I am backtracking a little here as the the last stages of the blog yesterday were written under extreme tiredness. As I was writing as my eyes were closing and I didn't go into as much detail as I may have liked. Sunday After we arrived at the hotel by taxi, we went into reception snd our booking was found easily enough. Our room is on the Penthouse floor, although I wouldn't set your imagination of luxury running to high. The place is ok, but a little tired and far from new. At best 2 star, but more than adequate for our needs for a couple of days. We are paying more at AU$ 310 for two nights bed and breakfast, which is more than we did at the Ramada Plaza in Bangkok. We settled in ... read more

Friday Awake and drinking coffee before 9 o,clock this morning. Opened the curtains to a brighter day, almost blue sky. Hearing and reading news that it's rained heavily back at home in Paphos. Plan for today, heading out for more exploring and visit a different Mall. More mundane tasks at first, we arranged for some laundry to be collected and sorted out by the hotel. Haven't seen anything in the local vicinity laundrywise and when you are away for three months you can only bring so much stuff. As per our usual morning routine we got a take away coffee from the hotel lobby and booked the 1030 river boat at the concierge. Pat had done her usual research and we were heading for the Centralworld Mall allegedly the largest in Asia. This entailed a train ... read more

We finally woke at 10.30 and started getting ready to go out. After showering and so on, we went down to the lobby area of the hotel for a look around. Our plan was to get the boat up the river and do some exploring. We bought some take away coffees from the hotel and made our way down to the hotel river boat. After reading the information we went back up to the concierge desk and got tickets. The boat left at 12.30 and went to the Saphan Taksin central pier where we purchased tickets for the blue flag Chao Prayo Tourist boat at TB150 each for an all day pass. There are nine stops and we rode to the end which took about half an hour ish and at one stage it threw it ... read more

The journey has begun. A willing volunteer picked us up from home this morning and dropped us off at the Paphos bus station for the first part of our journey, which was a bus to Limassol. The bus cost €4 each and left on time, we had chance to both enjoy the scenery of the journey as neither of us was driving. We got off the bus in Limassol to change to the Airport express bus. Here we had a snack and passed some time until the bus left at 3 o'clock more or less on time. This one cost €9 each and again was about an hours journey being dropped off at the airport. The check in desks were not open when we arrived so we had tea, coffee and a chocolate muffin to pass ... read more

Wednesday 6th July 2011 Awake at our usual time and down for breakfast and back to the room and our last packing for a while. Down to reception about 11 o'clock and pay our bill for the four nights. It was €70 per night including a good breakfast which, for a half decent hotel in the centre of a capital city, we thought was a very good price. Then made our way to the Metro station and purchased our one way airport ticket. The fare is €8 for a single and for some reason €14 for a couple. One change on the Metro which we are getting to know well and then a train all the way out to the airport. The only thing is the Metro doesn't link directly into the airport, you come out ... read more