A Cyprus miscellany

[snaarman]

Well, we are back from our short break in Cyprus, and I have some holiday snaps to prove it. Clearly, you can't expect much if you go in February, and as you see, the weather was a bit iffy:



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(Both of these at Agios Georgios bay, west edge of Cyprus. A sweet little harbour overlooked by a very fine Fish retaurant and a church. Not much else there.)

So you can imagine after a day schlepping around in the rain we were glad to get back to the digs at night:



Here's a couple on the shore trying to make the best of a bad job:



OK, enough of these predictable pictures. Let's go in search of the weird stuff:

What about this great old bus then? You see so many old Bedfords, I'm tempted to name the place Bedfordshire. This one is spending its final days on an uncompleted development in a field.



Oooh, lovely and rusty on the outside. Even better inside:



The place is full of characters as well. Here's the Priest in Polis:



And one of the waiters, off duty:



Another Polis village oddity: This dead Standard Vanguard occupies a parking space in the village square. It's been there, unmoved for at least 5 years to my knowledge. Perhaps it will outlast civilisation as we know it..



Another nice little detail:





There you go!

Pete

[stevednp3]

Re: A Cyprus miscellany

Lovely photos, the resting waiter is my fav, well captured. I love Cyprus, I spent 2 weeks there last year and took a trip upto the top of the troodos mountains, which is very strange to have snow on top, where people go skiing,then drive down to the bottom of the mountains and you can then sun bath

[CaptainD]

Re: A Cyprus miscellany

Pete,

Really nice to see your pictures, good to see you back on the forum.

Cheers

Chris

[Zuiko]

Re: A Cyprus miscellany

Hmmm, flaunting all that warm sunshine, clear skies and great subjects - I almost wish I hadn't prompted him to post. I'm sure he would have done it eventually anyway, he's like that.

Love the old Bedford, particularly the front passenger seat.

Also love the Standard Vanguard, for sentimental reasons. My Dad's first car in the early '60s was a beetleback Vanguard and I thought it was wonderful that we actually had our own family car - for previous holidays he had always hired one for the week and at home we went everywhere by foot or bus.

Thanks for posting, Pete, and glad you had a good holiday.

[Cathrine Stephansen]

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Lovely! The waiter is my favourite too. Nicely shot.

[snaarman]

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A handful more from the hols: We visited the east end of the island, a huge drive to get to Ayia Napa (duh, a dump of course, but a much bigger dump than I expected). Anyway we took the opportunity to see the dark side of Cyprus.

Here is the ghost town of Famagusta. Just Google Varosha or Famagusta. If you could get in there, just think of the photo opportunities. Deserted since 1974...

This was the closest we could get, about 2Km away. UN troops and no photo zones between us and the former mediterranean resort. All these hotels are war scarred wrecks. What a stupid waste...




There are scars of deserted turkish houses all over the south.



Lighter note. We visited a "Museum Folkloric" (sic) while at the east end of the island. As usual the gate was open but there was no one there... Still, I spotted these great pots:



Finally:

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This can't be right, surely:



What does it remind you of? Olympus Marketing Department?

:-)

Pete