{"id":10501,"date":"2006-09-28T03:11:37","date_gmt":"2006-09-28T00:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/09\/28\/driving-in-cyprus\/"},"modified":"2006-09-28T03:11:37","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T00:11:37","slug":"driving-in-cyprus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/09\/28\/driving-in-cyprus\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving in Cyprus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here is your chance to smile – Sue<\/a> has a post about Cyprus highway code<\/a>. Nicely done.<\/p>\n

There is one thing I can add to what has already been written. When my wife (well, technically girlfriend back then) was going through the process of getting a driving license, I noticed that the “highway code” book she used to study was called “How to pass a driving license exam”. It wasn’t “Traffic rules”, or “Driving safe”, or “What and how of the road”. It was a tutorial on how to pass a driving license exam. Nothing more, nothing less.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Here is your chance to smile – Sue has a post about Cyprus highway code. Nicely done. There is one thing I can add to what has already been written. When my wife (well, technically girlfriend back then) was going through the process of getting a driving license, I noticed that the “highway code” book … Continue reading Driving in Cyprus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15015,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/02\/biggest-ever-road-safety-campaign-in-cyprus\/","url_meta":{"origin":10501,"position":0},"title":"Biggest-ever road safety campaign in Cyprus","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 2, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Cyprus Mail reports: CYPRUS yesterday launched what was described as the biggest road safety campaign in the eastern Mediterranean involving the printing of over a million leaflets aimed at locals and tourists.The leaflets in several languages explaining the island\u2019s traffic codes, will be placed in planes, ships, rental cars, hotels\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14781,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/21\/no-more-cyprus-id-cards-for-foreigners-whats-the-problem\/","url_meta":{"origin":10501,"position":1},"title":"No more Cyprus ID cards for foreigners. 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