Lisa's Travel Adventure 2010

7. Lisa moved onto Broome inWestern Australia to spend Christmas with Ben, she told me that on Christmas day the temps hit 44 degrees.

From Broome, Lisa flew to Sydney to spend New Year with friends.


One of her highlights of the visit to Broome was a helicopter trip over the coast.


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To Blow away the cobwebs of the recent festivities we decided on a walk from Limassol Old Port to the Marina, a walk of some 17Km.

The path along the coast is very good but with recent storms there was quite a bit of damage, so at times it was a bit of a scramble along the sea front. There was quite a swell kicking up from the sea which made for some interesting maneuvers by the team.

Christmas Day 2010

Christmas Day








After a couple of drinks down at the Pissourianna  we returned home for a traditional Christmas dinner that was served by two of santa's helpers.

In the evening we were joined by Jan & Alun, who lost their Mr & Mrs crown to Steve and Mary.

We would like to wish all our Family, friends and visitors to this blog, a Very Merry Christmas and an enjoyable day, wherever you may be...Cheers

Mary's Birthday 2010

To celebrate Mary's birthday we went over to Mandria beach for a walk along the beach in a pleasant 24 degrees, we then made our way over to Timi beach for a pre dinner drink and met a character with a rifle called "Rambo"

We then headed over to Costas Taverna in Geriskipou for an excellent lunch and on the way home we bumped into Santa.

In the evening we settled down with Irish coffees and birthday cake (sorry the candles were the wrong way round Mary) and watched the premier of Scuba Steve....more about that later.

On a beautiful, crisp morning we set out from Paramali beach on a hike to Curium.

We made our way around the British Garrison at Episkopi until we reached a lookout point at the edge of the base which has some great views of the coastline.









We carried on past the archaeological site  at Curium and ended on hike on the beach below.


In the evening Josie and Derek were kind enough to invite us to their home for a Christmas  drink and Georgia amazed us with her magical card tricks, although baby Amelia was happy enough with her beans !

Mandy held a pre Christmas  party (with Nibbles )with the Brummies and two little girls had hours of fun in a Box.

Aphrodite Rentals Christmas Party.

  

Lisa's Travel Adventure 2010


  6. Lisa flew from the West Indies to Australia via Miami and Los Angeles. Her first port of call "Down under" was Brisbane, after just over a week on the (damp) Sunshine coast she flew across the country to Port Hedland in  Western Australia.










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A Hike to Avakas Gorge

 On a blustery day Rob and Steve  teamed up to hike from Chlorakas to the Avakas Gorge a walk estimated at 25K. After the recent storms that have hit Cyprus we noted quite a bit of damage along the coastline.  

  

We were lucky enough to see a tornado forming and watch it drop down to churn up the sea.

We carried on past The Sea Caves are which gave us some great views of the dramatic coastline.

After 7 hours of hiking over a variety of terrain and in fading light we reached the edge of the Akamas Nature reserve.

 

PRA Christmas Dinner

On a blustery night with an electrical storm overhead, the Pissouri residents association held their Christmas party at the Hillview restaurant.

A traditional dinner was served up and then the crowd were entertained by the vocal talents of Kaela Santosh . 
There was also a suprise  appearance by Denzil and Charlie (Tranmere.)

Storms Hit Cyprus

Cyprus is hit by storms this weekend, high winds, a 16 hour electrical storm and several cuts to the power supply causes the postponement of the PRA carols in the Square.

 

To clear the cobwebs we took a trip down to Aphrodite's rock to watch the waves crash in.

   

 YouTube Video of waves

On an unusually warm December's day, two member of the P.R.AT.S 's team hiked from Geriskipou beach up to the Chlorakas area just North of Paphos.