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Middle East » Cyprus » Famagusta September 9th 2009

Sunday, September, 6th is my birthday and Monday, 7th September, is our fourth wedding anniversary. So sometime in July, we had decided that we would book ourselves a little holiday in Ayia Napa, around this time and get to do some exploring of the other end of the Island. Pat did some surfing and research on the internet and booked us into a hotel called The So Nice Boutique Hotel, Ayia Napa, for the nights of the 6th & 7th September, 2009. The plan was to drive up early on the Sunday morning, stay for the two nights and drive back sometime Tuesday afternoon. Exploring and general sightseeing, while we were there. We were up in good time and I opened my birthday cards and a small present from my sister. The present turned out to ... read more

Road trip en Chypre

Middle East » Cyprus » Famagusta March 30th 2008

Jolie eglise

FeL et Vero

Notre départ de Syrie n'aura finalement pas été à l'image de notre impression du pays. Long, compliqué et vraiment louche, c'est comme ça qu'on pourrait qualifier notre trajet entre Alep et la Turquie. Le chauffeur et ses (trop) nombreux assistants semblaient trammer quelques choses depuis le début, lorsqu'ils se sont mis à charger plusieurs sacs noirs remplis d'on ne savait quoi! Ca commencait bien! Avant d'arriver à la frontière, ils ont caché ces sacs noirs en dessous des bancs des passagers en espérant passer incognito... Ce qui n'a pas fonctionné! Les gardes frontaliers étaient assez sévères et en plus de faire descendre tout les passagers du bus et d'inspecter nos baggages ils ont également fouiller tout l'autobus. Pour en rajouter, ils ont fait dévisser tout les endroits possible et se sont promener à l'intérieur des soutes ... read more

North Cyprus 2006

Middle East » Cyprus » Famagusta April 13th 2006

The Big Inn

Ake Och Emma

A divided city, a Greek city, another Greek city and a ghost town We travelled also before we joined TravelBlog. We have started to digitalise photos from those pre-TravelBlog trips and we are planning to write about some of them. Now the turn has come to a trip Ake made to North Cyprus in 2006. North Cyprus was invaded by Turkey in 1974 and has since then been occupied by Turkey. This situation has left North Cyprus somewhat isolated from the rest of Europe. From what I understand, North Cyprus has for three decades or so had very little contact with any other country than Turkey. Back when I visited North Cyprus the tensions between Cyprus and Northern Cyprus had started to relax a bit and I heard rumours that it was even possible to cross ... read more

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