Golden Bay Cyprus

This travelogue highlights the nomadic wanderings of a pair of international teachers and their two boys. After traveling, studying, working and living in many countries around the globe, we settled back into the States for a spell... had our children, ...

Packed my bag and left the house

... is to leap from the rocks in the sea at CAPE OF GRECO. This is found on the east of Ayia Napa. Another one is THE NEW GOLDEN BAY, or LANTA beach as it is known by the locals. It is a less busy beach with a number of activities available. PANTAHOU beach, ...

... nbsp; Although we have since found out that the hotel was the first to be built in the area, after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, and the UN buffer zone being established making Famagusta a ghost town.  It was built originally as two blocks then the ...

... vast depression ahead of predominantly agricultural land with fields in many shades of green interspersed with the occasional field of golden barley waiting to be harvested. This whole pastoral scene was complimented by the clonking sound of many cow and ...

... was lost or burnt in the 1950s but a local artist, Mark Trinham, sculptured a replacement recently from the trunk of a dead Cyprus pine growing close by. This coast has many shipwrecks resting in their deep ocean graves Then it was onto the GOR and ...

... the cottages across the expansive lawn. We took a nature walk (interesting footing after days of rain!) through the rainforest at the Golden Rock Estate, a quaint historic inn on 96 acres at the base of Mount Nevis. We sat on one of their stone ...

... heat of the day. Walk across the creek from our camp, part of the Heysen Trail, then climb along a passable road through Cyprus pines into hilly country, where we get good views back toward the main range, and forward to Red Hill. Descend to cross ...

...  I saw about 500 Rodin sculptures including the original Thinker. Also a small display of artefacts from early copper age Cyprus and Mesopotamia, odd in a building dedicted to French art. Finally down to the Presidio, the original garrison site going ...