Thursday, April 25th, Paphos, Cyprus

Greetings!

After breakfast, we drove for about an hour from Limassol to our next two-night stay in Paphos.  We're still tackling our use of Pat's IPhone and my Google Pixel for directions, but we had the advantage of having driven part of the route yesterday on our way to Kourion.  Still, getting from our hotel to the main country circular highway through one-way streets was challenging.  Sure felt good to get to the open road between the two cities.  After checking into the Princess Vera Apartments on the Tombs of the Kings Row, we hiked from there, around the large coastal point to the Pathos Harbor.  

On our 3.3 km walk, we passed a family building a sandcastle near the tidepools (took a photo for Hollis Bewley (Director of the Stewards Tidepool Program) before finishing at the Pathos Castle.  It was a fortress built and rebuilt by the Byzantines, Franks, Venetians, Lusignans, Ottomans, and the British.as a result of invasions and earthquakes from 1080 to 1974.  

Lunching on forest and tropical smoothies at the harbor, we hailed a cab at 2pm back to the hotel.  We'll go out later for dinner at one of the neighborhood restaurants.

Before we went to dinner, we drove a few miles north to the Tomb of the Kings.  It was a great decision, and we almost let our exhaustion from the morning walk cause us to pass on it.  So glad we went.  These are burial grounds carved out of solid rock, between the 4th century BC and the 3rd century AD.  

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