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The small two room apartment is fine. A bit worn maybe, but OK. Bedroom, bathroom and a living room with a small kitchen. There's an air cooler in the bedroom and having read the manual I manage to get it to cool instead of heating. The kitchen has what you need for simple cooking. You can drink the tap water, but the taste is so-so. We'll need some bottled water instead...

Cyprus 2002 - part II.

Eric
2005-12-02 17:43:16

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The small two room apartment is fine. A bit worn maybe, but OK. Bedroom, bathroom and a living room with a small kitchen. There's an air cooler in the bedroom and having read the manual I manage to get it to cool instead of heating. The kitchen has what you need for simple cooking. You can drink the tap water, but the taste is so-so. We'll need some bottled water instead...

From the living room and bedroom are glass doors to a small balcony with two plastic chairs and a small table. Here you can enjoy the morning sun and the limited sea view, for which we paid extra. We could have slept better though; during night the traffic was rather noisy and the mattresses pretty hard.

At 10-11 there's an info meeting at the hotel bar - we had better join. Startour's Swedish guide supplies the information, it could probably have been done in half the time, but OK. Yesterday in the bus the same guide told us about the handicapped sewers that will block instantly if you drop paper into the toilet as we're used to. No, the paper must be deposited in a bucket next to the toilet. The don't tell that in the coloured brochures.

At 11 we're released and head for the promenade, which we haven't seen in daylight.
Larnaca's beach promenade

Here hotels, restaurants and bars lie side by side with sections of pavement covered with parasols bordered by a row of palm trees. The beach and the sea are a bit further out. We stroll along the promenade, pass the old fort and criss-cross into the old town. Here the street names are Turkish-like, and the general impression isn't that of wealth, but here and there it is quite pretty with gardens on roofs and in courtyards.

Supposedly built at Lazarus' grave.
Lazarus was the guy whom Jesus brought back to the land of the living. Myth has it that he was later driven from The Holy Land. In a small boat ...