my tryst with cyprus cars and police.

December 17.

It's been more than 3 months since i arrived in Cyprus on September 6. My time here has been full of experiences some good, some not. Many more incidents have occurred which have not yet reached the blog, some of which may never even reach here. There are many moments that came till date which I would treasure my lifetime. Some of these were owning a car, moving into our home, driving at 160 kmph, sight seeing with friends, bowling nights, the fridays at amdocs and so on. Probably as you know or might have guessed, that i have quite a fascination for cars and driving. Two of my posts on the driving experiences and this one's title may perhaps bear testimony to this fact.

Speaking of cars and driving, my drives here in cyprus have been eventful to say the least. Many incidents (or accidents) have occurred and many more may follow suite. I was in the rental car which Punit, my friend gave some finishing touch. I guess he probably did not like the front and so decided for a makeover by ramming it against another car. We got away on that by paying the damages but needless to say, job well done Punit.

When sarvoday, chintan and myself headed to polis, a place beyond paphos, nobody would have imagined that it would be the last drive of that car. The car engine just could not handle the heat and bid adieu to us. It cost sarvo and chintan their first car and they I believe would have entered the guiness records for buying 2 cars in 1 month.

Moving on, when sarvo and i headed towards the trukish cyprus, we were again caught by police at various points on both side but were not troubled much.

But luck never stays on your side all the time. One fine morning while driving towards office, i got caught for driving at 80 where the limit was 50. Had to shell out 40 euros and got rewarded with 2 points. Paying fine at the police station was quite an experience in itself for which by the way, i even got a letter (i suppose receipt but useless as it is in greek).

This was certainly not the last i had seen of the police. Returning late night after a very tiring and frustrating day (my friends here would know why) was stopped by police in the bylanes. But this was just a routine inspection. He did not understand our Indian license but seeing the amdocs id around my neck, he probably did not get suspicious and let me off without bother.

More was to come. One night when sarvo and i went about one of our night drives (or better put - to buy milk ), we were again stopped in some small bylanes of the city. Since i had been stopped earlier, i was calm and knew that this wouldnt last more than 2 mins. But the officer had other plans. Being a friday midnight, he suspected we were drunk and he asked me to give an alcohol test. This was certainly the last thing on my mind. Needless to say i passed with flying colors, and we went about (buying milk).

Time for some bad ones as well. While reversing one night at McDonalds, I went more than the space behind
permitted and the car rear hit a pole though it did not inflict any damage.

2 days ago, while going home after an early morning shift, my mind drifted away, broke a parked car's mirror. I did get down to look and find the owner and cover up the matter, but since there was no one around, i went on to home.

All in all, my drives in cyprus have been eventful, and hope only pleeasant more drives to follow.