Hi we also lived at 2 Regent Street in 1963, as you say, opposite the school and next to the parade of shops (shoe repairer, jewelers etc) then the Naffi and the YWCA
Hi we also lived at 2 Regent Street in 1963, as you say, opposite the school and next to the parade of shops (shoe repairer, jewelers etc) then the Naffi and the YWCA
Hi I lived at 13 st Anne?s Close with my mum and Dad, Victor and Sally and my older brother and sister Victor junior and Elaine, we were there from 1975 - 1978
I remember Saturday morning pictures at the SKC ,then down to the cricket field to watch the modelling club fly their remote control planes,such happy time's
Received this picture of the Airmans' Married Quarters. I never went there, but one direction I do remember is going to the NAFFI. We would walk from the barracks we were in close to the Lady L restaurant back in 1976 up to the NAFFI to buy food we could cook. I actually lived on boiled eggs and orange squash for breakfast, and mostly eating at the Lady L or going to a food stand where a guy sold what they called 'a kabob'. He would cut a piece of pita bread in half, open it into a pocket and stuff it with sausage links of some kind (but great), cut lamb strips and then cover it all with shredded lettuce and lemon salt.
It was a meal in itself and we liked them a lot.
This assignment was one of the highlights of my military career. I was assigned to the U2 Spyplane as a communications specialist for the U.S. Air Force. I worked in a radar trailer on the road to the Fisherman Club right on the water at the end of a long road. I once rode a bicycle to the club to get English beer because I was permanently stationed on an RAF base near Banbury, England.
Hello everyone who is still on this site. I am a United States Air Force Veteran and in 1976, I was temporarily assigned to RAF Akrotiri. It was my job to monitor activities of the U2 plane that flew in and out of RAF Akrotiri. I still have fond memories of that time. I can still remember my daily activity, I worked at night in a radar trailer on top of a hill backed up to the ocean. What a beautiful site. After sleeping a few hours, I would make my way down to the hangar to watch all the activity there, lots of hustle and bustle. After reporting to my supervisor, I'd walk back up to a cafe called "The Lady L". They had great food and I usually got a thin steak and fries. I can still taste it. Someone told to look around and see if I saw any cows there. We only saw goats and some donkeys. Was I eating something besides steak?
Sometimes I would get what they called a kabob, not the kabob I knew, but it was a pita, cut in half and stuffed with sausage links with meat cut in thin strips, like that now used in gyros we have here. It was topped with shredded lettuce and lemon salt. You could only eat one. It was a meal in itself. They sold them from a small place beside a road that led to the commissary and some housing areas.
There was a place I was told was called
The Fishing Club. It had food, beer and great people. We shot darts and sat looking out over the water.
Another place I remember fondly was called Sharks Cove. We walked down a long path and swam and sat in the sun for hours.
That's it, I guess. I still talk about being there. I would love for my wife and I to visit. She loves islands, the ones close to us are in the Caribbean. To me, the Mediterranean is more beautiful.
Thanks y'all. Have a great day.
Posted to akrotiri Nov 1958. Billited in the Cawood Bungalows on Queen St. The BMH was a series of converted Cawood bungalows. The "Sick quarters" was 1 Bungalow at the western end of Queen St. My sqn Was MECS. We did casevacs to Malta using a stretchered Varsity. I am visiting Paphos next year. Will I be allowed on base?
22 albion St 76-79 aged 6 eagals Rock devil's Hill came down there a few times on my skin best mate David Pullard who's dad was QLR and lived at 36 Albion St happy days....... Would love to see an up to date pic of my house I remember the water melon patch we had and the white fence made of wood
22 albion St 76-79 aged 6 eagals Rock devil's Hill came down there a few times on my skin best mate David Pullard who's dad was QLR and lived at 36 Albion St happy days....... Would love to see an up to date pic of my house I remember the water melon patch we had and the white fence made of wood
22 albion St 76-79 aged 6 eagals Rock devil's Hill came down there a few times on my skin best mate David Pullard who's dad was QLR and lived at 36 Albion St happy days....... Would love to see an up to date pic of my house I remember the water melon patch we had and the white fence made of wood
As a teenager lived at 13 Annes Close 58-59. Does anyone go back as far as that. Went to King Richards school at Dhekelia as a boarder. Some of the best years of my life.
I lived at 49 Albion Street in 1974, age 10, best 3 years of my life, the conflict made it more exciting for a kid, I think about my childhood with pride