Easter in Pissouri

Easter came to Pissouri with it usual mix of Fireworks, the smell of Souvla wafting over the village, traditional dancing and all other manner of high jinx.

Plenty of Water and Football

Cyprus's largest dam, Kouris, is now reported to be full and with careful use this should give the Island plenty of water for the coming months.

We popped over to the Olympus Palace restaurant to watch Local team APOEL Nicosia play their biggest match in their history by taking on the mighty Real Madrid.

Despite a  plucky performance the Cypriot side went down by 3 goals to nil.  Following a 5-2 defeat in Spain, APOEL left the tournament  after a tremendous run.

Grand Slam and St Patrick's Night

Congratulations to the Welsh rugby team for winning the 2012 Grand Slam in Cardiff by defeating France by 16-9.

We celebrated by going to  St Patrick's night party at the Pine bay club and sinking a few glasses of Guinness and having a flutter on the snail racing.

Larnaca and The Return from Thailand

This weekend we drove over to Larnaca for the weekend, on a beautiful Spring day we walked along the prom and took in the sights of town as the  seasonal visitors began to arrive.

Our base for our stay was the Livadhiotis City Hotel which is situated next to the the famous St Lazarus church.

On Sunday afternoon we picked up Mary and Steve who returned from an 18 day visit of touring Thailand. On the journey home we were regaled with stories of Elephant riding, walking the rain forest, Monkey watching, river trips around Bangkok and Much much more...Welcome Home

Steve did several dives and took some superb underwater photographs.

More dive photographs here

Damo and Sue's Leaving Party

After spending several years living in Pissouri, our Neighbours, Sue and Damien are returning to the UK. To say farewell to their friends they held a bash at the 1911 club.

Pissouri's Latest home grown DJ Tracey opens at The Red Fever Pub.

Birthday Boys

On St David's day we popped down the 1911 club to help our old mates "Spud"  (50th) and Dave celebrate their Birthdays. Mandy baked  a cake and a large number of friends turned out and Paul cooked some smashing food.

On Saturday it was John's 65th birthday and his wife Lynn organised a surprise party thatwas held for him at the Pissouriana hotel. A large crowd were entertained by a Jazz band and a superb buffet was served.

Snow in Pissouri and New Residents

February finished  a poor month of weather with a day of Snow, Sleet and very high winds here in Pissouri.

Colin and Deb flew in from Birmingham(on a rough flight over) to start their new life in Cyprus, Sorry about the weather.

Thailand and a Sporting weekend

This week saw Mary and Steve jet off to Thailand for a well deserved holiday, they flew from Larnaca to Bankok via Abu Dhabi...more stories on this to come...I'm sure !

Then the Sporting weekend began, first up Wales travelled to Fortress Twickenham to take on England, in an exciting encounter Wales came away victorious by 19 points to 12 and by doing so won the Triple crown.

I personally enjoyed the Eddie Butler/Brian Moore commentating "neutrality" in the box. Absolute classic - Wales go 12-6 down and Moore crows/gleefully comments as Swing Low reverberates around Twickenham ......"Let's see what this Welsh side have got now then?"..............

Umm.............. that'll be 13 unanswered points and a triple crown in the away dressing room then Brian....Priceless.

On Sunday we popped down to our local pub to watch our old team Cardiff City take on Liverpool in the Carling cup final at Wembley. The Bluebirds put in a great display and  scored an equaliser with two minutes of extra time left to play that felt like a winner, but it was not to be our day as Liverpool won the penalty shoot out.

Rob's Birthday

Yet another birthday rolls around, the day started with bacon sandwiches with Mandy, Mary and 4D. We then trooped down to Pissouri bay for some bracing fresh air and Jan and Alun joined us for coffee and  Mandy's home made cake before returning to the village for a few birthday drinks at the 1911 club.

A BIG thank you to everyone who who took the time to send  me cards, gifts and messages.

Football in Limassol

Some of the lads from Pissouri made their way to the a Limassol football stadium to watch AEL take on APOEL of Nicosia. The Cypriot fans were loud, colourful and passionate, sadly the 2 teams on the field did'ent show as much passion as they play out a fairly drab 0-0 draw.

One of the party nearly wet himself when he found a fellow Aston Villa fan in the crowd, you meet all sorts on this beautiful Island.

Return to the 60's

On a beautiful February day the weekend got off to a quiet start when Rob and 4D took a hike along the coast of Melanda.

On the way down to Melanda  we popped over to see the construction work that was being carried out on the land slip area of the village.

Things livened up in the evening when we popped over to the Hillview restaurant where a Skool disco had been organised.

There were some great outfits on show and those crazy kids of Pissouri danced the night away to some groovy tunes. (more photo's here)
and to end the evening we had our very own "Billie Jean"