Just After an hour drive from Limassol I reached the UNESCO World Heritage city of Paphos. The city was much more quiet than the other Cyprian cities I had visited, probably because it was as far West as possible, far away from the capital and the charter flight destinations. From early morning I started exploring...Read More
In 1974 Cyprus was attacked by the Turkish, and hundreds of thousands were forced to move from their homes. This has still left a lot of houses empty until the day, like one of the districts of Famagusta which has been sealed off and left completely empty, like a ghost town. Churches, beach hotels, restaurants...Read More
My honesty of telling the immigration officers at Tel Aviv Airport about my travel plans to visit Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine resulted in a fifteen minute questioning in front of the immigration queue, before the officer sent me to have another thirty minute questioning at her supervisors office. The fact that I had a beard,...Read More