Kevin

I cannot wait for these photos.

Particulary if you have photographed the British road with Turkish on one
side and Greek on the other. Here is no buffer zone, so how do they keep the
parts apart?

Jesper

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Meynell" <knm@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Crossing Cyprus UN buffer zone

>
> >I've crossed into the Turkish zone at Ledra Palace Hotel twice, in 1996
> >and 1999. The crossing procedure was straight-forward, took about half an
> >hour from the Greek checkpoint through 100 metres of UN territory to the
> >Turkish checkpoint.
>
> I visited Cyprus last week, and things seemed to have become a bit more
> relaxed at the Ledra Palace checkpoint. We were simply allowed to walk
> through the Greek Cypriot checkpoint (although told to return by midnight)
> and the 100 metres of UN buffer zone, before the passport check at the
TRNC
> checkpoint. Coming back, we had to shown our passports again at the TRNC
> checkpoint, but the solitary Greek Cypriot official the other side wasn't
> checking anyone coming back. I managed to take some photos of the buffer
> zone around the Ledra Palace, so I'll put these on the web when I get them
> developed.
>
> I also tried to get near the Kokkina enclave, but it's still bristling
with
> UN troops. The best I could do was a long-range photograph from an
> overlooking hill.
>
> Finally, I got a few photographs of the Akrotiri and Dhekelia SBAs. It's
> quite interesting to drive along the road within the Dhekelia SBA towards
> Famagusta, with the Turkish line on one side, and the Greek line on the
> other side.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kevin Meynell
>
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