On May 4, 10:09=A0am, Mike Lane wrote:
> On Sat, 3 May 2008 19:33:52 +0100, Dan Stephenson wrote
> (in article <2008050313335275249-stephedanospam@maccom>):
>
> > Hi in my last trip I met a Briton who used to live in Cyprus, and he
> > related that there were/are restrictions on crossing the Greek/Turkish
> > border thing. =A0I don't want to get into political definitions over
> > 'border', pls bear with me.
>
> > So if I brought in my own car (actually, a new European-delivered
> > Porsche that will be shipped home to America when I've finished my
> > touring) via car ferry what kind of frustrations or paperwork would I
> > need to cross Greek-Turkish and Turkish-Greek? =A0I really want to visit=
> > Famagusta but I hear of great stuff in the south and west as well.
>
> > Thanks!
>
> I would be careful before trying to ship a car to or from Cyprus. As far a=
s I
> know there are still no car ferries going to Cyprus from anywhere in Europ=
e.
> So the only way you could get your car would be to take a flight yourself,=
> and arrange to have the car shipped separately. This would be fraught with=
> problems and I'm sure expensive. (Some friends of mine shipped a car back =
to
> Britain from Cyprus a few years ago and it arrived minus a radio.)
>
> If you're determined to go to Cyprus, cars of all kinds are easy to rent
> (personally I would not bother with Cyprus at all). Incidentally, traffic =
in
> (Southern) Cyprus drives on the left like in the UK. I don't know if you'r=
e
> happy with that.
>
> --
> Mike Lane =A0(UK North Yorkshire)
> To contact me replace invalid with mike underscore lane
I agree about skipping Cyprus, it's a nice enough place to visit, but
difficulties in reaching it by car probably would outweigh your
enjoyment of it. There's plenty enough to do driving around Europe
without making a detour to an Asian island.
George |