点评:14/11/24 Thursday late evening football
Two of us middle aged guys from London wanted to watch the England v Greece UEFA Nations League rematch (in Athens). We had lost to Greece 2:1 at Wembley on 10th October. This match was important! Our friend was teaching online back at the hotel.
We left our central hotel to venture out into the walled city to find a bar offering sports coverage (we thought that the N Cyprians might want to watch Eng v Gr out of curiosity as they are in another group). Most bars were not the usual local bars with permanent TVs on.
We explored a new area to us that included the twin churches. I asked a group of young men sitting outside Rosa bar if they knew of any bars with football, luckily one jumped up to say 'come along' so we followed. He was the owner of this De Molay bar, his friends said!
We followed him into this amazing space where he drew down the screen on the alter and searched through the channels. Meanwhile Country and Western music was playing and a few people were in the historic building. More were outside in the warm evening.
We decided to stay anyway and have a drink as he was working so hard to serve us! The only local beer they had was Efes Special (4.5%) in the green bottle. We were not interested in the imported (no doubt more expensive) beers.
The very friendly barman joked with us as his boss managed to find the right EXXEN channel.
A few minutes later the warm up started, with lots of adverts, but we were happy. The boss offered to turn up the volume but we said we could not understand the commentary anyway and were happy with the music.
The match began at 21:45 and I took a selfie video to post on fb using their wifi.
Unfortunately at 21:51 the signal was lost and I had to find the boss to restart it. Another guy in the same jacket found it again but we had missed goal #1 (by England!)...ooops. The rest of the show was uninterrupted and we started on our second beer, then third after half time.
The clean toilets were in the sacristy, behind an ancient door, very weird.
After another two goals later in the second half we shared a beer. The owner, Aygun, checked up on us and we took a selfie in his great bar.
By full time extra time it was 3:0 to England. We were happy and quite merry. It must have been a bit weird for the locals to see two tourists reacting to the match with no audio.
We left happy, quite late for us at 23:50, a couple of people were still there drinking. I think that Aygun had made a bit more business that evening with our seven beers. Good luck to him.
On arriving back to our hotel our host said that the bar was about eight years old. We cannot remember it from our visit then.
翻译:14/11/24 周四晚间足球
我们两个来自伦敦的中年人想观看英格兰与希腊的欧洲国家联赛重赛(在雅典)。10 月 10 日,我们在温布利以 2:1 输给了希腊。这场比赛很重要!我们的朋友在酒店在线授课。
我们离开市中心的酒店,冒险进入城墙内,寻找一家提供体育报道的酒吧(我们认为北塞浦路斯人可能出于好奇想观看英格兰与希腊的比赛,因为他们属于另一组)。大多数酒吧都不是通常的当地酒吧,电视一直开着。
我们探索了一个对我们来说很陌生的区域,包括双子教堂。我问一群坐在 Rosa 酒吧外面的年轻人是否知道有足球酒吧,幸运的是,其中一个人跳起来说“来吧”,所以我们就跟着去了。他的朋友说,他是这家 De Molay 酒吧的老板!
我们跟着他进入了这个神奇的地方,他拉下祭坛上的屏幕,搜索着频道。与此同时,乡村和西部音乐正在播放,几个人待在这座历史建筑里。温暖的夜晚,更多的人待在外面。
我们决定留下来喝一杯,因为他正在努力为我们服务!他们唯一的本地啤酒是绿色瓶子里的 Efes Special(4.5%)。我们对进口啤酒(无疑更贵)不感兴趣。
非常友好的酒保和我们开玩笑,他的老板设法找到了正确的 EXXEN 频道。
几分钟后,热身开始了,有很多广告,但我们很高兴。老板提出把音量调大,但我们说我们无论如何都听不懂评论,对音乐很满意。
比赛于 21:45 开始,我用他们的 wifi 拍了一段自拍视频,发布在 Facebook 上。
不幸的是,在 21:51 信号丢失了,我不得不找到老板重新开始。另一个穿着同样夹克的人又找到了信号,但我们错过了第一个进球(英格兰队!)...哎呀。演出的剩余时间没有中断,我们开始喝第二杯啤酒,中场休息后又喝了第三杯。
干净的厕所在圣器室里,在一扇古老的门后面,非常奇怪。
下半场又进了两个球后,我们一起喝了一杯啤酒。老板 Aygun 过来查看我们的情况,我们在他很棒的酒吧里自拍了一张。
加时赛结束时,英格兰队以 3:0 领先。我们非常高兴。当地人看到两个游客在没有声音的情况下对比赛做出反应,一定有点奇怪。
我们高高兴兴地离开了,对我们来说已经很晚了,23:50,还有几个人在那里喝酒。我想 Aygun 那天晚上用我们的七瓶啤酒赚了更多的钱。祝他好运。
回到酒店时,我们的主人说这家酒吧大约有八年历史了。我们记不清当时我们去的时候是什么时候了。