Socoriky Village Larnaca

Hi Had a fantastic holiday I went on the net, and I am not a tech whiz kid by any means but my son told me he had hear about this fab new site www.my-holidayrental.com it was so easy to use and it has not got so many properties that you lose your way but its got enough to pick from I picked Cyprus and called a really nice gentleman that owned the villa we booked and our holiday was my best ever, I will try Spain next and will always use www.my-holidayrental.com

Mrs Ann Fletcher

... and Palm trees, and, children playing full of joy, on the paved promenade, the sea air so brisque and prominent, the rotun d looking cordian player bellowing his sounds across the air waves, the smell of roasted corn on the cob drifts across the night time air.its homely, and its safe here.

I’m off to explore more of this island.

I’ll write soon.

Frances

... I got today from a friend about this country-church here is that the church is built above the ruins of an older temple that was destroyed by the Saracens.

Many times it suffered damages from fires because of the lighted candles that the visitors leave. With the occasional repairs the hagiographies that adorned the country-church were covered.



Virgin Mary is known with the double name of " Vines" from ...

... from Larnaca and tourists enjoying their morning and late afternoon walks in this area out here. A place with sports facilities for all ages.

NOTE:
I received an e mail from a Turk friend this morning after this entry, who wanted to remind me that those days of the War, these Turk-Cypriots suffered as much, even more than Cypriots..
They also had their houses taken, and actually this area of Makenzy ...

... was undertaken.

Extraordinary archeological excavations in the same year revealed the place was inhabited since Neolithic times.

Nowadays, the monument receives thousands of pilgrims and tourists.

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THE PHOTOS IN THE ENTRY : some were taken in March, and the others the end of October. Notice the difference!

... them both because I managed to take some beautiful photos).


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THE PHANEROMENI CHURCH

On the way to the Airport there is the underground chapel of Ayia Phaneromeni. It is a rock cavern with the two chambers, once a pagan tomb.

It is ...

... 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 ...

... just a couple of hours.

Life was peaceful, and almost every weekend we were out. Even in the afternoons of weekdays most of the time we were out in the fields. Picking snails on a rainy day, wild asparagus ,or mushrooms, having long walks in the fields, were some of the activities we had those days.. We grew up learning to love nature, plants and ...

... shut the door and ran away a better man !!! Next door was a fort built by the Ottomen. It was ok but not much there really, but for €1.71, you can't really complain about the price. I walked in, had a look, and then walked out and over to the Agios Lazaros. It's a nice church both inside and out. Apparently, old Laz use to preach here and then actually died here, so he was buried here, (pretty obvious really !!!) but not for long, as he went to Istanbul and then to ...

... at a restaurant to fill my water bottles and confirmed my fears that the main road construction is entering its next stage to continue along this route, changing the coastline forever - not for the good of the tourist but for those how wish to buy retirement homes with a sea view and 20 minute drive to Grine (Kryena). Many plots of land had already been sold and the march along the coast continues. Then a ...