Anyone in Cyprus?

[ohgoonthen]

Hi everyone,

Just wondering if there are any of you currently living in Cyprus. I'm from the UK, been living in Cyprus for about 4 years now and am expecting first baby in September. I am on a few local forums buy just having a nosey to see if there are any mn-ers on this tiny little island too!!

nope sorry but i am in syria which is sort of close there are no local forums here and im not even british, but i have found mumsnet to be really interesting. when my internet is working anyway.......

hmm yes...Cyprus and Syria are close enough to have the internat gremlin!

Anyway, very nice to meet you! [big wave accross the sea emotion]

Mumsnet is great, and addicitve

[waves back]

god yes, its been bloody awful lately. the internet i mean. its so annoying. i am home with a 19 month old DD and no one here speaks english so i feel horribly cut off when it goes tits up.

what you doing in cyprus? [nosy emoticon]

Well, DH and I moved here with my family a few years back but family decided they didn't really like it and one by one moved back home! I'm indifferent about it, I have good and bad days but we worked damn hard to make a life here and didn't want to just abandon it!
So we're still here, DH likes it OK and remote works from home so not too bad. I don't work due to being totally rubbish at learning Greek so am sometimes hideously bored and homesick!
Good thing is there are alot of ex-pats here starting up businesses so I'm very seriously looking into that before I go loopy!
Decided to stay here for baby being born as healthcare is great (although expensive) and I'm a bit freaked out about the whole surprise baby, foreign country, no family around thing but finally learning to relax!
So what about you? I've met a few people from Syria here and they seem nice but I do know about the "cut off" feeling! It's not so easy!

DH got transferred last year. given the current economic situation we figured at least he still has a job and surely syria cant be all that bad?

turns out its ok actually. i mean, its an awesome place to visit (what with Damascus being like, 7 thousand years old and stuff) sliiiightly less fun to live .

but the weather is beautiful and we have a lovely garden and swimmin pool so that eases my pain somewhat.

its mainly the language barrier thats hard. going literrally weeks sometimes without being able ot have a proper conversation with someone is hard. and i think it would be immesurably worse if my DH wasnt prepared to speak to me like 11 times a day on the phone.

lol, totally understand the 'whole suprise baby, foreign country, no family around thing' i did that in Dubai. it did all work out, and im sure it will for you too. but jeeze its hard!