We had another exciting day today.
Last night I noticed that a shop next door to our apartment hired electric scooters, Gill was less keen but I bullied her into having a go and great fun we both had. In ordinary “stealth mode” they do 10mph but put them into warp factor 9 and they zoom along at 17mph, quite exciting for an old bloke but you can see why they are illegal in the UK, you could do a pedestrian a bit of damage if you hit them at that speed. I thought that at 10€ each bike per day was a bargain, then I realised we are only paying 7€ a day for a £25,000 car!
We scooted for about 14 miles in total passed a salt lake where we took a lot of out of focus pictures of flamingos (see above). It is right by Larnaka airport, I am not sure it is a great idea to have so many large birds next to a runway, fortunately we depart from the other Cypriot airport.
Last night we had a rather bland meal in an Italian restaurant, tonight we are going to try a Lebanese restaurant, neither of us have much idea about Lebanese food so it could be interesting.
We can’t eat at home, this morning I fancied poached eggs and was about to go out and buy some eggs when we realised the apartment, although very flash, does not have a cooker.
It seems to have been built as very swanky offices, there are two toilets on the ground floor (for men & women?) and a tiny kitchen which has fancy drinks machines, a microwave but no toaster or cooker. Upstairs what were probably supposed to be two meeting rooms are the bedrooms and then a laundry room and bathroom have been built in a corner.
I always try to stop Gill from cooking on holiday but somehow it would be nice to have the option, fortunately there is a good restaurant not far away which does that traditional Cypriot fare – a Full English.
The picture opposite is of the Hala Sultan Tekke Mosque which although a 19th century building, houses the tomb of Umm Haram the "wet nurse of Mohammed", she died in 649AD and is venerated by Muslims.
Below is an aqueduct built in 1745 which is 10km long and was still delivering water to Larnaca in the 1930's.