Europa Hotel Nicosia

... All stores and offices close at 2 pm for religious reasons. <br><br>5. Our quick lunch was a chicken pita and very fresh Greek salad washed down with a Heineken (me) and water (Sandra). We made it back to the ship in time to hear David Rifkind&#8217;s lecture for our next stop : Israel. It was entitled The Landscape of Pilgrimage in the Holy Land : Haifa and Jerusalem. We sailed from Cyprus at 6 :10 bound for four busy days ahead in Israel and Egypt.

... village coffee house, also waiting to hear the drums and music, a sign that the parade is coming. <br>Soon it is a fact. We hear the drums and all drop what we are doing and get to the side of the narrow streets to watch the parade coming. <br><br>You can see that pople are moved to tears. As the drums and parade approach, the beat gets louder, and the moment the parade passes from each one of us, it is so special. I see my friends getting ...

... per Era, Mycenaean, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Frankish, Venetian and Ottoman periods. It covers 9000 years of Cypriot art. <br><br>The rarest collections at the museum are the Neolithic times are pottery, the collection of Roman and Hellenistic glass and the Byzantine collection of ceramic utensils, which are decorated with the ...

... from the 1st arches (about 2-3 kms) you arrive at the 2nd arches, and after a walk of almost the same distance, (but having to pass the airport-by pass highway-) you arrive at the 3rd and lower arches. At this point you have to look for the old mill, which pumped the aqueduct's water.<br><br>Then for 9 kilometers up to the river, the water &#8211;channel goes underground ...

... of Larnaca developed in the Ottoman times and was designed to serve the trading needs as well as the residential needs of the wealthy merchants of Larnaca. The owner had his storehouse and office on the ground floor and his family on the first, with the characteristic kiosk over the street for good ventilation and view.<br><br><br ...

... of 1571. <br><br><br><br>Before that it used to be the Catholic Church of the Holy Cross. Built in the 10th or 11th century, this church was founded as an Orthodox Basilica, but, as can be observed, one of its characteristic three corridors was demolished. Its Byzantine origin is also indicated by recently discovered Byzantine wall paintings of Saint George.<br><br><br ...

... visitors about 3.5 miles around the sites behind the Green Line. I followed the course along with a map from the tourist office explaining the old buildings. The Green Line and its fencing make an appearance every once in a while at the end of a block and I can't describe the feeling to be standing in a poverty stricken row of homes where just across the Green Line modern highrises and prosperity rise above it.<br><br>So yes, sometimes traveling opens up ...

... long, ribbon-like hair drove me, and he was a professional soccer player for the local Galaxy; soccer-playing is Turkish Cyprus's second religion. Muset Gunsev drove me the eighteen kilometers from Girne to Nicosia, one day. He was a sixty-year-old whose success as a marine, an author of two books, and a news anchor had left him with the happy energy of a newlywed. He told me how, before he'd moved to Cyprus from Istanbul, he'd fallen in love with the ...

I arrived in Cyprus in June 2nd. I had to fly into Larnaca International airport because the one in Nicosia has been shut down because of the Turkish invasion of 1974. Nicosia is the only divided capital left in the world today. The Turkish troops invaded in 1974, and now occupy the northern ...

... to Milan (boat, train, bus???). We have out tickets out of here but... It's out of Ercan Airport, which was where the recent Atlas Jet plane, that was highjacked, took off from. Why did it have to be hear and now? All the better, I guess, so it won't happen to anyone else. Will update from Zurich.