Malpas Kyrenia

KAKOPETRIA VILLAGE

This beautiful village is just 15 km from Mount Olympus.

It is a very popular summer resort, but during winter is also popular with skiers, and people who come here to relax for the weekend and walk in the beautiful natural trails found in the area.

Kakopetria is divided into two parts; the original, medieval settlement which is situated on the east bank of ...

TRADITIONAL DANCERS

This will give you an idea of what happens at a traditional Cypriot dinner party.

After the festival, we have a dinner party, all the choirs together.
Cypriot traditional dancers open the programme, and finally we are all ...

... was greatly appreciated firstly from his friends, but also from the people of the museum.

^^^^^^^

Our next stop is the Cypriot Museum: Priceless and fascinating collections of Cypriot antiquities and art treasures from the Neolithic age to the early Byzantine period. A worth to visit place. You will be thrilled! We also visit Archibishop's Palace.

We move on to Lydras, in the centre of Nicosia. It is ...

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I do however know how to admire my friends, and have fun.

Again I want to thank the people from the ATHK choir who did their very best to make our trip to Cyprus unforgettable.
It was fun, and indeed the Greek people left with the best impressions of Cypriot hospitality.

... fair takes place on the 13th -14th September, in celebration of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.


OUR VISIT TO THE VILLAGE:

The choir is arriving early this morning, and I am at the airport waiting for them to come off the plane, together with Mr. Koutsoulides Dimitris- a member of the host choir.
For many of them, this is their first trip to Cyprus, and every time I am here in Larnaca I promise myself to do ...

... the path. The weather had turned rather hot by this time and so, after lunch we decided to turn back to the vehicle and call it a day. A bit of a failure but at least we gave it a go. Second attempt was much better. The route, west to east had been checked by Compo who found the correct path. Having decided to make an early start to get the best of the cool weather we set off from our houses at 0745 and met at the No. 30 way marker. As it was May Day in the ...

... we set of heading east along the track that ran though some pines and other trees. This might have been a fire break however it did give us occasional shade from the now mid day sun. Unfortunately some of the pine trees had this nasty caterpillar (Pine Processionary Caterpillar) that wove webs around the pines and apparently would eventually kill the tree. The trees gave way to more fields of crops where the earth was very red in colour and ...

... genitals were thrown in to the sea by his son...and who wants to see that? I bet you never thought I'd use the phrase 'severed genitals' in this travelogue. I was disappointed to find out there are no passenger ships to Greece (only expensive cruises) so I booked a flight out of Cyprus for the next day, coinciding with Aaron's departure. I'll fly to Athens, while he flies on to Dublin taking home his THREE jumpers (he came for a week and it's over 35 degrees here).

... setoff with the intention of going to Kryena, backtracking through Turkey to the west coast where I can get a ferry to Rhodes. I passed the office where I had been informed there were no ferry boats - not even cruse ships. I went back in and made sure I didn't sit in front of anyone I had seen before. I explained my predicament. The same answer was given. We can arrange for your bike to be shipped while ...

... to the south passed 5pm would place me on the UN's "Black List". As with most new cities, I walked around the town to get acquainted with it. A contrast from it's southern half, the Muslim north half was speckled with mosques and arabic calls to prayer filled the air. I visited a few museums, one of which was a bloody, gut wrenching account of one particularly horrendous event which took place during the war. Greek men had stormed a Turkish doctor's house and murdered ...