Palati tou Xylari Agrotourism Paphos

We are up on the Troodos Mountains with my thermos(?)

I ask a friend to take a picture of me with the it, so when my friends saw us taking photos, thinking that I am promoting the product, and I get money out of it, wanted to participate in the promotion!!!
We took many photos, and had fun.

We stayed in Polis for the morning and left after a last lunch at one of the restaurants in town. We were sorry to leave Polis, it's a lovely little place, so relaxed and quiet, we got very comfortable there! We headed off down to Paphos and looked around the Fort & the ruins of Old Paphos before watching a stunning sunset over the sea, havi...

We stayed local today, but the beach at Polis isn't that great so we scooted down the road to Latsis and the beach there. Latsis (or Latchi) was once a small village by the sea but now it's enveloped in new developments of holiday villas. It's sort of stretched out along the road with a few restaurants and bars n the middle. The beach is nice if...

Thursday, July 2, 2009—Paphos
This morning we headed over to the Kato
Pafos Archaeological Park and checked out the local ruins. After
about forty minutes we were too hot and headed back to the car. We
proceeded to drive north to the Baths of Aphrodite and from there we
deduced that there would be some beautiful co...

1 July 2009—Flight to Paphos



Alarm was set for 6:30. It was decided
that we would catch the 7:31am Gatwick Express from Victoria Station.
Breakfast opened at 7am. We quickly scarfed down a few nibbles and
took a taxi to the station. We ran. The doors were closing as we
glided down the escalator and ...

Having a car we decided to take ourselves off to spend the day at Coral Beach which, we'd heard, was one of the nicest in Cyprus. It's about half-way between Polis & Paphos and took about 45 minutes to drive to. The town wasn't particularly nice, a bit like Blackpool, and we were glad we had decided to stay in Polis (we had been looking at h...

We set off quite early to drive up to the Kykos Monestary, one of the more famous monestaries high up in the mountains where Archbishop Makarios retired to and is buried (he was the first and fourth president of Cyprus). We took our time driving up, the roads are good but very twisting, and there are some magnificent views that should be stopped...

We drove about 15 mins down the road from Polis to the Akamas Penninsula, a nature reserve / national park. This is where the Baths of Aphrodite are, a pretty little grotto where the Greek Goddess of Love was supposed to come and bathe. We walked on from the Baths to the Aphrodite Trail - a walking route that goes around the whole penninsula, it...

We explored the little town of Polis. It's a sweet place, a tourist town but it wasn't busy & full of people - maybe it was the time of year. The beach isn't great and we didn't stay there long. There are lots of restaurants of various types and budgets. Mariela Apartments suits us down to the ground - I imagine it gets very very busy in-sea...

We landed in Paphos at about 8pm and went straight to pick up the hire car. Discovered that in Cyprus you have to pay for a full tank of fuel in addition to the hire charge - something certainly not made clear by Europcar at time of booking! Anyway, we headed out of the airport - as Brits we found it easy to drive in Cyprus, same side of the roa...