Currently Nicosia is reeling from a tornado ripping through it on Friday. All I experienced was power shower pressure rain soaking me in the 2m from the car door to the front door, hail stones as big as a kiwi fruit smashing against the paving slabs outside and the sight of half a large tree sweeping up the road all on its own.

Interesting.

Funnily enough, it's pleasant getting wet when it's hot outside and you're by the sea but when you're in the middle of town, in office clothes, it's not so amusing.

It's weird to think only 3 weeks ago, I was with my good pal NNav, renting a boat from mikewatersports.com, and flying around Cape Greco. We stopped off near the blue lagoon, dropped anchor and I removed my lifejacket and jumped in, complete with snorkel and goggles and saw.. nothing. No fish, no sharks (ho ho) just the underside of the motorboat, the anchor slowly creeping across the sands to some particularly craggy looking rocks, 16m below.

Rule number 3 from mike' boats came to mind: "don't anchor on rocks, you'll never free yourselves and then we'll haveto cut th erope and buy a new anchor." Having ownership of the boat and anchor for all of 1 hour was too much stress for me, I rushed out of the sea, which, to be honest, was a disappointing swim after the rocky openess of the northern beaches, teeming with fishies, to get onto the boat and rescue the anchor.

We pulled it up, it got stuck on a rock. I swore internally, turned the motor on and inched forwards, hoping to dislodge the anchor by pulling it out the way it came. Inching forwards, NNav pulled in teh rope and just as we passed the vertical point of the anchor, it released, coming up easily.

Anyway, the summer's over now. No more boat rentals! I tried swimming yesterday with my brother and his pals but another storm swept in just as I was photographing my favourite little fish.