Alina Apartments
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Alina Apartments Paphos

Paphos, Cyprus

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Cyprus in spring - March 2012

A travel blog entry by ludtjes

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... speedy and no physical exercise), you can get mighty cold. Even when wearing long trousers and a pully.

Apparently, the winter temperature seldom does below zero degrees C. As soon as the temperature starts to rise, lots of flowers start growing and blossomming. It's hard to give names for the plants we see, but almost everything is lush and green and the sides of the road are full of small flowers. Only the figue, the Carob/Johannisbrot and ...

De lokale bakker

A travel blog entry by ludtjes

... engelse Cheddar en een nederlandse Edam. De feta is mij wat onhandig onderweg want te soppig; ik hou niet van cheddar, dus kies ik voor de Edammer. Zij kijkt goedkeurend en zegt nog dat de kaas goed is, want die komt uit Nederland. Ik zeg dat ik ook uit Nederland kom. Een luid "Oh", geklap in haar handen, waarna ze me even aanraakt om het nog echter te laten zijn.
Zij vertelt dat ze uit een dorp verderop komt en het hier goed heeft, want het is zo mooi ...

We have arrived!

A travel blog entry by ludtjes

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... and warmed us some real dutch erwtensoep (pea soup) with extra meat.
The third one was a 72 year old German (the coast of Cyprus is full of "emigrants") who was new on couch surfing, had a beautiful bed room, organised pita bread (with filling) and a real german breakfast.

The next day (day 5 AL) we viewed some more mosaics (there were once lots of rich Romans here, despite the fact, that the Cypriots think about themselves as Greek) and then left ...

Doris & Betty

A travel blog entry by jobloor

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... mosaics. The site is extensive and the remains well restored although there is obviously still a lot of work to be done.

Some of the mosaics are handily labelled in Greek, I swear one says Doris but Albert assures me it is a Greek goddess. On checking on Wikipedia it seems however that there was a Greek Sea Nymph called Doris, ...

Bridge, engine room and lots of sailing

A travel blog entry by v-nessa

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In the evening we had a BBQ dinner.
There is no fixed seating at the dinners so every meal we meet new people and have intersting conversations. Lots of guests have been on the Sea Cloud or her sister Sea Cloud II several times (some up to 15 times) so they have lots of stories to tell. Also some of the crew members have been working on the ship for as long as 30 years. Crew and passengers seem like a big ...