May 17, 2007 - Paphos, Cyprus

Paphos,Cyprus I arrived at the Venus Beach Hotel at 8:30 pm on Friday night after 24 hours of flying. Bangkok-London-Paphos with a change of airports at London! When I checked in the staff mentioned a local dance group would be performing in the bar at 9:30. So I dumped my bags and went down-my current theory on jet lag is to be really tired! The dancing was fun to watch and in the course of the evening I met Val Mundy from London who was also here on her own and Andreas an 80 year old local character (you can see their portraits in the...

Dec 9, 2006 - Over the green line; coming home

Welcome back - This will be my last entry for this trip. I arrived home last night after a fairly brutal 36 hour marathon from Cyprus, via 7 airports, by taxi, bus, plane, and finally, the Margaret Redmon limo service ("Cheap at half the price.") Since I can't sleep and there's not much else to do at 5am, thought I'd add my final segment. Over the next week I'm determined to add photos to all the entries that don't have visuals to go along with the narrative. The time involved in downloading photos from internet cafes with slow connections...

Jul 10, 2004 - Flogging the Bishop

Trip to Paphos today. Started off with the quintessential travel story: so, we got this flat tire in Limassol. Well, that's about it. We had a flat tire, fortunately we were right across the street from a garage, so we were on our way in 20 minutes. Went along to the ancient city of Kourion with its beautiful theater and wonderful mosaics. Man, those ancient Greeks knew something about real estate, let me tell you. After that we proceeded to Petra tou Romiou, the place where Aphrodite was supposedly born out of the waves (OK, so it's one of...