When walking around the island you will get to interact a lot with people from the culture and they have a lot to talk about when you do. The man at the corner store Angy’s down the way from the Armenian Church was enthusiastic about talking about the town that he grew up in. When he asked where I was from and I said America I feel like he knew the reason I was in his store. He said not for holiday, and I agreed with a no school for archaeology. His face lit up when I said that as he began to type words into his computer. He pulled up a place called Aya Trias Basilica and began to tell me an elaborate story about how his grandmother had told him the story of the woman who lived there. He explained that the woman had a dream that under the big tree on her property, there was something of significance. She was told in her dream that she needed to dig under the tree to find this and she would feel enriched. With a panic, she woke up and frantically told her husband they needed to dig under the tree because her dream told her to. Her husband laughed it off and told her she was crazy. For days after her dream, she insisted to her husband that they needed to dig under this tree and he still did not have it. It took a little while, but the husband finally said fine, you want to dig under the tree you dig under the tree then. The woman went outside and started digging, before she knew it she had found something of great value, she ran back in to show her husband that she was not crazy and her dream was really someone telling her to go here. Her husband then persisted to help her dig under the tree and they found Aya Trias Basilica in Sipahi, Yenierinkoy, North Cyprus. This is a story from a man who grew up in the village not o far from here.

Story by: The counter man at Angy’s (did not give name)