Cheers from Cyprus

It is disappointing that I am unable to display any of the photographs I have taken of the trip so far. However in three days time I will be back in Athens where the internet connection will allow larger files to be uploaded and downloaded.

Cyprus is Europe's third largest Island in the Mediterranean and is the legendary birthplace of Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty. We docked in the port city of Limassol and jumped on a bus for a tour around Limassol and to its old town centre. Cyprus is close to Greece, Turkey and Syria so its history has been filled with many battles and conquests even as recent as 1975. The landscape is marked with ancient Greek and Roman ruins, orthodox monasteries and crusaders' castles. We visited a couple of the castles but unfortunately one is not allowed to photograph in the castles! My visual impressions of Cyprus are of stone, blue water, green orchards, dry stark, beige mountains, terricotta roofs and castles. Unfortuately we were not able to visit the picturesque small villages where I would have loved to take the photos of the winding streets, blue doors and quaint markets. That is one of the downsides of a cruise where you only spend a few hours in each port.


The cruise has been great so far and the people we have met on the ship come from all walks of life and countries. It has been amazing seeing so many different countries in such a short time. In the past two weeks we have visited Munich, Athens, Mykonos, Istanbul, Bulgaria, Romania, Israel, Cyprus and tomorrow we are off to Egypt. I can hardly wait to see the Pryamids! The trip has been an adventure however there have been some challenges in terms of trying to capture everything in a photographic image. I will discuss this further in my next blog.
Bye for now!!