Cyprus Hilton Nicosia

... tissues to wipe their tears, and I , too, am moved by this parade. A friend of mine said that he has never had such a moving moment in his life, on any 28th October ever!<br><br>It is time to leave, and we are ready for our second destination this day. Women show each other what they have bought, and they are all so happy to have had such touching moments out here. Everyone seems to be excited and a good sign of a successful trip! <br><br><br><br>

... abstract art of the contemporary world.<br><br><br><br><br><br>City Museum and Archives<br><br><br><br>The municipal museum is housed in a 1881 building, which was the residence and office of the first colonial Port Master of Larnaca.<br><br>On the ground floor is the City museum with exhibits emphasizing the long, glorious and uninterrupted history of ...

... every 30 meters you can see the "visiting wells" of this unbelievable project, which channeled the water of the river Tremithos to Larnaca till the 1950&#8217;s,<br><br>Many researchers and historians believe that this tremendous public work has existed since Roman times. <br><br>It was reconstructed in 1745 on the basis of the surviving facilities. It goes back to the ...

... The best surviving examples of this architecture in Larnaca are a) Ieronymos Varlm House on Chryssopolitissa Street, b) Efthimiades House at Nicolaou Laniti Street, c) the Larnaka Club opposite Pierides Museum on Zenonos Kitieos Street. <br><br>Similar buildings survive in the Skala Turkish quarter along Piale Pashia Street.<br><br><br><br>

... The minaret is built on the foundation of the bell tower. Opposite this mosque there is an elegant stone built public water fountain of the Venetian period reused by the Ottoman aquaduct of 1747. <br><br><br><br>It survives in a very good condition and it is decorated with an engraved &#8211;clock in Latin characters. According to historical sources the Venetian governor ...

The plane landed, and i got off the plane to feel the heat radiating off of the airport tarmac. absolutely loved the heat after hacking and caughing with a nasty sickness in england. <br>Luke and his dad were at the airport in larnaca to great me as planed and i was super pumped to spending time with luke and soaking up some major sun. luke and i had met back in 2003 whilst ...

... entirely new world that is unexpected and a real sensory overload. I can't even describe the poverty on the Turkish side compared to the Greek side and I can't imagine what life must have been like all those years of war, genocide and then being cut off from the world. I can't imagine life there now for that matter. But for now it's just an interesting way to spend an afternoon scouring the last divided capital city in the world for insights into life ...

... of Girne as a marine. "I don't know why," he said. "The castle is there. You walk around. You eat. And then, a little raki. Do you know the Turkish raki? The white alcohol, a little water. And the best thing is the discuss. Slowly, slowly." In 1974, when the Greeks had tried to drive the Turks off Cyprus, Muset had been one of the Turks who fought back. There'd only been six "hot" days, he said, days when shots were fired. He was a part of an ...

... of the island, and the northern half of Nicosia (the Capital). I took picture of the green line (the line that divides the city into two). Part of the Old Town that touches that line has been deserted, as you will see in some of my pictures. This is the city that I will be leaving in for 6 weeks.

This is the first entry in this blog, and unfortunatly it comes while I am in Cyprus. The heat has continued these past days after a surprising 2 days of cool. Last week the news paper said that the heat index (heat + humidity) topped out one day at 51°C (124°F), the highest in the past 30 years. The ocean is nice, but my ...