Alion Beach Ayia Napa

... to have our long walks, picking snails, mushrooms or asparagus!<br>Nothing is the same. What a disappointment for me, but I am still curious to see the church.<br><br><br>Every single time I visit this beautiful island seems to me that it was just yesterday that I have lived all these things here. The tragedy is that I can't find these things today.<br><br>We used to come during weekends here in this area with my parents, friends and ...

... today. <br> In Greece and Cyprus coach drivers can have lunch or dinner for free if they drive tourists to a restaurant - an agreement has already been made of course. I believe every driver has specific restaurants that takes the people.<br><br>The restaurant is really expensive. I am lucky not to order anything as I sense what is going on, but my friends (all 52flying to Athens) must eat something before their ...

... per Era, Mycenaean, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Frankish, Venetian and Ottoman periods. It covers 9000 years of Cypriot art. <br><br>The rarest collections at the museum are the Neolithic times are pottery, the collection of Roman and Hellenistic glass and the Byzantine collection of ceramic utensils, which are decorated with the ...

... for work early each morning, to come to the salt lake to collect the salt, and late in the afternoon making the same route back again to their homes to rest and get ready for the following morning. Huge sacks were hanging on both sides of their donkeys, and the animals walking slowly one behind the other.<br><br>Salt was piled like small mountains in the round area, and was ...

... was undertaken.<br><br>Extraordinary archeological excavations in the same year revealed the place was inhabited since Neolithic times.<br><br>Nowadays, the monument receives thousands of pilgrims and tourists.<br><br>******<br><br>THE PHOTOS IN THE ENTRY : some were taken in March, and the others the end of October. Notice the difference!

... from the 1st arches (about 2-3 kms) you arrive at the 2nd arches, and after a walk of almost the same distance, (but having to pass the airport-by pass highway-) you arrive at the 3rd and lower arches. At this point you have to look for the old mill, which pumped the aqueduct's water.<br><br>Then for 9 kilometers up to the river, the water &#8211;channel goes underground ...

... colonial buildings of 1879 are found.<br><br>Larnaca was the biggest port and urban centre of the island those days.<br><br>Buildings like the colony&#8217;s Governor&#8217;s building, the chief Port Master house and office, and the colonial port warehouses are some of these old buildings which have now been restored to accommodate the Paleontology museum, the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, the City-Museum and ...

STYLE OF ARCHITECTURE -LARNACA<br><br><br><br><br><br>I am so excited that I am walking in the Traditional neighbourhoods of my hometown. With the camera in my hand I get pictures of older buildings that remind me of those years.<br><br><br><br><br><br>BRITISH COLONIAL STYLE<br><br><br>Many of the buildings in Larnaca are very old. <br>The ...

... their armies in Larnaca in 1570 without any Venetian resistance. Having Larnaca as their supply and naval base, the Turks conquered the whole of the island in 1571. <br>Before it became a mosque, Beyuk Tzami was a Catholic Church devoted to Santa Katerina and it was probably built at the time of Catherine Cornaro, last Queen of the Lusignians (1468 &#8211; 1489). <br><br><br>

... go at cutting a chunk out of the patio, in which he was going to plant a shrub. Well, needless to say, he hadn't quite joined the ends when the power tool blatantly attacked him! The saw took a big chunk out of his arm; luckily a kind neighbour whisked him off to the local hospital where they managed to sew him up. Mary was with a friend at the time visiting Northern Cyprus so was not around to assist. She had only had time to drop off her shopping ...