friend was serving with the RAF in Belize and he said the twats used to happily just walk all over the place, across the road etc etc.

I get it’s their habitat, and I chose to be here but that doesn’t help the visceral terror! The fact that DH was actually reacting made it more so as he literally encourages the big house spiders and doesn’t flinch. We think it was hidden behind the dishwasher, which we’d used for the first time that night.

Well Belize and Cyprus are dead to me now

@ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea I thought they came inside the temu packaging along with scorpions?

Or it was feeling for a vein and she removed it with a little white lie.....