Wednesday back in Coral Bay ...

Well dear readers of Wear and Dao,  since the sun's still shining and the buses so frequent why not head out to Coral Bay again?

Yesterday saw Portugal thrash Switzerland in the World Cup and with Spain eliminated by Morocco unexpectedly on penalties it just leaves England's game with France to see us through to the semi-finals. .. if we beat them! Portugal and Brasil are clear favourites though who knows, England could win their first World Cup since 1966!

Meanwhile, back to today  ...and Coral Bay, clearly it's not the  only sandy beach in Cyprus but it's certainly the best for us in Paphos. Maria who works the little cafe at one end of the bay has been friendly and accomodating allowing your old blogger and partner to make use of the tables and chairs when not on the beach a bonus that i doubt we could be afforded in the height of the summer season. Back in Great Britain there are many sandy beaches, including Druridge Bay in Northumberland and Studland Bay in Dorset. Both wonderful for sunbathing and swimming when it's warm and sunny e.g. Spring, Summer and Autumn but not really Winter! Hence the winter holiday in Paphos ... a decision we havn,t regretted for a moment.

Now, dear readers, we're sitting in an Indian restaurant eating vegetable korma and tuna sushi respectively  ... delicious and nutritious as usual ...

Tomorrow, who knows?  We still have two days before flying back to Stanhope via Manchester!

Tuesday, Coral Bay yet again! https://wdportugal.blogspot.com/2022/12/tuesday-coral-bay-yet-again.html

Tuesday, Coral Bay yet again!

Yes, dear readers of Wear and Dao  ... Coral Bay yet again and why not?!

When the bus stops right outside the Athena Beach Hotel for the Harbour bus station then the bus to Coral Bay in the sunshine it would be shame to waste the last few days of the holiday especially since the weather in Stanhope is forecast rather chilly to say the least!

A swim in the sea followed by a walk up to eat fish soup and grilled salmon means a perfect Thai lunch ...

As for tomorrow. .. well, who knows what Wednesday will bring? Sunshine and warm temperatures for sure!

Monday in Coral Bay again ...

So dear readers of Wear and Dao, the last Monday of this Cyprus holiday and since the hired car was returned yesterday it's the bus from outside the hotel to the Harbour bus station and then onwards to Coral Bay for more sunbathing and swimming in warm sea. Yesterday England beat Senegal 3-0 to progress to play France on Saturday ... interestingly that may cause some rivalry between your old blogger and his younger sister who now lives in France with her French husband and family.

From the seaside it's a short walk to a restaurant where we had vegetable soup and sea bass and spaghetti carbonara respectively. The Bulgarian waiter explained that many non-Cypriots work here, since the locals are not keen on working! Of course it's the same story all over the place ... in Weardale we've heard the same story 're the Poles ... anyway it's good for folks to mingle ... when you're old blogger was younger he worked in Athens for a while perhaps one of the few times your old blogger worked in a foreign country and like the waiters here worked harder than the management .

Tomorrow who knows where we're going on the bus ... maybe Limmasol again ... let's see!

Sunday Sun again

Well dear readers of Wear and Dao, it's Sunday again and the sun is shining in Cyprus as usual. and it's the last day with the hired car and last week of the winter holiday in Paphos...it's a shame but the 3 week winter break has been great and of course we're looking forward to seeing friends and family again ... though  not necessarily the the freezing weather!

The winter holiday has indeed been wonderful ... can you believe it's not peak season in Cyprus?? Actually that's in the summer holidays when Cyprus is roasting and England, even in the North can be pleasantly warm ...

Tonight dear readers it's  England v Senegal and if England survive tonight and go forward to the final ... well we'll be watching in Stanhope in Weardale, while the England will be playing in Dohar, Qatar!

Meanwhile in Cyprus after a delicious and nutritious breakfast in the hotel we set off along the coast in the car and stopped off for a swim in the sea, then drove further along the coast for quick walk then lunch of fish soup and seafood platter ... that's where we are now dear readers. . a few more days in the sun and bus rides about the place, then home to England.

Saturday Sauntering in the car

Today dear readers of Wear and Dao, we ventured out in the car hired for four days. Yesterday we headed for the Troodos Mountains and explored there. We found a big monastery where Archbishop Makarios was interred and after looking around monastery museum found a restaurant serving good food for lunch ... vegetable soup for starters followed by spaghetti Neapolitan for her and octopus in red wine sauce for your old blogger. Then we went in search of Troodos itself which took a while, and found it in the dark so we saw little of it! On the way home to Paphos we got rather lost and were running low on fuel ... worrying somewhat since the fuel stations we found were automatic i.e. no staff and it took quite a while to find someone to explain the system in English ... third try and bingo! the car was fuelled ...

Anyway back to today Saturday 2nd December ...so we ventured out after breakfast in the Athena Beach Hotel and headed north up the coast towards Polis then on further along the coast on another warm sunny day, finding a beautifully located restaurant for soup made with goat's milk, bulghar wheat, tomato and grated courgette. .. delicious! Then we drove north a
some more and found another beautifully located restaurant overlooking a harbour for more lovely food. Now we're sitting in the sun, digesting our food and looking at the view before heading home to Paphos. ..

Today dear readers of Wear and Dao, on the first day of December 2022, we set out in a hired car for Nicosia in a hired car since the bus driver demanded masks for passengers as well as wearing one himself ... funnily enough that's the first time it happened in Cyprus including yesterday's trips to Polis and back ... anyway our car hired for fo four days took us to Nicosia no problem and we crossed the border with our British passports, though on the Turkish side the young Turkish Cypriot can't cross to the Greek side without travelling to Turkey where he was born! Well dear readers, this is the crazy world in which we live ... Tomorrow let's see where else we can go ...