Crown Resorts Henipa Hotel Larnaca

... a visit to Turkey since Turkey controls the show there even though no one else recognizes it?

The Greek side of Lefkosa is fully modern highrise sprawl oriented towards Europe, the signs are in Greek, and the people are mostly Orthodox. Just a few steps the Green Line over the city becomes a lowrise crumbling sprawl of a different world in Nicosia. Just for simplicity I will refer to the Greek side as Lefokosa and the Turkish as Nicosia. Across ...

... an old English **** in a wheelchair with a giant plastic bag containing something he had purchased and this same security guy reached for it. The old man told him to be careful because it was fragile and the old man even made motions not to crush the bag. Mr. Grab At Everything took these motions to mean go ahead and please do crush it and throw it in the trash can. Which he actually did right before our astonished eyes and that old man jumped out of that ...

Where Shopping is a Pleasure. Isn't that Publix's slogan? I found a grocery store called Billa where shopping may not be such a pleasure but their checkout stand can put you on a road to some. Now visualize the g rated checkout stand at Publix. All the "racy" tabloids are covered up because God forbid should someone steal a glance at Britney Spears sans panties. Besides, our magazines but a big black rectangle over anything worth looking ...

All packing and cleaning is underway !!! Only 36 or so hours left before we hit the tarmac at Larnaca !! Just need to get the dog wormed and de-flead (not that he has them !), groomed and then buy him a travel box for the flight !

Fingers crossed all our accommodation arrangements have been made for Athens and Samothraki !

... fort ended with us parking the car and eating lunch...a mere
100 yards from the castle. From Larnaka we headed back towards
Limassol in order to visit Ancient Amathous and Kourion. Kourion,
although at the end of the journey, was perhaps my favourite. Here I
saw the ruins of the temple to Apollo as the sun was going down. It ...

... and old buildings. We
began to come across check-points to cross the green line. For those
of you who are unaware, Nicosia is the last divided capitol in the
world. Half of it is on the Turkish side of Cyprus and half on the
former Greek side. For years it was very difficult to cross from one
side to the other but fortunately regulations have eased and it was
easy to pass through. This meant the first half of the afternoon was
in Cyprus and the second ...

Cyprus We made a very brief stopover in the UK, and gee that was a culture shock in more ways than one, especially after the tropical delights of Bali! Still, we mustn't grumble as the weather was very good for March! After a whistle stop tour of the family and a few friends we headed once again for warmer climes. We boarded one of the first flights on EasyJet's new route from Gatwick to Larnaca in Cyprus. All went well and on schedule, and just over ...

... 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.

... from his world tour. Down the road was the Pierides Museum which has pretty good collection of archaelogical finds. And being a rich family, they kept buying until they gave it back to the country. It was pretty impressive. I had timed my day badly, so I jumped in the car and drove for some time, and then I was back in the UK. Yes I was, as they were given land when they granted Cyprus independence. I hope when Australia gives up the Queen, as a fair swap, we will give ...

... point: Kantou - 6Km west of Limasol End point: Trodos Via: Vouni (Limasol Donkey Sanctuary), Platres. Odom(Km): 47.27 Moving(hrs.mim): 5.11 Ave(Km/h): 9.1 Total Ascent(m): 1848 Max Altitude(m) 1700 Max Speed(Km/h): 55.7 Climbing up the steady gradient I came across signs for the "Friends of the Cyprus Donkey Sanctuary" www.donkeycyprus.com Intrigued, I had visions of British middle class animal lover ...