Cyprus map
Ryan Air
Start with booking flights to Cyprus. RyanAir is cheap, cheaper if you book early, expensive if you have to go the day before. A couple on our flight had to take different flights when their son was offered the chance to take an O level at school a year early so mother and one of the two children had to go a day later. The mother and exam taking son's flights were a different day and much dearer than the father's and daughter's flights a day earlier and booked earlier.
Our flight out to Cyprus was full, half booked by people going to a wedding. Cyprus holds a lot of weddings for people from the UK and Israel.
Seating and food
Pafos Hotel
Hotel: Casa Mespilea
Behind the front building is a courtyard with hotel bedrooms around it on the ground floor. In the morning you step out to the aroma of growing herbs. The buffet is along the wall of the main buildings. Choose a table under the trees. The buffet included dark bread wrapped around white cream cheese.
After eating, walk around admiring the trees and flowers. The sun casts shadows.
Upstairs on the terrace, used for events, is a view of the distant sea. Alternatively. cross the road for a clifftop view and caffe, a statue with its back to the sea, and Caffe Nero which enjoys the view.
Pafos Seafront
Tombs of the kings
Archaeology floor mosaics
Shipwreck, banana plantation, wineries
Limasol (southern seaport city)
Hotel Eins - noisy on a Friday night. Insects. Cannot park outside to unload suitcases and load up.
Restaurant Meze
Wine Museum
Excellent
Mountain Village Lifou
Agro Vino hotel
Delightful
Greek Orthdox -Cypriot church
Nicosia (capital) (see previous post)
Hotel
Cyprus Museum
Allow at least an hour. Make sure to see the room of gravestones and translated
inscriptions.
Observatory - on the Greek side.
Great to see the layout of both sides of the old city.
Classic Motorcycle museum.
Turkish occupied side
Great Inn (Buyuk Han), a courtyard where you sit in the open air. We had lunch there. Very pleasant.
The attendant guarding the entrance to the communal toilet makes a small charge. So keep some change for yourself and your companions.
Larnaka
Hotel Indigo
Plain facade but luxurious inside. Great menu. Expensive. My husband's favourite hotel.
George's Villa guesthouse
A farmhouse in fields just off the motorway. Dogs, cats, ducks, birds, delightful hosts, chatty, cheerful George and his smiling Vietnamese wife Hana. She makes breakfast for 5 Euros per person and brings it up on a tray, beaming as if you are doing her a favour.
Up an outside staircase. George and Hana help you up with your luggage. Insect netting on windows. Big spa bath. Shower with loads of buttons. Loads of wall sockets, cupboards, hangers and fully equipped kitchenette and big glass top desk with a map of the world.
George drives ahead of you to point out the best local restaurant along the off the motorway strip.
When we left, he said, "I wish I could have talked to you longer."
We felt the same.
Useful Websites
Casa Mespilea, Paphos
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