Return to Cyprus after 40 years
I'm just back from a glorious week in beautiful Cyprus. I lived there when I was a baby - my Dad was posted there from 1967-1970. My first memories are of Cyprus. My beloved Dad passed away three years ago, so we took my Mum with us. She was amazed at how much Cyprus has changed in the 40 years since we lived there.
We found the bungalow where we first lived in Limassol:
This is Mum standing outside. The B&W photo above is of Dad and me taken in 1969 outside the same bungalow.
Here are some of the places we re-visited:
This is mum and me at the top of Troodos mountain:
This is the beautiful Aphrodite's Rock:
This is the amazing ampitheatre at Curium, near Episkopi:
This is just one of the many beautiful mozaics at Curium:
This is Mum and me at the Tombs of the Kings at Paphos:
The Tombs of the Kings was a fascinating place to visit (please Google it to find out more!). But it was 39 degrees and we almost melted in the heat!
On the days when we weren't exploring the island, we relaxed at our villa, just outside Paphos. This is the view from our balcony:
I took 320 photos in Cyprus, but that would make for an extremely long blog, so have just included a few to give you a flavour of our lovely week in Cyprus.
Thanks for taking the time to read - hope you enjoyed it!
Ali :-)
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Cyprus is a place we have not visited yet but looking at your's and other blogs of the place we sure need to put it on our list.
all the best
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Cesar and Dave
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Thank you - I highly recommend Cyprus. But if you don't like the heat, avoid August - it was soooooooooooo hot!!
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Enjoyed your blog. I love Cyprus, even though weve been there about 6 times I always visit the Tombs of the Kings, its a fascinating place and always seems to be more to see.
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LOvely blog, I have been to all the places in the pics and it certainly brings back fond memories. Our children were small and we had a wonderful time there on both occasions. We stayed in Fig Tree Bay which was very pretty the other time we stayed in Protarus which was quaint, then.
I have a recollection of my son playing musical chairs with an older lady and he pulled the chair from under her when there were only one chair left. He was only five at the time but it was so funny. I wince when I think about it. His prize was a bottle of the local brandy, fine for taking paint off doors......
Fine blog thanks for taking me back to Cyprus.
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Great blog Love the photos. I love cyprus and would like to live there but my better half wont take the plunge !!!! so im looking for a holiday home for now .
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some very nice pics,and good narraton
nice one
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Thanks for all the lovely comments, much appreciated.
Ali
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Hi Ali
Well well well, here you are again!!! What a smashing photoblog. Steph and I have been to Cyprus 8 times!! Limassol once and seven to Paphos. We went back to see how much it had changed since I was stationed there in 1967-8. Believe it or not, we used to go skiing up Mt Troodos when it snowed, all dressed in Army gear playing at soldiers!! hehe.
The last time we went though, we were a little disappointed as to how much it had changed in the 4 years we had not been there. Still a nice place though. Friendly people and lots of places to go.
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Ali, really enjoyed your blog - have never been to Cyprus and will now add it to my (very long!) list. Enjoyed your pictures - the columns is my favourite. Celia
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Hi Ali,
I too love Cyprus , and in particular the Paphos area. Your blog shows it off nicely (wish it had been longer)
Well Done.
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Never been to Cyprus, looks like we are missing a lot. will put it on the places to go. Thanks for posting. ( would have loved to have seen a few more photo,s, pleaseee)
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Lovely photoblog Ali with wonderful photography, presentation and narrative. My husband and myself visited Paphos last month and you maybe interested in my 'Passport to Passport' photoblog. We went to the Tomb of the Kings and I would have loved to have descended and climbed the steps to have got that photo you got but I couldn't risk it being as I'd been on crutches for 4 months prior to the holiday and was hobbling around the archaeological site on a walking stick. Not an easy site to explore for the less mobile.Hubby took a similar shot like yours to show me and I took some from the open top looking down on the columns....Thanks for compiling and sharing.
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An all round good blog. This is what blogs are all about. Just enough information, lovely pictures and a story, an interesting story. I really enjoyed your blog Ali, for just those few minutes I'd been to Cyprus.
Thanks,
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Lovely colourful blog Ali!!
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How wonderful that was, love the photo with you and your Dad, and the one now with your Mum - must have been quite a difficult time for you both so good that you were together. Great blog Ali. x
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What an excellent blog Ali, i have never been to Cyprus but your blog makes me want to go. That picture of you with your dad is sooo cute! It must have been lovely to go with your mum and im sure it brought back so many memories for you both. Thanks for sharing with us xx
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What a lovely little blog. Nice photos, narrative and a nice pair of pins might I add.
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A lovely blog Ali. I do like that black and white photo of you and your dad, bet you treasure it; it's full of love. Cyprus is somewhere I've always wanted to go. Don't envy you that heat though, phew indeed!! Thanks for sharing, but if you have lots more photos then please consider sharing more in another blog, so at least if I can't go I can see from the comfort of my own home!!
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Went to Cyprus last year in August, it was boiling. Went to top of Troodos a couple of times just to escape the heat. Great time exploring the archaeological sites. You've brought back the memories of a wonderful place, and I may have to return next year.
Mike
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Great blog and very nice photos.
I stayed in Limosso on my only holiday to Cyprus. It is worth a visit. I was facinated by the archeological sites. We went in February and drove into the Troodos mountains and found a skiing competition which considering we had left the coast in shirt sleeves was a surprise, and a cold one.
I did not realise the size of the banana plantations in Cyprus.
A really remarkable place.
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Great work Ali, nice to see parts of the world I've never visited, looks a very interesting place, hope you enjoyed it despite the heat!!
Thanks
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As Ian above says with these blogs you can visit around the world and go to diverse events that are not held locally.
Well done and thanks.
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loved your blog, my son in law is based out there at the moment so I have been three times in the last year, it is so lovely I got my daughter to take me to Curium she wasn't impressed but I was it was so hot up there though, been to the Tombs of the Kings and the Troodos mountains many years ago with my husband, we visited Cyprus a couple of times and he loved diving there he would have been made up that Vicki and family are there, you must have enjoyed living there as a child I know charlie and Billy are loving it thanks again for bringing back memories
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just came across this is is super - been to a lot of the places
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