Ketsios Apartments
Travel Blogs from Protaras
One month to go!
... to meet! Can't believe we really are going to all these amazing places. Places where there are elephants and tiger ad bears (no lions as far as I know).
Plan is to go to Thailand, Vietnam. Cambodia and Burma. We have three months, so plan to take things at an easy pace. Will have to anyway, can't be doing with rushing around nowadays, we are retired you know.
Now I have ...
Airport sleepovers
Walked for an hour from the hostel to the bus stop, fair hike. Met an American student studying in israel on the bus with the same flight in the morn. Had great info on traveling and volunteering in west Africa. Me and him both crashed at the airport until 5am check ...
Wednesday 8 August 2012
... They are being tended by a Chinese lady. The lady is quite obviously their servant. She runs errands. One of the errands is to mop the brow of the Cypriot woman elder, sat at the head of the table, and dressed all in black, symbolising she is a widow The Chinese servant also changes the headscarf of the Cypriot elder, again mopping the sweaty brow as she does so. We had seen a Thai lady, certainly oriental, sweeping the floor of a patio to a Cypriot elders house when in ...
CYPRUS 4 Agia Napa and Famagusta
Agia Napa Up to the right hand end of Cyprus, and around 2.5 hours from Paphos, we come to Agia Napa, a very nice beach based resort and a good 2 night stay sort of place to explore this end of Greek Cyprus and also the Turkish ...
Here Comes the Sun, Little Darlin'...!
... br> Before actually heading to the house, we stopped at Hala Saltan Tekke, an important Muslim shrine that is at the edge of a lake so salty that barely anything can live there, according to my host. Also according to my host, itīs where a ton of flamingos make a rest stop every winter. Iīm not sure if thatīs contradictory or not... Anyway, it was really beautiful. There are an incredible amount of cats running around or, more correctly, sleeping ...