Memories

Most of my happiest childhood memories are from my summer holidays spent in Cyprus as a young child.I remember playing games like 40/40 which is where one person faces a wall counts to 40 while the rest of the players hide out of sight the counter then has to look around to see if they can spot any persons partaking if so they go back to their base shouting 40/40 i see you before the other person gets to the base and shouts 40/40 in the person that is caught first becomes the counter in the next game.

Cyprus being quite a poor country in them days children resorted to creating their own entertainment as I mentioned to Sarah we regularly devised our own toys one example being creating darts from feathers,tailors pins and melted tar that regularly melted from the high temperatures.

One of my ideas was to create these darts and pin them to the wall in the shape of Cyprus obviously these are not ideal toys but they amused us as kids.Children were also allowed to play with air riffles to amuse themselves our capture animals such as birds and reptiles.There is something about great weather that makes your memories much more appealing I believe, or maybe its the care free attitude if the country.