April 7, 2008

Continued from April 6
. . . The next day was so windy we decided not to do the next castle yet (especially since it is called Buffavento!). So, off we went to Bellapais Abbey. Besides being an historic relic it was made even more famous by being mentioned in a Cypriot book entitled "Bitter Lemons of Cyprus". Bellapais is a lovely village and we walked by the author's house and had fresh squeezed lemonade at a bistro owned and run by a lady who knew him.
After that we headed into Kyrenia to see the castle in the harbour, which they had to kick us out of at closing time. It also housed a museum which contains artifacts from a neolithic village near Vrysi on the coast, and a shipwreck dated around 300bc.
http://www.cyprus44.com/kyrenia/kyrenia-castle.asp
We had an early dinner at the Marina, much to Dale's delight.
To be continued . . .