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Kalavas

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    • Day 155

      Chill times

      October 9, 2023 in Cyprus ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C

      Havent had much to update you guys on recently because we've just been vibing out and doing nothing (as you can see from the map ahaha). Spencer had an appalling cold all week so he's just been watching Seinfeld and coughing constantly and I've been taking myself to the beach and relaxing :). I started doing laps at the beach to get fit for Morocco and lucky I did because I'm in catastrophically bad shape atm, much worse than I expected. Hopefully by the end of the month I'll be back to normal and ready to rip!

      Peace. 😎
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    • Day 159

      Casino

      October 13, 2023 in Cyprus

      It seems like the main reason anyone really comes to cyprus is because you can gamble here. There are a bunch of casinos all over the place and a really large proportion of the cars we see driving around are fancy sports cars. We've been quite slack so far and haven't done much touristy stuff so the other night we decided we'd go check out a casino (the only tourist attraction we know about in our area ahah). We walked because it was only about 1km away from our house and when we got close we saw there was a bunch of smoke billowing out of the top of the building, it almost seemed like it was a fire. When we got in we found out that youre allowed to smoke inside and literally everyone does but the room isnt smokey so I think all the smoke outside was literally just everyone's second had smoke being pumped out. w
      We weren't really feeling it at the start because barely anyone spoke English and it took us ages to figure out how to get chips n stuff but we stuck it out and thank god we did because we had a sick night! There's tons of waiters roaming around and if you call them over you can ask for anything you want to drink or eat and they'll go off and get it for you for free!! We ordered a ton of cocktails and straight spirits and I also had like 5 fajita wraps. I had terrible luck and lost all my money ($20) in the first 30 minutes so I spent the whole night pretending to gamble and ordering as much as I possibly could. Even though I lost I walked away kinda feeling like I'd made a profit ahah. Spencer won about 50 bucks so he was even more stoked. I think for the rest of the trip we'll be going to the cas for a quick pretend bet and a free dinner :). Only thing that kinda sucked was that all the table games had $50 minimum bets so we could only play pokies and the automated roulette.

      Had Arabic the other night, it was about $30 each to share that big banquet. Pretty expensive tbh but it was tasty
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    • Day 169

      Last days and cool sunset

      October 23, 2023 in Cyprus ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C

      Just a couple pics from the last few days. There's a building site next to our apartment that's really tall so we went there for a beer and a sunset, it was superb, too bad be kept forgetting to go there all trip ahaha. We also stumbled across a more touristy looking plaza area when we were roaming around looking for an extra suitcase yesterday. It was good to see that this town does have some nice tourism infrastructure, I was thinking it was a bit bleak. Getting free food was a great success this whole trip, we saved a fortune. Unfortunely we ended up getting a bit carried away on Saturday and ordered too many cocktails which meant we weren't gambling with our usual discipline. I ended up losing the $20 I had been stretching out all week but its fine it was a fun night.
      Excited for Egypt!!
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    • Day 147–148

      Homeless night going to cyprus

      October 1, 2023 in Cyprus ⋅ 🌬 26 °C

      Last night we had our second homeless night of the trip. Our flight to cyprus didn't land until 3am and we weren't able to find a good airbnb for last night so we slept at the airport. For the first few hours we just sat in baggage claim, I dozed off for an hour or so and when I woke up we were the only people in there which was super eerie. Eventually someone came and told us to leave so we went out into the main entrance and found that about 100 other people had also elected to sleep in the airport instead of getting accommodation! Sleeping in the foyer with all the other travellers felt way less sketchy and I managed to sleep soundly until 730 :), spencer didn't really manage to sleep at all. We ubered to the airbnb around 745 and then waited at the beach while they cleaned it for us. The water was so great after the long night, we saw some people fishing which looked pretty fun so were gonna try find a rod to hopefully catch dinner for a couple of the nights. Were also hoping to get some goggles and find some crays. Another successful travel day, was far easier and less tiring than I expected :)).Read more

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