events

Egyptian Bazaar

Those of you who passed by Limassol Municipal park recently have most probably noticed that there is something going on in there. The event is called “Egyptian Bazaar” and it is organized from October 8 until October 17, 2004. This event occupies a small fruction of the parkwith a few minishops selling all sorts of goods you would expect in the Port of Alexandria, Egypt. In other words, items such as leather wallets, sweet nuts, nargile, pieces of furniture, musical instruments, and clothes at very low prices and of doubtful quality. The main fun is of bargaining, for those who enjoy it. Others can watch those who enjoy the bargaining. Rather entertaining I must say.

Anyway, Olga and I walked around a bit, bought three packs of sweet nuts and made a few pictures. If you are in the area, I recommend you to pass by and enjoy the event. The entrance is free and you don’t have to buy anything.

The pictures are here.

‘Day of Delights” in Pafos, Cyprus

According to Cyprus New Association, the Municipality of Geroskipou (Pafos area) is organizing an event around cooking the biggest loukoumia (also known as Greek delight) in the world and getting on the pages of the Guiness Book of Records. The event starts today with the preparations and cooking this huge thing and will continue until Sunday 17th of October, 2004.

As usual, the information is very limited, so if you know anything, please share via comments or email.

If you want to know more about this loukoumia thing, a couple of encyclopedia entries are here and here.

Third Amateur Song Festival is coming

Like I promised, I’m letting you know as soon as I learned myself. Third Amateur Song Festival is coming. It will be held on 30th of October 2004 (yes, in a couple of weeks) in Kakomalis (same place as before). Organizers and volunteers will be there around 15:00-16:00. Everyone can join. The song festival itself will start around 18:00-18:30.

I am surely planning to go. I’ll have to see how many people will want to come with me and how many will fit in the car. If you want to go and lack transportation, please let me know as soon as possible and I’ll help you to arrange something.

If you want to follow the news and read Russian by any chance, than here is the thread at Russian Cyprus Forums.

Posts in my blog about previous events of this festival are here and here.

Milena’s Birthday

Here are the pictures from Milena’s birthday party (today for those in the unknown). It was a great party with lots of excellent food, drinks, nice people and music. Especially music. Especially towards the end, when there was a real rock concert with electric guitar, bass, keyboard and a couple of microphones. Cool!

Photography-wise it was pretty tough. There was defenetily a lack of light. Most of the pictures were done with ISO1600 setting, f4.5 or f5.6 aperture, on-camera flash, and some are still blurry. It seems that I really need a more powerful flash unit.

Troodos Rally 2004 pictures

Subaru

Together with Hazard we managed to locate the last stage of Troodos Rally 2004 today. We’ve almost missed it, but than God has sent us an Angel in the form of a loud blue Subaru car, which put us back on track.

The rally itself was pretty boring, with most of the cars barely making it, driving very slow, etc. I could find only one viewpoint good enough for photography. But still, the main thing is that we did it!

The album with all the pictures is here.