Very quickly guys because I’m tired…
Routes taken:
Day 1: Nicosia > Limassol > Pissouri > Paphos
Pissouri sucks! Looks a bit like a British base. Shop/beach area is too small and too packed, parking difficult, food at seemingly popular restaurant sucked but prices were normal.
Evening among other places, went to the “Robin Hood” pub with wife and gave a €20 bill to pay for two drinks we just had which totaled 9-10 euros, when this Brit girl turns around and goes… “Are you waiting for your 20c?” and I replied… “No, I’m waiting for an idiot to say something stupid!” … and she started looking around!
Day 2: Paphos > Polis > Pachiamos > Polis > Latchi > Aphrodite’s toilet
The road from Paphos to Peyia is a dump but once you climb up Peyia the views are good. From then on it’s a boring curvy characterless route to Polis. Once you get to Polis you wonder why you ever went there!
When you reach the end of Polis you turn right for areas "unknown"… the stretch from Polis to Pachiamos is quiet, more interesting, underdeveloped, just a couple of restaurants so if you miss them it’s goodbye lunch! Ok, got to St Raphael… err yeah it’s another church! Just prior to that, Pomos region is very pretty… 
wouldn’t mind a holiday house there! 
PS: Arkaga… sucked!
Day 3: Paphos > Stroumbi > Panagia > Crysorogiatissa
A more interesting route, Stroumbi is very clean, green, and pretty! Once you turn towards the mountains there’s a pretty dam on the way and then you get to Makarios’ birthplace in Panayia. His house was all done up for tourists!
Can’t possibly resemble anything from his days, and it was closed with a padlock! Well duh! At the village square there’s hundreds of swallow nests on the buildings probably going back hundreds of generations of swallows… if you go to Panayia forget Makarios it’s the swallow nests you shouldn’t miss! 
Ok, next stop was that weird monastery “Chrysoroyiatissa”… nice cool undercover coffee place… bought some monk-made wine there… and later gave it all to Kafenes! 
Met up with Kafenes at his place on the evening of day 3. Apart from warm hearted Kafenes, met one easy-going go-happy go-lucky wife, a fluffy dog, and the most intelligent cat I’ve ever seen!
Kafenes’ cuisine was nice and spicy, lachmajoun included and washed down with cool dry white… I later had difficulty driving back home!
Day 4: Paphos > Lemba > Paleokastro
Quick look at the ruins… make that rubble… actually make that gravel!
Off to Coral bay, good lunch there, saw Grivas’ boat memorial thingy… interesting photos, etc. Coral bay swimming areas (two sides) are gorgeous
, but a very hot day and fatigue made us head back to base early. Basically, Paphos has become a giant Ayia Napa… everywhere you go tourist joints and z-cars!
In the evening we went to Kafenes’ piano bar… the man is a combination of Liberace and Don Ho!
Great poster of the star in the lobby! I forgot to ask for an autograph… should I have?
Day 5: Paphos > Tseri!
The best trip I’ve ever taken which only lasted just over 1.5 hours at 130-140Km p/h because there’s no place like home…
Regards, GR.
