Today, while walking to Ledra Street from the apartment, my dad turned to a nearby street sign and thwacked it. He explained that our grandfather (Grandpa Panyiotis) served under the general for which the street is named and that the general had been good friends with the family.
Apparently, grandpa was a resistance fighter during the Cypriot struggle for independence from the British in the 1950’s. He left my grandma Anna for over a year and went into hiding with the EOKA. Before he left, he had the gall to knock up grandma Anna who promptly became severely pregnant with my Dad and his twin brother, Louise. Months passed and as pregnant women are wont to do, Anna went into labor. Somehow, other EOKA fighters got word to my grandpa that Anna was in labor. To avoid capture by the British, Grandpa Panyiotis, the King of Mediterranean Machismo, dressed up as a woman and snuck out of the EOKA bunker to visit his laboring wife.
We'll be heading out of Nicosia, towards the eastern part of the UN controlled border to visit his grave in a couple days.
Apparently, grandpa was a resistance fighter during the Cypriot struggle for independence from the British in the 1950’s. He left my grandma Anna for over a year and went into hiding with the EOKA. Before he left, he had the gall to knock up grandma Anna who promptly became severely pregnant with my Dad and his twin brother, Louise. Months passed and as pregnant women are wont to do, Anna went into labor. Somehow, other EOKA fighters got word to my grandpa that Anna was in labor. To avoid capture by the British, Grandpa Panyiotis, the King of Mediterranean Machismo, dressed up as a woman and snuck out of the EOKA bunker to visit his laboring wife.
We'll be heading out of Nicosia, towards the eastern part of the UN controlled border to visit his grave in a couple days.
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