Cypriate pounds

branddaly

branddaly

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I've not been to Cyprus for around 3 or 4 years, and I'm going this summer. I've just found out that they converted to the euro over the last year, and the Post office have stopped buying back Cyprus Pounds, which is a little unfortunate as I've got around £80 still. It appears the only place that I can take them to convert them into euro's is the central bank of cyprus, and I'm too lazy to go out of my way finding it.

So...does any one any Cypriate Charities that are willing to take cash donations in old Cypriate pounds? Google led me to one that is a pet sanctuary, but dogs and cats aren't really my thing. Obviously if no one has any sensible suggestions then they'll get the cash.

Cheers,
 
branddaly said:
I think I could have done during the entirety of 2007, but I seem to have missed that.
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oh, strange, in the UK you can still take old Uk pounds to a bank to exchange them for new Sterling, silly Cypriates eh?
 
Go to Cyprus they'll change it for you - alternatively give it to me as I go to Cyprus a lot (as does my family).

Secondly, it's Cypriot! Not Cypriate! I wouldn't be so proud of being part Cypriate ;) :p
 
branddaly said:
I've not been to Cyprus for around 3 or 4 years, and I'm going this summer. I've just found out that they converted to the euro over the last year, and the Post office have stopped buying back Cyprus Pounds, which is a little unfortunate as I've got around £80 still. It appears the only place that I can take them to convert them into euro's is the central bank of cyprus, and I'm too lazy to go out of my way finding it.

So...does any one any Cypriate Charities that are willing to take cash donations in old Cypriate pounds? Google led me to one that is a pet sanctuary, but dogs and cats aren't really my thing. Obviously if no one has any sensible suggestions then they'll get the cash.

Cheers,
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Im going to cyprus next wednesday.
Woot!
 
Yeah the Cypriot way of life is fantastic. I'm so lucky to have family there and property there, it makes escaping to heaven so much easier. Though usually I have to chase rent and do some boring legal stuff which is a bore to do in the Cypriot style. Oh and I had to pay to go to the family crypt! :confused: It's apparently a maintenance charge - they're cheeky ones - always able to find a quick buck, though they do do a good job, and take pride in their work most of the time. I just wish the ****ing Turks would get the **** out of there (though the Turkish Cypriots I have no issues with as they belong there too), and stop raping the land and ruining the north of the island with their shoddy, tacky overdevelopment. I always wish the Kurdish people would leave my island alone.
 
Well that's because they've got themselves comfortable there as it's a heck of a lot better for them in Cyprus than where they came from. Though I'm sure some of them are trying to integrate and so on - I just hope we can get back to Cyprus of old.
 
Of course it's a lot better for them in Cyprus, what with their villages having been carpet-bombed and their relatives slaughtered. They haven't got a country anymore and they realise the dangers that we're facing much better than we do. I don't know how much time you've spent there in the last 4-5 years but the feeling of complacent smugness that's been permeating the place has been stifling - people were satisfied to sit on the little we have left turning a blind eye to how much we're losing with each day of inactivity. Thankfully the slimy old drunk who was responsible for this mentality has been given a cheap watch and a limp handshake and sent off to a long-overdue retirement back to his crypt or Transylvanian castle or wherever the hell he crawled out of, and the next person in charge will make more of an effort to solve the problem.
 
I go there several times a year - it's part of my home/life as I have family there and am part Cypriot :)

As long as they put the effort in to integrate then I have no issues with the Kurds at all - it's the Turkish army I have issues with and the mainland Turks that raping the country and illegally building property on Greek Cypriot land.
 
So the Cyprus-ians have finally surrendered their worthless foreign counting beans of a currency to the Euro eh...
 
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