Continental Hotel Sea Front Limassol

... river Karkotis, and the modern resort with shops, cafes, banks and even a public swimming pool. The population is about 2.000.

Because of its good vegetation, Kakopetria is known for the good quality of fruit like, pears, apricots, peaches cherry trees, and especially the fine quality of its apples.

There are numerous ancient churches in the area, one of which is Agios Nicolas tis Stegis ...

KYKKOS MONASTERY



The monastery of Kykkos, is the richest and most lavish of the monasteries of Cyprus, found in the region of Marathasa. It is situated on the mountain peak, at an altitude of 1.318 metres northwest of Troodos. It is dedicated to Panagia(Virgin Mary), and was founded sometime between the end of the 11th century, and the beginning of the 12thcentury.


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OUR PARTY IN KAKOPETRIA



I just want to show here, how Cypriots dance and have fun.

Of course I hate loud music, but I hate that I cannot dance all these dances that you see here. This is from our party in the lodge where we are staying, just outside the village, just 3 km from Kakopetria ...

We are up on the Troodos Mountains with my thermos(?)

I ask a friend to take a picture of me with the it, so when my friends saw us taking photos, thinking that I am promoting the product, and I get money out of it, wanted to participate in the promotion!!!
We took many photos, and had fun.

... to say. They speak mostly of what they have eaten. The majority of them are satisfied, but there are one or two who think they paid too much for the lunch they had.



I was disappointed when I heard that one of my friends Yianni, was deceived by a shopkeeper selling him Zivania – 3 small bottles for 20 euros. I was shocked ...

... some wait for the parade to start. We are all scattered here and there, and I am busy taking pictures, knocking on doors to see the inside of houses and gardens, taking photos of women working on their embroideries, and talk with the locals. Everywhere I see happy faces and hospitality. Women seeing me taking photos insist upon offering me a homemade dessert or a cup of coffee. Of course I have no time for such luxury! Men are sitting at ...

Happy 6th Birthday to Zak. Caught the shuttle but into town which was a long way from the ship and it was quite hot, so we didn't walk. Had a look at an old Castle but couldn't take photos so decided not to go right inside. Walked up and down and around all the streets. Went down to the waterfront which had a huge park right along it on the other side of the road. No beach; it was all rocks but quite pretty and relaxing. We had lunch in a Greek cafe where the ...

... way you enter Cyprus is the way you must leave, otherwise the Republic of Cyprus will consider it illegal.

Talk about political hotbeds. We have just left one and entered another, tourist are just sometimes a porn in their games, when all we want is to just travel freely and see what a country has to offer.

Tomorrow we head to Northern Cyprus in search of sand, oh and an escape route.

... had alligator fights and finally for theatre, plays and music. Perfect acoustics. Next stop was Apollo's Temple again in the throws of being restored. They have reconstucted the temple at the end of the holy/sacred road and there are old aquaducts bringing water and drains to take away the dirty water etc from the baths. There were several public baths from stone cold to med temp and ...

KAKOPETRIA

THE MILL HOTEL

PHOTOS FROM THE OLD VILLAGE

KYKKOS MONASTERY



We came to Cyprus, this time but instead of having beach holidays, we thought of spending a week, up on the Mountains of Troodos first, and have two more weeks down in other hotels next to the beach. My house is in Larnaca, but I always choose to stay in a hotel ...