To Nicosia / Lefkosia

Today was wet and windy ( fortunately though we didn’t hear the extreme weather warning) so we drove to Nicosia aka Lefkosia.
A bit of an exciting drive - blowy over a couple of the viaducts, also a petrol stop where there was a bloke to pump the petrol for you!
We’d identified a parking place and set Waze so a pretty straightforward drive in and then we were just 3 mins from the museum.
The Cyprus archaeological museum is great, not a huge museum but excellent. All sorts of stuff from really old 7000 years BCE to roman remains.
Some of the most amazing items are the figurines including stylised figures from Choirikiotia and later figurines from a Cypriot figurine stash a little reminiscent of The Terracotta Army. Which seem to have been largely shipped to Sweden under some dodgy deal.
We spent a happy morning ignoring the classical statuary and exclaiming over the various figures then we visited the cafe. Which did a lactose free hot chocolate 😀. Whilst we were there there was a demonstration of some sort which came down the road, we enquired what / who/ why. The response was the South Africans ( about what - no idea) but the blokes said there had been another demo the previous day by Iranians but South Africa had more people so had won! Then one bloke turned to the other and said why are they protesting here? To which the other replied ‘because parliament is just there’ pointing over the road!
Then to the shop for a chopping board with a copy of a plank figurine on it and a magnet for the fridge.
Then back into the museum to do some sketching. We spent a happy afternoon doing sketches of our favourite pieces before heading back at about 3:30. I wanted to be back as far as possible in daylight especially given the weather.
Then back for Traitors and Gourmet Night - which was a bit tricky eating wise but Mandy procured extra gravy which made it easier.Read more