LIFE IN CYPRUS
Sta,—Mr. Moore-Bennett's statements in your issue of July 11th about the cost of living in Cyprus astonished me. I lived in that island from May, 1945, to the end of March, 1947. Invalided out of the Army in the Middle East, I had to find a place with good air and good food. Jerusalem had alway,s suited me, but its prices were just twice what I could afford. The Lebanon is renowned for its wonderful-food and its air, but its prices were three times above my level. Cyprus was exactly right, and a little cheaper than Cairo. On landing in- England last April I found that prices in England were astronomical compared with those in Cyprus, and food infinitely poorer and less palatable, with none of the cheap fruit that gives such relish to the poorest Cypriot's meal. The proof of the pudding, Sir, is in the eating.—Yours faithfully,
C/o Barclay's Bank, Bloomsbury, W.C. I. MARGARET HASLUCK.
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