Guido's Restaurant an Apology

Hippo


Joined: 02/02/2007
Posts: 2070

Message Posted:
01/04/2009 07:34

Folowing my banning for making some unsavoury coments about the said emporium Hippo would like to apologise for any misconceptions he may have portrayed and any distress or harm it may have caused.

I was wrong to suggest that Guido's did anything to circumnavigate the importation laws here in the TRNC i am sure that they import all thier goods including the Dutch vegetables, fresh (alive lobsters) scalops quiennies cheeses salamies and pates directly here.

What i didnt think when i made so rash a statement as to suggest that they were South Cyprus goods, is that you cant import them ,there is a ban on meat and dairy produce being brought accross the border.

I am sorry guido and llili i just wasnnt thinking i again apologise unreservably.

i would like to take this opurtunity to wish you all success in your buisiness endvours it must be quite difficult in this economic down turn especially having yourcar snatched by the customs.

I hope this posting will go some way to making amends

deecyprus4


Joined: 27/07/2008
Posts: 3452

Message Posted:
01/04/2009 08:05

Ahh Hippo what a nice thing to do

guidosp1


Joined: 30/12/2008
Posts: 341

Message Posted:
01/04/2009 08:23

good morning Hippo welcome back to the forum. i make my own pate. the lobsters and the scallops as well as the savoy cabbage ( from Holland) get flown in from the south and i am sure that you know it is not forbidden to bring fish or vegetables across the green line. my car was due to go out of the country and if i want i can still do so. the jeep is 15 years old with the UK value of about 1000 stg. the custom cannot charge me for the duties because of the car's age and doesn't make sense to take the car back to UK. it would cost me more of the car's value. apology accepted

regards

guido

AlsancakJack



Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 5762

Message Posted:
01/04/2009 08:35

Good on you Hipps

Hippo


Joined: 02/02/2007
Posts: 2070

Message Posted:
01/04/2009 08:38

Dear Guido-thankyou for accepting my apology Just a little tip for you, the allowance for importations is for your personal use not for a business- i wouldn't want you to get into any trouble now we have become friends.

simbas



Joined: 16/07/2007
Posts: 5943

Message Posted:
01/04/2009 08:40

Morning Hippo , You're not just a pretty face are you ?

Have a nice day , Simbas

The-Wicks


Joined: 27/05/2007
Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
01/04/2009 09:16

Good on you Hippo for the apology & well done to Guido for accepting.

P

Harlequin


Joined: 02/10/2008
Posts: 346

Message Posted:
01/04/2009 09:21

Interesting to hear that the lobsters, scallops and the cabbages get flown in from the South.



Are there direct flights now? This is very good news. Is that from Larnaca to Ercan or where?

Hippo


Joined: 02/02/2007
Posts: 2070

Message Posted:
01/04/2009 09:24

Another April fool posting maybe????

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
01/04/2009 09:26

Hippo, theres a certain quality in a person who apologises on a public forum. You have that quality. Well done.

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
01/04/2009 09:26

Whoops, just seen your message Number 9. Tell me your joking!

Hippo


Joined: 02/02/2007
Posts: 2070

Message Posted:
01/04/2009 09:42

I was refering to flights from Larnaca-Ercan

Harlequin


Joined: 02/10/2008
Posts: 346

Message Posted:
01/04/2009 09:42

Shopping in the south.... message 6 by Lilli



we have to go as our products cannont be sourced here particulary good italian and french wines and the fresh herbs.Also the cheese has to be imported as do the fresh lobster scallops etc. Only once I have experiences rudness. In fact in the supermarkets if they dont stock any of the italian procudts that we require they will endeavour to obtain them for us and they call us once they have them.Batterboy I think that they are also feeling the credit crunch like elsewhere hence he long faces.However I must agree that like elsewhere since the euro prices have doubled. We try to get as much as we can here but its not always fresh or easy.



Message 16



Judy we will always take you. i read on here that you can get a bus for about 3 euro to the mall. let me know he goes usualy tues. thurs and saturday occasionally friday if we get lobster and fresh fish orders. xxxxx

Harlequin


Joined: 02/10/2008
Posts: 346

Message Posted:
01/04/2009 09:43

Hippo



I was referring to guidos post



good morning Hippo welcome back to the forum. i make my own pate. the lobsters and the scallops as well as the savoy cabbage ( from Holland) get flown in from the south and i am sure that you know it is not forbidden to bring fish or vegetables across the green line. my car was due to go out of the country and if i want i can still do so. the jeep is 15 years old with the UK value of about 1000 stg. the custom cannot charge me for the duties because of the car's age and doesn't make sense to take the car back to UK. it would cost me more of the car's value. apology accepted

Harlequin


Joined: 02/10/2008
Posts: 346

Message Posted:
01/04/2009 09:48

Are Lobsters and Scallops classified as fish or what?



Is it a fish, for this purpose, if it lives in the sea. Is a Crayfish a fish?

madmazz


Joined: 14/01/2009
Posts: 82

Message Posted:
01/04/2009 10:07

I thought the ban on meat from the south had been lifted!! I went over on Saturday and bought a fresh rabbit, pork chops bacon and cheese!!! Lucky I didnt get stopped then!!! I asked half a dozen people, and they all said it was ok now!!

cyprusishome


Joined: 31/03/2007
Posts: 2381

Message Posted:
01/04/2009 11:27

The meat and dairy ban is still in place or then again it might not be!! Will depend on you taking the risk, being stopped, all confiscated and fine imposed.



Glad it is your risk!!!.

Bowman


Joined: 02/05/2007
Posts: 256

Message Posted:
01/04/2009 15:17

Lobsters and Crayfish are crustaceans, scallops are molluscs, so no they are not fish. Arent most people sick and tired of other board members, (who seem to have nothing better to do), having a go at people in the TRNC who are trying to make an honest living. The reason a lot of produce has to be brought in by friends or bought in the South is not because people are wanting to blatantly break any laws. It is because of the UNFAIR and UNJUST embargoes and restrictions imposed on the Turkish Cypriot people, and those who have chosen to live here. Good luck to you Guido and Lilli

daisy dukes


Joined: 06/09/2008
Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
01/04/2009 15:33

HEAR HEAR Bowman!!



DD

mmmmmm



Joined: 19/12/2008
Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
01/04/2009 15:37

Dear Bowman





Those who come to the "TRNC" to live / work know the downsides... and WHY it is relatively unspoilt .



Let's keep it in perspective...



POST EDITED.

Mark lets keep this thread on topic.

AJ

Blackpoolfan


Joined: 03/12/2008
Posts: 1568

Message Posted:
01/04/2009 15:54

Poor old Lilli what starts as an appology and rightly so gets hijacked by the gc's and we go back to the property issues again and again and again. Pass me a razor blade..........

spider


Joined: 03/01/2009
Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
01/04/2009 16:00

Same old same old song,...just cant seem to keep that topic to just ONE,thread...now that would be sooooooooo nice..



lilli hi,seems all love you and your place nice to see Hippo say his sorrys.

take care and will see you soon,x









Spider,x

TheSaints



Joined: 28/01/2009
Posts: 1369

Message Posted:
01/04/2009 16:09

Well said Hippo,



shame the thread turned the way it did yet again.

rowlo



Joined: 12/10/2008
Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
01/04/2009 18:32

takes a good man hippo , well done.

MimoMar


Joined: 26/01/2009
Posts: 150

Message Posted:
01/04/2009 19:14

Hippo,

I have reviewed your "sorry" posts and is it just me or, does anyone else feel the same way!

"i am sure that they import all thier goods including the Dutch vegetables, fresh (alive lobsters) scalops quiennies cheeses salamies and pates directly here." === > Sarcasm

"What i didnt think when i made so rash a statement as to suggest that they were South Cyprus goods, is that you cant import them ,there is a ban on meat and dairy produce being brought accross the border." === > Obvious

"I am sorry guido and llili i just wasnnt thinking i again apologise unreservably." === > Spelt unreservedly incorrectly. By mistake or, on purpose?

"i would like to take this opurtunity to wish you all success in your buisiness endvours it must be quite difficult in this economic down turn especially having yourcar snatched by the customs. === > Sarcasm



I think that "So, Sorry, my fault." would have been better!

TRNCVaughan


Joined: 27/04/2008
Posts: 4578

Message Posted:
01/04/2009 19:30

The penny drops.

newscoop


Joined: 23/12/2007
Posts: 2197

Message Posted:
01/04/2009 19:42

Was wondering if I was the only one who noticed the real sentiments!

Harlequin


Joined: 02/10/2008
Posts: 346

Message Posted:
01/04/2009 20:20

Bowman



So, I take it then, that you would not approve of anyone breaking the laws of the TRNC whether blatantly or otherwise.



Or, is it your view that it would be OK for people to break laws which they thought unfair or otherwise did not like?



Or, perhaps you think it is OK to break laws as long as you are not blatant about it.

taraspring


Joined: 25/01/2009
Posts: 571

Message Posted:
02/04/2009 02:03

Mimomar - I agree. Hardly genuine sentiments. And the opportunity to throw in the "Dutch" reference too (presumably for obvious reasons of having a dig at a certain other poster).



"i am sure that they import all thier goods including the Dutch vegetables, fresh (alive lobsters) scalops quiennies cheeses salamies and pates directly here."



"i would like to take this opurtunity to wish you all success in your buisiness endvours it must be quite difficult in this economic down turn especially having yourcar snatched by the customs ======== WAS THIS PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE? If not, this announcement by a third party was extremely below the belt and unnecessary.



Very Sad that such insincerity is shown in what purports to be an "Apology".

Even sadder that the poster has so much time to devote to generally ridiculing DC and rubbishing fellow ex-pat's businesses.

stewy


Joined: 18/10/2008
Posts: 279

Message Posted:
02/04/2009 06:02

Why so bitter and twisted?

Love thy neighbour.

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
02/04/2009 09:22

RE msg 31, Taraspring > generally ridiculing DC <



===> Thank you for the "DC part" of your message and I agree with all of it. However, this member "Hippo" cannot ridicule me. We are not in the same league. This illiterate, sad old gentleman only ridicules himself.

mmmmmm



Joined: 19/12/2008
Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
02/04/2009 11:10

Dear AJ, re msg 20 and the editing



"interesting" that you didn't edit out Bowman's reference to "UNFAIR and UNJUST embargoes and restrictions" ..?



.just my response.....

Littlenige



Joined: 24/12/2006
Posts: 3594

Message Posted:
02/04/2009 11:17

I nominate hippo and d/c for moderators.

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
02/04/2009 11:46

RE msg 34, Littlenige > I nominate hippo and d/c for moderators. <



==> On your board..?

cronos


Joined: 26/10/2008
Posts: 2093

Message Posted:
02/04/2009 12:02

That board doesn't need moderators DC....it is an oasis of niceness.

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
02/04/2009 12:51

RE msg 36, cronos > oasis of niceness <



===> I know, cronos, I know. It's a bottomless and wide sea of niceness, without a ripple! When I surf that board I feel like a member of the Salvation Army...

The-Wicks


Joined: 27/05/2007
Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
02/04/2009 12:55

Speaking for myself, I find it an oasis of boredom - before anyone asks, I don't use it



J

DONTY


Joined: 07/06/2007
Posts: 534

Message Posted:
02/04/2009 13:00

If someone can provide quality products not otherwise available and is paying their business taxes, who gives a monkeys how it gets here! Bravo to our islands importers!



Regarding imports in general:

Many import taxes and rules here are ridiculous and how much of this money ends up where it should anyway? I am told by Cypriot friends that most ends up in the custom guys, or, some millionaire ministers pocket!



Re whiter than white ex-pats:

In the UK the rules are there for everyone and people would dib in the own granny for failing to indicate when making a turn but come to the Med and you find that they do it differently. Rules don't need apply if your uncle is in the cops, is in government etc.



I will be on the lookout for Brits failing to indicate whilst driving and hope to make my first citizens arrest very shortly.

guidosp1


Joined: 30/12/2008
Posts: 341

Message Posted:
03/04/2009 08:10

When i go to the R.O.C. i need to exchange my TL into Euro with a good loss on the exchange. I use my car, i pay the insurance(25 euro per month), i use my time (i could spend my time making more fresh pasta or PATE) just for making sure i can provide BASIC products otherwise not available in OUR BELOVED TRNC but available anywhere else on the planet ( years ago i finded fresh mozzarella in a back street of NAIROBI). I sell this products because it is a demand for it. What you have failed to realise is that when we sell this products, we pay tax to the TRNC governament (recipts or fatura)but we are unable to deduct the costs of this products because they are not tax deductable in the TRNC. If i went to my accountant and presented my recipts from the south he would laugh on my face. So before assuming that we try to avoid to pay tax or duties think long and hard and after if you still thinking that we are wrong then have your saying.I pay lot more taxes then you. Trust me on that!!.

guidosp1


Joined: 30/12/2008
Posts: 341

Message Posted:
03/04/2009 08:31

Message 12

I am sorry that i failed to explain myself correctly; i dint mean you can fly from Larnaca to the TRNC i meant the products get flown in the south and not in from the south ( message 3). I think you know what i meant.



Your sarcasm slide on the rail of my complete indifference without provoke any friction!!

simbas



Joined: 16/07/2007
Posts: 5943

Message Posted:
03/04/2009 08:44

This thread is now closed. Reason: Thread was addressed and no need for further posts.