Saturday, 17 December 2011

Around and about

We’ve been spending our time touring Cyprus in the last week.



Some of the highlights are:



-         visiting North Cyprus, illegally occupied by Turkey since 1974. This included the Monastery on the site said to be the burial place of one of the first Missionaries to Cyprus, Barnabus.

-         Malcolm visited the ‘Baths of Aphrodite’, where myth has it the Goddess used to bathe during her love affair with Adonis

-         Visits to the sites which were central to the life of the first President of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios – his birth place (Panagia), where he was first trained as a priest (Kykkos Monastery), where he was Archbishop (Nicosia) and his grave, which has become a national shrine



And, just to remind us of winter, even though the temperatures have been about 20 deg C, up in the mountains there has been snow, and the ski slopes should open in January. (What? Ski slopes in the Mediterranean!)




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