Farewell winter! I’m heading to the sun!

On Friday we finally moved to Cyprus. After almost twelve-hour travel getting out of the plane in Larnaca was really kind of ecstasy. The special smell of the air bringing the thought of the sea with its a bit rotten-like notes mixed with the sweet smell (odoeur??) of flowers fully blooming here already was absolutely great! In that moment the whole stress was gone (we had almost two-hour delay on first flight so we were already sure that we will have to spend the night at the Prag airport, but after half a kilometer run we managed to get the next plane in the absolutely last moment) even if we were both tired as hell.

We have here a really great house. In the heart of the old town of Famagusta which is still an untouched by the large touristic stream historical relict fully closed with the venetian walls and consisted of medieval ruins and small streets remembering crusades times now coloured by oriental Turkish culture. The Courtyard House as it’s called, is place in an old raw of small buildings quite close to the cathedral and organized around an inner court. From the street you enter the big, high kitchen with large wooden table. From there you can go to the comfortable organized living room or through a wide glass door to the court, which is very sunny, nice place with limestone floor and a similar big table with some flowerpots around. From the courtyard there’s an access to two bedrooms, both with the own baths. The flat is nicely designed, the furniture is mostly really fabulous and the only disadvantage of the place is that it’s a bit wet. But after six weeks of rain (as we read in the note of the last users in the guestbook) that is no wonder. Anyway it seems that we are lucky because the first three days here are sunny and warm for us. Especially that we left Germany when it was cold, wet and totally grey, not writing about Poland where is still 50 cm of snow on the ground.

What amazes me most is the beautiful lemon and orange trees already full of the fruits which you can buy on the market in the price of the apples in Poland in autumn which means actually almost for freeJ Also you can buy fresh herbs like mint or coriander which look, smell and taste heavenly! Obviously first thing I’ve done was putting on the pair of leggings, light summer dress and the flip-flops and have a walk around to enjoy the weather and the atmosphere of a new adventure which that travel actually is for me.

Famagusta, 15^th February 2010