Xorg Inter-Galactic are pleased to announce the inaugural presentation of the Most Useless Land Registry In The World Award. Step forward the Cyprus Department of Lands and Surveys! Regular readers will be aware of our ongoing struggle to get our overseas estate properly registered with the authorities here. A long story, but suffice it to say that it has been labyrinthine if not Kafkaesque. (Kafka would not have held out the tantalising prospect that there might be a conclusion). We have been back and forth, paid fees, been back and forth again and even done some photocopying for them, but still the Land Registry have not managed to sign off the title deeds. El Presidente was promised on her last visit that the documents would be ready for her next visit but, no, nada, not ready yet. This time around we helped them out by going into the office and actually moving the file from one room to another in order to get some stuff signed. Sadly, that is where it has remained and we are promised for the fourth time that the deeds will be ready for our next visit. Meanwhile, despite the property not being registered we have had to pay the Property Tax...
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