Classic Hotel Nicosia

... fair takes place on the 13th -14th September, in celebration of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. <br><br><br>OUR VISIT TO THE VILLAGE: <br><br>The choir is arriving early this morning, and I am at the airport waiting for them to come off the plane, together with Mr. Koutsoulides Dimitris- a member of the host choir. <br>For many of them, this is their first trip to Cyprus, and every time I am here in Larnaca I promise myself to do ...

... a visit next month and bring photos are:<br><br><br><br>1. Museum of Paleontology &#8211; Collection of fossil life covering 5.000<br><br>million years. &#8211; bones from pygmy elephants and hippopotamus.<br><br> <br><br>2. Ecclesiastical Museum of St. Lazarus.<br><br><br><br>3. Municipal Museum of Natural History.<br><br>Situated within the Larnaca ...

... I have taken.<br><br>In the years of my childhood, just next to these &#8211;kamares- used to live a family who had many sheep and goats. I remember buying -Halloumi- (Cypriot cheese) from them.<br><br><br><br>The whole area has changed nowadays, and Larnaca has expanded up to this point out here. New modern houses have been built, banks, parks, cinema complexes and ...

... 8220;The building of Cyprus Tourist Organization,&#8221; &#8220;The Central Police Station&#8221;, &#8220;The Governors Residence&#8221;, and &#8220;The Larnaca old Hospital&#8221; near the American Academy.<br><br><br><br>URBAN TRADITIONAL BUILDINGS<br><br>(I got from the tourist information)<br><br><br><br>This is the anonymous ...

THE CASTLE OF LARNACA<br><br>(The Medieval Museum of Larnaca found on the 2nd floor of the castle).<br><br><br><br>The earliest reference to the construction of the Larnaca Fort is 1380 A.D. During the Ottoman occupation a new renovation was made dating 1625 A.D. It was used as a prison, as it was during early British rule. It is now used as a local Medieval Museum, and ...

And to think yesterday my biggest worry was not seeing anything interesting at all in Cyprus. What I saw today absolutely blew me away and had everything I look for in my travels...it was gritty, raw, real and not sanitized for the tourists. To date this is the most fascinating stop on my world tour. I didn't find any natural beauty or spectacular ruins but what I did find is a pretty amazing human interest story. I feel kind of stupid now worrying about ...

... is certainly a great place to vacation in the early fall. Late October and early November was still quite warm to our standards, but the tourist season was over for Eurpeans so it was a good place to vacation as it was moderately priced.<br><br>

... entering. I walked through a roomy interior of maroon carpeting. It was scantily decorated and virtually seat-less. The place killed sound, preserving silence. Bits of strange, silver furniture - one no doubt showing the direction to Mecca - were dressed in bright-orange and yellow and green. I'd always suspected there should be some similarities between Islamism and its geographic neighbors, Hinduism and Buddhism. The open room and bright colors were ...

... me thinking, Islam doesn't really promote itself as a friendly religion, either convert or be closed !!! Around the corner was even more evidence of this. The Cathedral in the centre had been converted into a Mosque when the Ottomans had invaded. In some respect, I feel there had been an improvement, instead of *********es, I was now walking on soft lush carpet. Actually, from the outside, if you took away the minaret, it would actually pass as a church ...

... However as we were driving up into the mountains, and through the low level clouds, we saw a little snow here and there and thought we were lucky as all the snow obviously hadn't melted as we had been told. However it must have snowed last night, because as we drove higher we could see more and more snow lying alongside the road. When we reached as high as we could drive in the slippery conditions, we got out of the car to a winter wonderland, and just then it started to snow again ...