Chrysafinia Hotel Apts. Polis

... Indian Ocean (Goa, Maldives, Seychelles, Sri Lanka) the Caribbean Islands ( Antigua, Grenada, Nevis, St Kitts, St Lucia, In July 2008 I visited the island of Cyprus. The island is mountainous and dry, typically Mediterranean, the ...

We stayed in Polis for the morning and left after a last lunch at one of the restaurants in town. We were sorry to leave Polis, it's a lovely little place, so relaxed and quiet, we got very comfortable there! We headed off down to Paphos and looked around the Fort & the ruins of Old Paphos before watching a stunning sunset over the sea, having dinner in the harbour and heading back to the airport to fly home...

We stayed local today, but the beach at Polis isn't that great so we scooted down the road to Latsis and the beach there. Latsis (or Latchi) was once a small village by the sea but now it's enveloped in new developments of holiday villas. It's sort of stretched out along the road with a few restaurants and bars n the middle. The beach is nice if you go to the bit behind the restaurants as the main road ...

... across the mountains. And this began Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. Now, if<br>you have read previous entries I'm new to driving on the left. And<br>I'm was new driving around mountains...and on gravel....dirt<br>roads.....and the like. As you will see from the pictures the views<br>were stunning but the journey to cover a mere 20 kilometres took us<br>close to two hours. It was exciting in the end and the views were<br>spectacular.<br>

... me in line at the baggage drop off point had their<br>heads...well lets just say in not a very nice place. They weren't<br>watching the counter with eagle eyes like I was, waiting to pounce<br>the moment the first counter was available. So I informed them<br>whenever one open up. GO! GO! GO!<br>My friend was a few people behind me<br>and the people behind me, sensing my increasing paranoia allowed him<br>to join me in line. In retrospect, as my ...

... Mediterranean island, and is unlike the other traditional hotels. The following day I had a busy schedule of visits to the other hotels in our programme starting with the Annabelle LINK located in central Paphos overlooking the bay. This hotel is the best in Paphos Bay, right on the beach and with a selection of rooms and suites with sea view. There is a beautiful swimming pool surrounded by lush gardens and palm trees. Next door the Hotel Almyra LINK is designed in a ...

Having a car we decided to take ourselves off to spend the day at Coral Beach which, we'd heard, was one of the nicest in Cyprus. It's about half-way between Polis &amp; Paphos and took about 45 minutes to drive to. The town wasn't particularly nice, a bit like Blackpool, and we were glad we had decided to stay in Polis (we had been looking at hotels in Coral Beach but they were quite expensive ...

... Kykos we drove on a bit to a little village called Pedolas which has an incredibly old Byzantine church. It also has a musum stuffed full of icons from various local churches. The museum and church are owned and run by people who live in the village and we met a couple of real characters! We drove back to Polis &amp; were back in time for dinner at one of the restaurants in the town. Lovely day!

... it's pretty long. We walked a smaller circular route that took about 3 hours, it was gorgeous. It was very hot &amp; we were glad to have taken plenty of our own water because there are no facilities except at the entrance. We stopped for a late lunch at a beachside restaurant in a little village called Latsis on the way back to Polis.

... km west of Pedoulas, one of the wealthiest and best-known monasteries in Cyprus.<br><br>The first President of Cyprus, Archibishop Makarios the 3rd started his ecclesiastical career here as a monk in 1926.His request to be buried there materialized after his deathin 1977. His tomb lies 3 km west of Kykkos monastery and remains a popular visitor destination.<br><br><br><br ...