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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Travel Snippets - Looking at Larnaka, Latvia, Lithuania

Larnaka
On the southern coast of Cyprus, Larnak is associated with Lazarus, who went to Cyprus after being raised from the dead by Jesus. You can visit the Museum of St Lazarus and St Lazarus church. Also Archaeological and Paleontology museums. Lazarus was an incoming or immigrating resident. Another famous man, an outgoing or emigrating person was Larnaka-born stoic philosopher Zenon who went to Athens.

You can marry on the island of love. Walk along the Palm Tree Parade and if your budget is exhausted there's free entry to the Pieredes Museum.

High street bakeries make honey pastries for Xmas markets and gifts. You can make your own olive oil and carob syrup and cook savouries and sweets on a day in November, organised by the owner of the olive oil factory and olive restaurant in Skarinou village for £53 for residents at Palm Beach Hotel and Bungalows at 4 star hotel, seven night holidays from £557 per person (sharing) in November.
www.planet-holidays.co.uk Planet holidays 0871 871 2234
www.palmbeachhotel.com
wwwlarnakaregion.com
press visits contact Marlen Taffarello 01780 481689 marlen@fcdcom.co.uk
www.visitcyprus.com

Latvia
Latvia - all roads lead to Riga, the capita, European Capital of Culture 2014.  The widest waterfall, called Venta at Kuldiga; wooden toy construction kits for houses, Ligatne underground bunker, latvia.travel/sight/secret-soviet-bunker-ligatne. Museum of fateful objects. riga2014.org
see www.latvia.travel

London
Pestana Chelsea Bridge
Chelsea Bridge Wharf
Sat nav SW8 4PP www.pestana-chelseabridge.co.uk
Marketing and PR priscilla.nascimento@pestana.com

Lithuania
See Vilnius Old town, Grutas Park in the top ten of the world's weirdest museums.
Rye bread and herring and all kinds of potato: sausages, amber processing Amber Road. What's not to like!
www.Lithuania.travel
www.tourism.lt

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