2003 Cyprus
In January, whilst Bobby was in Thailand and Charlotte in Canada, we took the opportunity of a Winter break in Cyprus. Mostly, we found Southern Cyprus ruined by ugly tourist development, but the Troodos mountains were pleasant and unspoilt. We spent a day across the Green Line, in Turkish Nicosia. This was much poorer. but more interesting:
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Coastal view |
Rosemary on a nature trail |
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Forbidding sky |
Mud bricks |
Mosque in the Greek part of Cyprus |
Epiphany wedding photo in Nicosia |
Nicosia - the Green Line dividing Greek and Turkish areas is at the end. |
Cat foraging in the Turkish sector of Nicosia |
Another walled off street in Nicosia |
Ruined church in the Turkish sector |
Turkish "han" (inn), Nicosia, beautifully restored. Here we met a Turkish schoolteacher who had trained at Winchester in the '50s |
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This mosque was once a cathedral. |
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View from the balcony at Tochni. Tochni was where a massacre of Turkish men and boys took place in 1974. I might have been less keen to go there if we had known that. |
Orthodox church, Tochni |
Pillaged mosque, Tochni. |
Rosemary at our B&B in Tochni |
Our B&B in Tochni
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The coast near Paphos - one of the few bits not ruined by tourist development
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In the Troodos mountains
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In the Troodos mountains
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In the Troodos mountains |