Tuesday 4th October

Sun setting over the Troodos mountains

Its so nice to wake up in the morning here. The sky is virtually always blue and the air very still and clam with the evening breezes gone. I lie in bed sometimes though wishing I had a chain saw to remove some trees across the road so that I can see the sea from lying down instead of having to stand up and check its sparkling. In the evenings when you sit on the patio you can hear it breaking on the shore.

Another busy day.  LOL.  A trip into Larnaca to pay the internet bill.  This little dongle is quite expensive compared with broadband at home.  There is no sign when we will be able to get the same as it is linked, we are now told, to the authorities and the access road.  The contractor is waiting approval of the sub base for the road so he can then dig it up to lay the fibre optic cables!  So like the UAE in the way things happen, or don't happen.

Larnaca was a lt quieter than a few weeks ago although the lovely sunshine still meant many were sitting on the beach or swimming and playing. However many of the 'sun lounger' vendors had vacancies!  We walked to the small pier at the harbour to look back at the town.  With the majority of the buildings only 3 stories with the maximum of 6, The Avenue of Palms as the main seafront road is called looked nice.  The old castle at the far end bringing a focal point to the end of the bay.

Back home there was garden to tend.  Lillian always finding something to do but there again she also has books to read.  A swim ...... oh the water is cold now and placing the thermometer gave a reading of 76F for the water.  A bike ride to kite beach ....... but no kite surfers for the first time ever.  Has the season finished for them too?  After watching the most beautiful sunset, with the sun dropping behind the Troodos Mountains a walk into the village for a meal at KoKos Restaurant.  It was fairly empty when we arrived but soon lots of 'retired' expat Brits started arriving.  At 2100 there was bingo and a quiz night!  Oh dear.  We left them to it to stroll back home for a drink on the patio.