Monday 4th June 2012

Always on the look out for colourful stones

Blue skies nothing but blue skies - for most of the day!  Worryingly there a few white clouds about early morning although they soon disappeared giving a hot day where the temperatures rose to at least 30C.  A day for ‘sizzling’.

Lillian and I decided against the Monday Bowls session as we were later waking, opting for a long walk along the beach to Faros, then the cliff tops overlooking the sea and beach, down the steps and back along the beach to home.  A total of about two hours walking.    

The Faros beach was busy and car parking areas had many cars, all with Cypriot number plates, only seeing two rental cars.  For one of the few totally sandy beaches in the area Faros is a well kept secret from tourist who are inclined to be in the obvious spots of Larnaca and McKenzie.  Indeed we only stumbled on Pervolia by chance when making our original exploratory visit to Cyprus in 2007.  

Faros Beach

The beach was so busy as today was a Public Holiday - Holy Spirit Day which takes place 50 days after Orthodox Ester.  Families were out in force with many children playing in the shallow water. In Larnaca the sea front promenade has taken on the appearance of an open-air fair with scores of stalls selling toys and traditional food.

As the day of lazing in the garden and swimming in the pool was coming to an end.  (more careful with the sunscreen today) we received unexpected visitors in Sheila and Bob (Super Bob) who were out walking and they joined us for 45 minutes to have a beer and a chat.  Sheila and Bob live in an apartment on the northern side of Pervolia.  Bob reported a huge turn out at Bowls in the morning with 42 players.  We were not missed.

An evening drive into the setting sun to Zygi where the three of us indulged with a fish meze.  Despite there being three of us we ordered for two and still couldn’t finish all that was brought to the table.  The cuttle fish was particularly good.  Home to flick the television  channels but we soon decided enough.  Another exhausting day LOL.