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Cyprus is a year-round island. There is always a new world to discover. In Cyprus East meets West and a new experience awaits for you under the sun everyday. Inviting beaches and breathtaking mountain trails lie around the island. Once you’ve been to Cyprus ... you’ll come back again.
Two of the four Wright Cadet buses recently acquired by OSEA buses in the east of Cyprus.
On the left is MKT 037, new in the UK as YJ53 VEB with Bakers of Biddulph.
On the right, MKT 892, new to London General as it DWL 19, FJ54 ZDT.
The Saint Hilarion Castle lies on the Kyrenia mountain range, in Cyprus near Kyrenia. This location provided the castle with command of the pass road from Kyrenia to Nicosia. It is the best preserved ruin of the three former strongholds in the Kyrenia mountains, the others being Kantara and Buffavento. Saint Hilarion was originally a monastery named after a monk who became a hermit and chose the site for his hermitage, with a monastery and a church built there in the 10th century. The Byzantines later converted it into a fortress.
Docklands Light Railway unit No. 76 departs Cyprus at the rear of a Beckton to Canning Town service.
On the right, Docklands Light Railway unit No. 119 approaches working a service to Beckton.
Cyprus Day 6.
Driving around being tourists we stubbled upon this little owl out in the full heat of the day.
Cyprus Day 4. Cape Greco.
After the wheatears I got back in the car and drove back towards the Cyprus warbler slope picking up a group of chukars on the way. The Cyprus warbler was in it's normal place but other than it's buddy, the spectacled warbler, all I saw was a lesser whitethroat and a chiffchaff - though I did feel cheated that the latter two warblers were not something a little more exotic.
Agrós is the main village of the Pitsiliá area in the Troodos Mountains in Cyprus. Some years ago a hotel was built in Agros, the Ródon Hotel, which is a joined effort of the inhabitants and people originating from there to generate jobs and income for their village. The Rodon Hotel is very popular with both Cypriots and tourists visiting the Troodos region.
Agros produces mainly fruit. Therefore it has become a centre of processing these fruit into all sorts of preserves, jams, compote in small work shops run, mainly, by women of the village.
But the most “fragrant” product of Agros is the rose, the “Rosa Damascena”, which is used for the rosewater, toiletries and even a jam!