Just one unusual door from the old town, Paphos, Cyprus this week.
I need new doors for my house here, so I’m starting a project to have some traditional Cypriot doors copied for a porch extension. Continue reading
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Monday Window: 2/1/17
Happy New Year to you all.
Home in Cyprus it’s time to search for windows locally. Thunderstorms are making the task a wet one, but I did manage to find a little gem today. Continue reading
Monday Window: 27/12/16…
I’m celebrating the Christmas holidays in my Cyprus home this year and as Christmas 2016 passes and the New Year bringing 2017 into our lives is not far away, sad news today to hear of one my favorite singer’s untimely death, the iconic George Michael. His Greek Cypriot roots allowed this small island to claim some affiliation with this talented singer/songwriter. RIP, George.
Today’s Monday Window post is from the small village of Armou (Greek: (η) Άρμου). Continue reading
Monday Window: 25/9/16
This week it’s spot the window!
Close by my Cyprus home is the village of Lemba, home to the unique Cyprus College of Art.
The founder, Stass Paraskos , a prominent Cypriot artist, together with fellow artists and students decorated the boundary of the college with many avant-garde works, creating a sculpture wall over 25 years. Continue reading
Thursday Doors: 15/9/16
I featured an unusual window in the small Cypriot village of Emba in this Monday Window post. At the same house, the door is worthy of a post, which should have been last week’s offering for Thursday doors, but as I was felled by a nasty summer cold, my Thursday doors didn’t happen. Continue reading
Monday Window: 12/9/16
Day tripping to Limassol town in Cyprus, lunching at the new and rather glamorous Limassol Marina, then a visit to one of the property developer’s site offices. Continue reading
Monday Window: 5/9/16
Just one window this week. Not far from my home in Cyprus, on a journey I take frequently, I pass an old house in the centre of the village. Continue reading
Thursday Doors: 1/9/16
Up in the hills above my home in Cyprus is a beautiful little monastery called Stavros Tis Minthis which dates back to the 12th century. Continue reading
Skywatch Friday: 26/8/16
No, it’s a Cypus sunset, no-where near Italy…
Before sunset, from Mirage, Paphos, Cyprus…….
Linking with Skywatch Friday, pop over and check out the sky today……
Monday Window: 15/8/16
August the fifteenth is a Bank holiday in Cyprus. The Eastern Orthodox church celebrates the Feast of the Assumption. This day, dedicated to the Virgin Mary or Panayia as she is known here, is not a day of mourning for her loss, but a celebration of joy for the union of the mother with her beloved son, the blossoming of nature, the flood of emotions, and the return of people to their native land. Continue reading
Skywatch Friday: 12/8/16
After sunset at Coral Bay, Paphos, Cyprus…..
Am apricot sunset at Coral Bay….
Linking to Skywatch Friday a weekly challenge for sky lovers…..
Monday Window: 8/8/16
Windows on my worlds….. Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge : Morning #2
Morning all… Fresh figs picked from the tree for my breakfast….
Breakfast figs from my tree…
Thursday Doors: 4/8/16
Returning to Omodos in Cyprus, a small village in the Troodos foothills, the narrow cobbled streets of the traditional village are perfect for a door hunter….. Continue reading
Weekly Photo challenge: Details
Thursday Doors: 7/7/16….
A very typical Cyprus door, note the high, round handles, operating an inner latch… you see these in mountain villages on the old houses…often a door to a courtyard entrance rather than a house, hence the solid wood structure.
Offset by pink bougainvillea, a traditional pot and some rather lovely stonework, I wouldn’t mind a set of these at my house!
Traditional doors….
Linking with Thursday Doors , pop over and see doors for this week….
Monday Window: 4/7/16
Traditional Cyprus stone village houses are so appealing to the eye, especially when there are blue skies and fluffy clouds to offset the background. Continue reading
Thursday Doors: 30/6/16
Fifteen kilometres below the summit of Mount Olympus in the Troodos mountains in Southern Cyprus lies the picturesque village of Omodos. One main, wide cobbled street runs down the centre towards the Monastery of the Holy Cross. Flanked by mulberry trees the road is lined with cafes and restaurants and it is a popular mountain village to visit. Continue reading
June: The Essence of Summer
Sliding into June’s challenge a little late this month. There is no essence of summer in the desert, so after a visit home to Cyprus, I can add my summer essence….only the Stephanotis had a fragrance but all of the flowers are indelible to summer in Cyprus…. Continue reading
Monday Window: Window to a shrine….
Off the beaten track in Cyprus, away from the tourist areas, out in the beautiful countryside, you often find small shrines on the road-side. Small religious icons inside, behind little glass windows with candles and melted wax from the years of lighting… Hints of religion playing an essential part in village life. Shot in the foothills of the Troodos mountains near Omodos a couple of days ago…. Continue reading
Wordless Wednesday….
Thursday Doors: 21/4/16
Traditional Cyprus town house doors on an empty building in Paphos old town. Colonial style villas once lined these streets, now there are few left. The centre glass pane opens to allow air to pass through into the house. Continue reading
Almond blossom…
Spring is marked in Cyprus by the blossoming of Almond trees. Clouds of ethereal white and pink blossom appear, scattered over the hillsides, clear blue skies overhead. Continue reading
Monday window: #4 Panayia Chryseleoussis, Emba, Cyprus
The old church in Emba village…
Small barred windows at the ancient Byzantine church of Panayia Chryseleoussis, small circular windows in the dome too.
Garden Challenge : February: Monochrome
Ethereal in the sunlight
A feathery weed in sunlight, monochrome highlights the structure and formation of each frond.
Cyclamen in Cyprus….
My greatest pleasure is to come home… home is in Cyprus, a million miles in mindset away from the big Dubai city in terms of pace, progress and landscape and of course heat. Cyprus has its own special pace, the nation has been struggling through a turbulent period of ups and downs since it’s foray into the world of the EU and is still a divided island since the 1974 invasion. Continue reading
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