Disillusioned with life in Britain and arriving at old age sooner than we wanted, my wife and I decided to sell up and move to sunnier shores. But when we put our house up for sale we had little idea that the Credit Crunch was about to hit us and that we would lose thousands when the sale finally happened. To make matters worse, within three hours of stepping off the plane in Cyprus, we realised we were in a very foreign land. Suddenly it dawned on us; we were nowhere near ready for what Cyprus had to offer us. Our dogs were lost at the airport; we lost thousands on the sale of our house and were to be evicted from our rented villa after only three weeks of living there. Welcome to Cyprus.