Dodge in Malta

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by David_Hayward
Hanno, I too head heard that there was a dealership on the Green Line, alhough I would have thought that all the stock had been pilfered years ago?

I read an account of a journalist who visited the Green Line a few years ago. I had an interest in reading the article because I lived in Cyprus. This journalist could visit the area as he was allowed to go on patrol with the soldiers guarding the border zone. He sketched a picture of houses left in a great hurry, with plates and cutlery still on the table just as it was left decades earlier. He was surprised to see the brand new, though sun faded, cars in the showroom. But apparently nobody is allowed to take anything from within the Green Line zone because of ownership disputes - no exceptions.

On the other hand, there are plenty of examples of things passing into new ownership involuntary. My mother told me old friends of her, while serving with the UN with the British military, bought a small cottage while stationed at Dekhelia. The house was “repossessed” in 1974 without reimbursement, quite a loss at the time. Just recently their son, as a surprise, bought that very same house, again!

H.