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Mr T
Ravenscroft
11 Longlands Rd
New
Mills
STOCKPORT
Cheshire
SK12
3BL
31st March 1994 |
Cyprus
Airways
Euston Centre
29/31 Hampstead
Road
LONDON
NW1 3JA |
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| Dear Cyprus
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I would
love to visit Cyprus for a holiday, but unfortunately there is one thing
stopping me, for despite my being as British as John Bull himself I look
extremely Turkish. I have a swarthy complexion, a dusky olive skin, jet black
hair and limpid brown eyes. I also have a thick, droopy moustache which has the
effect of making me look even more Turkish than I already look. I could of
course shave of my moustache, but unfortunately I have a rather unsightly
harelip, and on balance I would rather look Turkish than
stupid.
I gather that relations between the Greeks and the
Turks are somewhat dodgy to say the least, and quite naturally the last thing
that I want whilst on holiday is to be hounded and unfairly treated by the
indigenous population. There is no doubt whatsoever that I would be mistaken
for a Turk as last year my wife and I and three other couples went to Turkey
for our holidays, and it was quite noticeable that I was the only one of our
party not to be constantly pestered by carpet salesmen. In fact one day when I
was browsing in the bazaar a Turkish salesman asked me to mind his stall for a
few minutes while he went for a haircut, and I almost sold a carpet to two
Germans.
However, and despite the handicap of looking
Turkish, I would still like to visit Aphrodite's Isle. Perhaps the situation
isn't quite as bad as I have been led to believe, and the hostility felt by
Greeks and Turks to each other has been exaggerated? My wife fancies the Paphos
area, and if Turk-hating isn't too bad in Paphos I might just be persuaded to
risk it. What do you think?
Yours
faithfully
T Ravenscroft (Mr) |
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