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Mrs Ann Fletcher

... from Limassol); towards Limassol, then northeast past Kedares to Platres (from Paphos)

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OUR VISIT

We are here this morning after breakfast. For many of my Greek friends this is their first visit up here.

We are driven to (throni) first, and the view is stunning. The beautiful vegetation of the area and the whole atmosphere of the place ...

... to have our long walks, picking snails, mushrooms or asparagus!
Nothing is the same. What a disappointment for me, but I am still curious to see the church.


Every single time I visit this beautiful island seems to me that it was just yesterday that I have lived all these things here. The tragedy is that I can't find these things today.

We used to come during weekends here in this area with my parents, friends and ...

THE MAKENZI AREA


After the war with the Turks in 1974, this place here,- a short walking distance from the Larnaca airport, had become a shanty area. A favela in reality, with one restaurant next to the other, most of the owners refugees, coming from the north part of Cyprus who found this place here to create their small little business those days. The majority of them had lost their properties and ...

THE HALA SULTAN TEKKE

Founded in 649 A.D.



This historic mosque is just 3 km west of Larnaca very near the airport terminal on the central salt lake.

Um Haram who was the Aunt of Prophet Mohamed died here as a result of an accident.

This mosque is now considered to be the fourth most important religious ...

... Lazarus escaped to ancient Kition on 33 A.D. and it became his second home for 30 more years.

His tomb lies under the sanctuary and can be visited. St. Lazarus is the patron saint of the city. He was ordained Bishop of Kition by Saints Barnabas and Mark.

Visitors can ...

... were waiting patiently for the man to have his car out of the way, and the poor guy was asking for some help in the Cypriot dialect which is a bit different from the Greek. My Greek friends could not understand a word of what this guy was saying and the words were like this:



Cypriot : "En tzila….Tanate mou"



My friends were hearing this ...

... Turkey...  tasting wine at a minuscule family run vineyard...   our 15 Kilometer hike along the coastline of the Akamas Peninsula... exploring the underground tombs built for the wealthy ancient Romans that long ago peopled this area... driving Brit style along the windy roads navigating through the many banana plantations... watching Animal Planet, cartoons and other mindless, yet entertaining television programs into the late ours of the evening ...

... ambassadors turned columnists, authors and photographers for media of incomparably larger influence than mine. Rediscovering modesty and humility was so very relaxing and liberating. That experience, the people around, especially the encounters with Recep Tayup Erdogan, the prime minister of Turkey who was there for three full days, opened up an immensely human dimension of this obviously very important political event. I new I was very, very lucky to have been invited to ...

... not that lively and most things were shut. I visited the monuments, toured the streets and followed the boundary. Many building are in a sorry state of decay and much money has been spent of renovation - supplemented by European grants. One thing that struck me are the number of men on the street and they were clearly members of the Turkish army. They sat around waving their dog collars, chatting on ...