Category: Limassol

This is my home. This is where I lived, worked, and enjoyed life for more than ten years now. This is where most of my friends and family are.

TripAdviser can be confusing

I’ve heard plenty of good things about the TripAdvisor website.   I’ve never used it myself yet, but I know that a few people that I trust with reviews do.  Today, I was searching for information on a restaurant and Google suggested that I check out this TripAdvisor page.  Looks good, doesn’t it?  Here is a screenshot of it, just in case it will change in the future.

 

Reviews, ratings, and even photos – that is all very useful.  But I needed more.  Given that I had no idea where exactly the restaurant was, I thought the most helpful details would be the address or at least a phone number.  A link with “More restaurant details” only told me that I’d need a reservation.  But again, no information on how to actually make the reservation.

Without that basic info, the rest is pretty much useless.  Gladly, that’s not the only website on the Internet.  This one seems to have both the address and the phone number…

Agios Nicholas church, 2012

Yesterday, I had an opportunity to stop by the Agios Nicholas church.  The church was destroyed a few years ago when it went completely under water of the nearby lake.  This year Cyprus saw plenty of rain, but so far the water levels haven’t reached that far yet.  There is still snow in the Troodos mountains, but I don’t think that melting those will be enough to drown the church again.

Have a look at my Flickr set for previous pictures of this church.

Tsiknopempti

Yesterday was Tsiknopempti – one of my favourite Cyprus holidays.  There are many names for it in English, but none of them really explains what’s going on.  Some of the names are “Barbecue Thursday”, “Meat Thursday”, “Grill Thursday”, “Smelly/Stinky Thursday”, “Fat Thursday“, etc.  Most of the people work only half day, and from around midday or so, the grills are coming out and everyone is cooking meat – ribs, chops, sausages, etc.  The smell of barbecue is in the air everywhere.

Today, is a Recovery Day.  But I don’t know yet if anyone is celebrating it but me.