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.

Oh god. Please tell me they don't exist in Rhodes 🫨

FFS

I hate spiders, so naturally had to Google.
That large harmless one is scary as fxxk.
Not the better of it.
Huge, black and hairy.
The harmless bit is a moot point.

Anyone else itching at the thought?

GTFOOH

Would you hate me if I said Huntsmen

When September comes in the UK, I’d drop a heavy book on them (lovely mess to clean up the next day) and one night I had three bloody books on the floor.

Can’t think of a tome for a tarantula though (and then the gloop 🤢).

So the golden visa retirement dream is scratched off the list 🤯🔥

I'm done with going abroad and being terrorised by monsters.

Never will I ever go to Cyprus ever. Thank you for the warning OP.

The Cyprus tarantula is a scary-looking beast - but NOWHERE NEAR as scary as the Lebanese Viper, which is also found on Cyprus.

No, I didn't already know - I just Googled.

I googled "Cyprus tarantula". The AI overview described them as "docile".

To my dying day I will never, ever put the word "docile" and "arachnid" in the same sentence.

Never.

We had 2 in our room in Thailand, the first one was removed by the hotel staff, the second ran under the fridge in the room and they couldn’t find it. There was no way they were leaving until it was found! It was eventually located under the wall lamp near the fridge, how no-one saw or heard that thing moving is beyond me. They’re apparently shy 😳. It was the snakes I hated more than the spiders though, we saw a good few hanging from trees.

There is just no need for this sort of thing.

They are actually completely harmless. I get they look unpleasant but they are not going to bite you.

You just never know when they’re going to suddenly move. They are truly repulsive,

I may just stay in the pool full time now. Although I read on a Cyprus FB group about someone finding a tarantula drowned in their pool one morning. Yeah, that’ll teach you to try reserving sunbeds you spider fuck.

You’re all overreacting over a creature. Welcome to a world that isn’t Blighty

@Slatterndisgraceno. Just no.

babahahahahahaha I cannot even fathom how one would get over the trauma of this

My Google says ‘defensive and fast’. Now I’m shivering again.

I really want the laugh emoji back right now!

interesting because when we went to Cyprus we had a few geckos in our villa and many of the flying beetles outside at night.

It’s something to be relieved about though.

Oh God, I loved Cyprus when we went a few years ago and the only wildlife we saw was about a million stray cats

It's FAR worse than standing on a slug in the dark in your kitchen.