Wednesday 16th May Up reasonably early to consume our strange mixture of foods before catching a bus up to the intra state bus terminal for the 10.30 bus to Limassol. One thing Cyprus does very well is to run the buses on time & at about 10.29 for the princely sum of €4 each we set off on the 1 hour journey. The bus terminated at the new port outside a most impressive but absolutely locked up cruise terminal building with no toilets available. Another ...

Thursday 17th May d*** was expecting an easy day but after breakfast, we walked towards the tourism centre & found a remarkable private archeological museum housing items from 2000Bc until the middle ages. Some of the ancient ceramics were quite extraordinary in there design & state of preservation & a lot of work had gone into curating the collection. From there we visited the tourism centre as planned & secured a bus timetable for tomorrow ...

Tuesday 15th May Yet another day of hard visiting. After a basic breakfast we invested in day tickets for the local bus network & went down to the harbour bus station & then caught another to the 'Tombs of the Kings' archaeological site which covers about a square kilometre of tombs of varying sizes excavated & tunnelled into the limestone with multiple rooms. The fashion began in about 300 BC & was strongly influenced by Egyptian practises o...

Monday 14th May After a very spartan breakfast in the room we walked down the road to the tour pick up point. One thing the Cypriots all seem to be is punctual & at 8am 3 buses turned up & we joined ours to go to the bus station. Here we divided into 2 groups, one for Russian speakers & the other for English speakers. After some careful consideration we joined the latter group as we knew our Russian was pretty poor. The bus took off & picke...

Saturday 12th May We both slept well & thought we should get out early to visit Kourion, an ancient abandoned Roman town set in hills above a fine small plain. Mistake one was that nothing was open before about 8.30. We had walked round all the cafes but none would serve us as they were setting up for the day. Eventually we managed to get orange juices across the road & we set off to find the local bus depot after a couple of false starts as street ...