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    • TravelerZypern
      Day 30

      Zypern/Archäologische Park Pafos

      December 15, 2020 in Cyprus ⋅ 🌧 17 °C

      Es war sehr beeindruckend 🤗:
      Der Archäologische Park Pafos ist das umzäunte Ausgrabungsgebiet der antiken Stadt Paphos in der heutigen Stadt Pafos an der südwestlichen Küste Zyperns. Es umfasst ca. ein Drittel der antiken Stadt.[1] Der Bereich gehört zum UNESCO-Weltkulturerbe. Gegründet wurde die Stadt vermutlich schon im 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr., schon bevor sie eine Stadt des Ptolemäerreichs wurde. Die erhaltenen Reste von Bauwerken stammen überwiegend aus der nachfolgenden römischen Zeit.Read more

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    • TravelerFlos on the go
      Day 167

      Paphos at sunset

      February 18, 2016 in Cyprus ⋅ 🌙 19 °C

      After a lovely walk along the coastal path from our hotel to the harbour, we stopped to watch the local fishermen catch their dinner (a squid/cuttlefish hybrid which aparently makes great calamari!) whilst the sunset dramatically behind them.Read more

    • TravelerCyprus 2018
      Day 2

      Cyprus 1

      May 3, 2018 in Cyprus ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C

      A a slightly late start whilst we recovered from the journey. Cars handed over and we went off to the tomb of the Kings. This was ptolemaic era burial area largely for the administrative level people. Much of the area has been lost to quarrying but there are some good tombs left. It is a large site not far from the coast and there were some nice views. Some of the tombs were quite extensive and could have contained a lot of bodies. Even in the most accessible ones though the general public were only allowed into the first or occasionally second chamber. In the end the 32 degree heat and bright sun was too hot for us and we retreated back to Paphos for lunch. We flopped into the first cafe we found and munched salad.

      Afterwards we purchased hats(me and beth, sandals (libby ) and wine (Danny) as required before heading back to the hotel. We deposited our purchases and went to test the pool. A perfect temperature and not too busy as the season is still fairly low. A little light swimming and much reading before going off to get ready for dinner.

      Came down to find everyone assembled and a card waiting for me, as soon as I arrived the waiter was summoned for champagne and my upcoming wedding was celebrated. The combo of spritzers, champagne and a short night previously, left us happy to test the hotel buffet for supper. Extensive and inexpensive it was perfect for our first night. We followed this with a quiz provided by Paddy, Margaret.,Libby and I against Beth, Danny and Isabel.. We won!      Read more

    • TravelerCyprus 2018
      Day 1

      From Glasgow to Cyprus

      May 2, 2018 in Cyprus ⋅ 🌬 27 °C

      From Glasgow to Cyprus. A leisurely start as we weren't due at the airport till 11:30 just in time to have lunch before our early afternoon flight. Of course it didn't quite work like that, there was a huge holdup at the Clyde tunnel....but we were only a few minutes behind schedule, Paddy leans more to the TFE school of travel. Everyone else was at the airport when we arrived and we only needed to do bagdrop as we were already checked in. However, Thos Cook Airlines couldn't organise the proverbial booze up and so they didn't separate the bag droppers from the checking in crowd and that meant it took almost an hour to put our bags in!

      I was worried that the security would take just as long but actually that was a breeze. So we were soon settled in for lunch and a catch up. It didn't seem like long before our flight was called and we loaded onto our shiny new plane. This included the most space saving seats I have ever seen and no leg room. This was my first "holiday" flight for some years.... So the people loading up included an admiral and someone modelling "Top" Gun" style whites. There was one hen party, one stag party and a couple getting married on Cyprus, who were still resolutely doing hand luggage only so they had two suitcases and a huge box with a wedding dress in it all to be stashed in the overhead lockers.
      Up up and away and the drinks service came round... It was soon after that the volume from the back of the plane, where the stag party was, increased somewhat. I did wonder at one point if we were going to be in one of those newspaper stories about drunken escapades but fortunately it never quite got to that level. We were fortunate (?) enough to have a meal provided on the 5 hr flight... The tiniest portion of sausage and mash you have ever seen James Martin should be ashamed, it was like a poor school dinner.

      Eventually we arrived in Cyprus after a slightly bumpy flight and efficiently whizzed through the airport and onto our coach, despite a doing a couple of drop offs on the way we were at our hotel by about midnight local time. A quick stare at my big clean room and to bed.      Read more

    • TravelerCyprus 2018
      Day 4

      Cape and Paphos ArchaeologicalPark

      May 5, 2018 in Cyprus ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C

      So today we headed back out towards Polis but at Pegia we turned off for the Agios Georgios Basilica. This was right out on the coast and was a late Roman /early Byzantine site. Still had some nice mosaics left and what looks like a baptismal pool...that drained the water into a Roman tomb! There were ancient rock cut tombs too according to the map but they were far down towards the road. Some interesting pot sherds left in the path rubble too.

      After wandering around this we headed back to Paphos for lunch, followed by a look at the archaeological Park. Lunch was good: a big avocado salad in a cafe by the sea. Danny did get twitchy though when the slightly harried waitstaff were a bit slow in coming to take our orders.

      After lunch we thought we would have a quick look at the archaeological Park before heading back to the hotel and pool. It rapidly became apparent that the site was enormous and an hour was going to do it no justice. This site was the chief city up until 3rd C CE when it was damaged by earthquakes and replaced by Salamis in the North. Still we walked around and looked at various beautifully preserved mosaics. First of these were at the house of Aion which had a 4th C roman mosaic made of five panels. The house of Dionysius had even more beautiful mosaics including an ancient hellenistic one made of pebbles showing Scylla. We failed to do the site justice in the limited time we allowed and so we plan to return on Wednesday as we can get here without a car.

      Back to the hotel for some reading and swimming time. Also a mohito by the pool...

      Then dinner, I had done some research on the best places to eat nearby and we ended up in Suite48. Unfortunately the music here was a bit loud byt the staff turned it down on request... But sadly one of the staff members kept going back and putting the volume back up which irritated a couple of people. Fortunately the food was good so that was some compensation.      Read more

    • TravelerZypern im Herbst 2020
      Day 9

      Tag 9: auf den Spuren der alten Griechen

      October 18, 2020 in Cyprus ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C

      Jetzt haben wir unseren Zenit schon einen Tag überschritten. Irgendwie traurig. 14 Tage auf der Insel, neun Tage in Paphos. Das wird sich morgen ändern! Denn obwohl wir unser traumhaftes Penthouse-Apartment als Upgrade sehr genossen haben, zieht es uns morgen weiter.

      Der Vormittag wurde am Pool verbracht. Und der Nachmittag brachte dann endlich die Kultur, die wir uns so gewünscht hatten. Es gibt hier ein großes Areal, welches als UNESCO Welt kulturerbe richtig berühmt und geschützt ist. Es geht um Ausgrabungen und es geht um fantastische, ganz besondere Kirchen. Heute haben wir uns die Ausgrabungen mit wunderschönen Mosaiken angesehen. Sogar Lia war einigermaßen beeindruckt. Die griechische Mythologie wurde in 100 tausenden kleinen Steinchen festgehalten. Faszinierend!

      Das Abendessen haben wir dann als Selbstversorger wie so oft mit griechischem Salat auf der Terrasse verbracht. Ab morgen sind wir in unserem schönen Hotel mit „all inclusive“. Obwohl ich diese Art der Hotels und der Verpflegung verabscheue, bin ich gespannt was uns erwartet.      Read more

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