THE OFFICIAL BFC MONTHLY MAGAZINE Issue 44 • June 2010 FREE CYPRUS FORCES LIFESTYLE feel great!Our guide to a healthy summer VIETNAM Simon Gresswell on the Banana Pancake Trail RumoursHow do you build a good reputation? WIN! Great prizes: Dining out, airport parking, THE PLAYERS TO LOOK OUT FOR AT THIS watersports, hotel stays, & more.... YEAR’S BIGGEST SPORTING EVENT... THE ALL-ISLAND MONTHLY MAGAZINE • AKROTIRI • AYIOS NIKOLAOS • DHEKELIA • EPISKOPI • UN Maria MPatsiou MARINA OTHER BRANDS AVAILABLE: ZENON AVENUE (FINIKOUDES) HOBOS POLICE OF Sports Maria LARNACA Shop Patsiou BANK OF GREECE ZENONOS KITIEOS AVENUE 17 Philiou Zanettou str., Larnaca, Tel: 24828232 Mob: 99668460 (Church of England Soldiers Sailors and Airmen’s Club) A Forces Favourite Charity Show your support for the England Team in the World Cup 2010 Choose from our extensive range of England supporters memorabilia such as fl ags, caps, car stickers scarves and much more. Available at all our CESSAC Stores. Hurry while stocks last Don’t forget Father’s Day on 20 June 2010 - choose from UK supplied range of cards and gifts for your Dad! Best Value Magazines CAFES Gifts • Full food and drink Menus Stationery • Outside catering - Mobile Van Newspapers (Jacket Potatoes, Hot Dogs Etc) Magazines • Function Room for Private parties Toys & • Internet cafe – Free use and Sweets & Free Wifi connection Confectionery Games CESSAC HQ – Episkopi 25211325 CESSAC Centre Episkopi “The Shop” Grapevine Tea Rooms 25211325 CESSAC Centre Akrotiri “The Shop” Lady Lampson’s Cafe 25952338 CESSAC Centre Dhekelia “The Shop” Beach Cafe 24723214 CESSAC UN Nicosia Shop and Cafe 22359308 Email: [email protected] JUNE 2010 Contents 7 | Hello 25 CFL DIARY from the Editor May 12th Weekly The Band of the Royal Logistics Slimming World Corps in Concert With Slimming World Consultant Caroline | Goode, who can help you to lose weight with At the Dhekelia Garrison WO and Sgts Mess, 9 Bystander open to all ranks and their families (non- the popular and successful Slimming World eating plan and plenty of support. Mondays entitled personnel welcome, but you must at Episkopi Garrison Epicentre (5-7pm), have some form of ID). Doors open 6pm, Wednesdays at RAF Akrotiri Families Club concert begins 7.30pm. Tickets on sale at (5-7pm) and ursdays at Dhekelia Leisure HIVE, CESSAC, DSU and UKCA - adults €10, Resort (5.30-7.30pm). For more information under 16s free. For more information call Interesting events from BFC or to join, pop along to any of the groups, or Major Parish on 9949 4985. call Caroline on 9774 5869. For information on Slimming World visit the 15th website: www.slimming world.com. Don London Memorial Concert 7th Staged by ABF at Pissouri Amphitheatre, 6.30pm. Featuring the Band of the Royal Barn Dance Logistics Corps. Bring your picnics and cool Hosted by Akrotiri Ladies’ Events, at the boxes! Tickets €10, available by email from Chaplaincy Centre, RAF Akrotiri, from 7pm. [email protected] or call 9963 2119. Put on your boots, checked shirts and stetsons | for a stomping evening of fun. Tickets 15, 30th 10 Diary Dates includes chilli supper, barn dance, bucking bronco, laser shoot and disco. Bring your own K1 Triathlon booze. For more information call 9994 4455. Sprint and super sprint categories. 7am for 8am start, at RAF Akrotiri K1 Triathlon Club. 8th Race fees €5 for members, €10 for non- Mountain 2 Sea members. Bike hire on race day €5. For more ings to keep you entertained information visit www.k1triathlonclub.org or Mountain Bike Race call Emma Claydon on 2596 2224. 55km race from Troodos to Pissouri Bay. Compete in teams of three - mixed, male or female. Course will be set, with regular checkpoints. Entry €30 per person, price includes a t-shirt and fi nishing meal for all get ready for... entrants. For more information and entry forms please contact CJSATC on 2474 4788. June 18 - 20 8th & 9th | Shakespeare at Curium 13 Community News Comedy Nights Your opportunity to see four of the best UK ‘Merchant of Venice’ live at Curium stand-up comedians - Steve Williams, Junior Amphitheatre, for three nights only, from Simpson, Geoff Boyz and Yianni Agisilaou. 8pm. Tickets €20 for adults, €10 for students. Featuring CSE Forces entertainers. Saturday, Proceeds go to local charities Friends for Life May 8 at Dhekelia Leisure Resort (doors open Limassol and Friends of the Paphos Hospice. 5pm for 8pm start, bar open until midnight), For tickets call 9999 0535, or for more Updates about life on island information call 9905 8394 or 9942 7572. and Sunday, May 9 at RAF Akrotiri Astra Cinema (doors open 7pm for 8pm start). Over 18s only. Tickets 15, available in advance from your local HIVE, or by calling 9997 6913 or 9939 8713. 9th - 16th Photo: Dave Dunbar Big Breakfast Week Open Arms presents the annual Spring Breakfast Challenge, with a week of breakfast 21 | Bases Faces events taking place around the island - large May 31st-June 4th and small - sponsored by Sodexo and raising money for the Open Arms TPMH Cancer RAF Akrotiri International 10s Festival of Rugby Patients Support Group, as well as local Rugby tournament for men’s, ladies’ and veterans teams, with matches charities. Look out for details of events on the every day and entertainment every evening. Tournament fi nal on website www.openarmstpmh.com, in the Lion Friday, June 4, followed by a fi nal night party with live music. Meet Soona Bowes, PA to Chief of Staff newspaper, on BFBS Radio, and in Bystander For more information visit the website: on page 9. For more information you can www.akrotiri10s.com. contact Sally Dey on 9774 5589 or email [email protected]. 22 | The CFL Interview Introducing Sodexo’s new MD, Chris Bray 25 | Vietnam Part six of Simon Gresswell’s World Travel Diary 30 | Summer Feeling great and glowing with beauty 34 | World Cup Watch List e players to look out for at this year’s World Cup in South Africa 30 37 | Bad Hair Day Footballers and their most wacky hair cuts 39 | Finance 50 | Competitions Handling your holiday money Win some fantastic prizes - be in it to win it! 40 | It’s all Greek to Me Learn useful phrases related to months and seasons 51 | Playtime We review websites, books, CDs, DVDs and games 41 | Traditions Past and present currency in Cyprus 54 | Cinema SSVC cinema schedules for June 42 | Cyprus Sites Part six in our series on walking trails 57 | AFF & HIVE 44 | Cuisine Help and advice for the BFC community Delicious barbecue recipes 58 | Notes to Self 46 | Restaurant Review Information listings for clubs, groups and activities CFL reviews Akakiko in Limassol 22 67 | Telephone Directory 48 | Single Scene Essential numbers for the bases Jaye Evans ponders how to build a good reputation 70 | Gadgets and Gizmos Everyone can be famous, with Kodak’s PlaySport camcorder 37 48 30 P.X.M. 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CYPRUS FORCES LIFESTYLE CFLTHE OFFICIAL BFC MONTHLY MAGAZINE t doesn’t matter who you are, where you work, or what you like to do with your spare time, over the next four weeks it will be impossible for you to avoid the wave of Publisher: Stuart Bardsley euphoria that is just about to sweep across the globe – that’s right, it is World Cup month. Sales and Marketing Manager: I Audrey Dugdale For those lovers of the beautiful game, the World Cup is the symbol of what we love most about it – the greatest players in the world , all fi ghting to win the greatest prize Mobile: 9932 1057 of all. But for the English readers of CFL, you may also associate the World Cup with Fax: 2596 8093 heartache (unless you were alive in 1966) as we always seem to be let down by our highly- Email: [email protected] paid countrymen when we need them most of all. Editorial staff: 2596 3490 So, in this month’s issue we decided this should be the year when we do not get carried away with the optimism that inevitably grips us all just prior to the big kick off and in Production staff: 2596 3149 order to do that we took a closer look at some of the incredible players that will be lining Accounts queries: 2596 2052 up against the ee Lions in their pursuit of glory and let me tell you, it does not make happy reading. Address: CFL, Media Operations, Aside from the football genius that will be on display in South Africa there is always HQ BFC, Episkopi, BFPO 53 something else that many armchair fans always look forward to – the haircuts. at’s Advertisement design: right, over the years, the World Cup and its many nations taking part have given us some Christina Papalexis of the best and some of the worst haircuts imaginable, think spiky green dreadlocks, terrifying mohawks and bizarre triangular shaped tufts of hair. On page 37 we highlight Printers: the 10 worst styles to have graced the pitch.