The rest began...
first, for the first time in my life, my daughter and I lost each other in the subway... How you found each other ("beloved" MTS as always there was no communication underground...), missed the last need Aeroexpress as checked online with the help of my good friends from absolutely left the Agency, unrelated to this trip - is generally a song...
Then, when it was checked Luggage, shared with each other, as it turned out, both occurred we thought: maybe you shouldn't fly? After all, how many had read and watched stories where someone was late for the flight, it was impossible to catch, and the plane then crashed, and the man was the only survivor, because you were late.... If I were more superstitious I guess, just would not fly...
second, landed in Larnaca we are "fun"....
Cyprus is beautiful from the air - amazing! As I landed/took off in different places - beautiful only in the Dominican Republic it was! Photos, unfortunately, turned out blurry... In reality, look much cooler....
So, about the landing... the Cries of "wow" in the plane was replaced by a question "are we on the water sit?" for sea ataccama was approaching rapidly, but the land was far.... It turned out, the airport is on the shore just)) seemed the strip of land, the earth is getting closer... almost got that chassis will touch the ground... Someone is impatient, even began to clap... And suddenly the plane shoots up and sharply gains altitude and makes a big reversal.... The repetition of beautiful images of Cyprus from a bird's flight... the Audience is in disbelief... Sat next to the cheerful company, commented: "Dear tourists - especially for you sightseeing tour of Cyprus from Biblio-the Globe". Correct - "not from Biblio-the Globe... a bonus from Transaero"... (Oh, not joking.... with the start of the trip and the fact that this was a first for me - always landed without problems and the first time...) During the second try of landing the people from the yacht were waving their hands to us already as an old acquaintance))) this time the landing went well, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. And someone from the side so happily commented: "This is che, here we are once four times to land tried, the chassis wouldn't come out..." Optimistic, after all we are tourists - no panic, solid jokes)))
The first time we came out of the plane of the first - sat on the last row, and the ladder was applied to the tail out... the Feeling is cool, like out of the personal plane))) To the airport building drove the bus, although the airport itself is small and... airport Worker opened the door for us, and vanished somewhere... the Crowd of happy tourists bursts into the hall... and freezes in a stupor... Inscriptions in Greek and English, where to go next - is unclear... none of the airport staff at all. And, it seems, all those who are in the forefront was, as we in Cyprus for the first time) Daughter asked to go to the right, guessing....
The third fly in the ointment (the first day of vacations) was the fact that Transaero during transport somehow broke my retractable handle of the suitcase... And all the 12 kg I was dragging handles.... instead of carry on wheels...((( In horror trying to imagine HOW I will bring it back - already with bottles of wine and olive oil....
In General, a Shuttle Biblioglobus I got to understand in what mood.... However, Cyprus, which we saw on the way from Larnaca airport to Limassol, was so beautiful that all the trouble so quickly forgotten.... They have a track - like flowering gardens.... I just opened his mouth - a real "wow"... the Mass of well-tended flowering shrubs and small trees throughout the whole track... the Grass is yellow, dry, Yes.... even now - when only may... And the background of this grass on the hills look especially striking dark-green spots of shrubs.... Forests as such in Cyprus is almost gone - only in the Troodos mountains....
(I'll tell you: the road from Paphos airport to Paphos - we flew - much more picturesque... There is added another interesting landscape... And the view at Petra tou Romiou - directly from the highway, with a small mountain on which it is...)
Passed some picturesque villages... How beautiful Cyprus temples!!! Interesting architecture, with red domes of tiles (almost all) - they perfectly fit into the style of the surrounding houses.... Unfortunately, the bus was traveling with such speed that the pictures had to do useless.... A primary concern for tourists in the first day of the trip? Right, the question is: "I wonder what room we inhabit?" As if not wrote then in the reviews, such as "we came to the sea, and not in the room to sit" - but tell me, who will delight if settled in a room overlooking the wall of a neighbouring property, or construction view? Or, although paid for "sea view", but not the fact that this view is not on the track under the window which is in front of the sea or the pool with screaming early in the morning children and at night - they are "coming off" POPs at the pool bar? PAH-PAH, that's what, but with the numbers I've always been lucky.... Here and this time settled on the 5th floor, the last of the Elevator room... Minus only that this is the last floor - the room from the roof was very hot....
This with us when booking was called "inland view"... Normalnenko this view - we liked it))) especially that side view from the balcony was of the sea...
Here's our hotel - quite a cute))
Although, after reading some of the reviews after booking I was a little scared to go there... But then, after strolling through Limassol, I realized that even many 4* hotels seem (on the surface) much less interesting, if not worse.... Then we had 3 days of acclimatization and "recovered")) Walked around and watched... and wondered... is That still a surprise?
1) a Huge number of "runners" in the city - the narrow path along the beach on which we walked, was their "stadium")) in Any country I'm such a "mass race" is not seen...
2) Bikes and dedicated bike lanes... Well, at least along the long street on 28 October and its sequel, the road that goes from the Old port and the Old town to the ruins of the ancient city of Amathus at the end of the tourist zone.
In many hotels you can rent bikes at the property for EUR 10 per day. In addition, different areas have bike racks. Rather, there are about 10 bikes that can be rented for 2 euros per hour, paid through a special machine with a credit card. If the daughter is properly translated with the English to keep the bike then any other bike, not necessarily the side that you took... 3) Very little smokers, mostly not local... my Smart girl figured a possible cause is cigarettes in Cyprus is very expensive... Something around 150 rubles per pack, if you convert from euros. 4) Deserted beaches. Well, generally around Limassol - even some 5* hotels... for some reason I still don't understand... Well, may another sort of not quite the season... But because it's hot, the sea is warm a long time... but where are the people? I like it - I don't like crowds... But strange...
We have to be sexkorea. (passed only two....) and hi especially loved Paphos....