Socoriky Beach Club Larnaca

... despite the UN resolution.

Depending on who you ask, each side was responsible for this or that atrocity and crime and I will just leave it at that. Turkey eventually invaded the island and took the northern third of it as its own territory all the way up to the Green Line. There was almost no passage across it for either side until 2003 when Greek Cypriots were finally allowed limited access. European Union pressures have opened it up to ...

... areas when the fares are on sale. She said we all run into the same problems when it comes to renting a car, etc. I would do maybe $20 but over $100? Forget it.

So here is my one find in Larnaca besides sunburned Russians...The Church of Ayios Lazaros stands right in the middle of town and dates all the way back to the 9th Century and is still in use today. It towers above cheap little souvenir shacks and other tourist oriented shops in the middle of ...

Where Shopping is a Pleasure. Isn't that Publix's slogan? I found a grocery store called Billa where shopping may not be such a pleasure but their checkout stand can put you on a road to some. Now visualize the g rated checkout stand at Publix. All the "racy" tabloids are covered up because God forbid should someone steal a glance at Britney Spears sans panties. Besides, our magazines but a big black rectangle over anything worth looking ...

All packing and cleaning is underway !!! Only 36 or so hours left before we hit the tarmac at Larnaca !! Just need to get the dog wormed and de-flead (not that he has them !), groomed and then buy him a travel box for the flight !

Fingers crossed all our accommodation arrangements have been made for Athens and Samothraki !

... fort ended with us parking the car and eating lunch...a mere
100 yards from the castle. From Larnaka we headed back towards
Limassol in order to visit Ancient Amathous and Kourion. Kourion,
although at the end of the journey, was perhaps my favourite. Here I
saw the ruins of the temple to Apollo as the sun was going down. It ...

... in Turkey, relatively speaking. The
Turkish side was a bit more run down, however, signs of EU
intervention abounded demonstrating new agreements and a desire to
preserve the past. We came upon the top site in Northern Nicosia,
the Selimiye Mosque which combines medieval Christian architecture
with Islamic influence to create a most stunning Mosque. While
walking around the grounds, a gentleman by the name of Rammadan
(pardon the spelling) came and spoke ...

Layover in Larnaca, Cyprus We take a very long bus ride to the airport. After 1 hr of waiting in the waiting room we were informed that the reason we were delayed was we were waiting for the Holy Flame from jeruselum. Who would of guessed!!!!!!!!! So after about 20 minutes we are told we could go board the plane. So we get on and I am stuck next ...

Spent a week in a resort hotel in the city of Limmosal. Toured the entire island except for the Turkish portion on the top third of Cyprus.

Most of the tourist signs are in 1) Greek 2) Russian and last but not least 3) English.

This ...

Arrived in Cyprus with no sleep for 36 hours...Finished Dubai after a fun but very tiring day. Caught the plane to Cyprus after spending a nice time in the fantastic airport. Went to Vienna first, but was only transit to Cyprus so had to stay in airport for 4 hours (felt like 10!)...very boring airport....similar to Auck domestic....yawn...yawn. However, we got our first taste of how expensive Europe is going to be. Approx $7NZ for a poxy Starbucks coffee...David ...

... down to Thailand for another spell of rock climbing at my favorite spot, Rai Leh beach. Six weeks should give me the time to understand the limits of my ability (which I know from now are not great). From Thailand, I will zip down to Kuala Lumpur to visit friends and catch a plane to Australia. After 3 weeks in Australia its off to New Zealand- a place I have wanted to visit for years- for up to a month of touring and trekking. After such ...