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Troodos Rally 2004: Section 6

As I have already mentioned, Cyprus Automobile Association (CAA) has sent me the itinerary for Troodos Rally 2004. Tomorrow, the last day of the event, has two sections – Section 5 and Section 6. Races of Section 5 are way too early in the morning, so I guess we’ll skip them all. Section 6 though is a bit later and it does progressively gets closer to Limassol. I am thinking of watching one race, either from Delikipos at 10:00am or from Monagrouli at 11:15.

In case you are interested in the event, I have pinned down few points of tomorrow’s Section 6 on this map of Cyprus (2.6 MBytes JPEG with 3232×1993 pixels).

Troodos Rally 2004

There are some indications in the web, that Troodos Rally 2004 starts today and will proceed for the next couple of days. Cyprus Automobile Association has a tiny bit on its website. There is also a brief mentioning in the news by Cyprus News Agency.

I have both called and emailed Cyprus AA for more information. Email hasn’t got a reply yet. Phone is very tricky for handling Special Stages information – names of Cyprus villages are tricky to foreigners (me and the lady on the other end). I’ve got only few tiny bits.

The ceremonial start will be today in Nicosia at 20:30. Tomorrow, Leg 1 will go through the villages Tseri (6:53 and 12:41), Rouva (not sure about the name, but time is 7:51), Kalo Chorio (8:19), Pyrga, Kalavasos, and few other. Leg 2, on the day after tomorrow will go through the same stages, but in reverse order, if I understood correctly.

I will update this post if I get any more information via email or otherwise. Please use comments or email to let me know if you have any information regarding the event.

Update (1 Oct 2004, 13:30): I’ve found another news article, which mentions Kronos village.

Update (1 Oct 2004, 13:36): RallyBase has an entry for Troodos Rally. Currently it lists only the event of 2003. Winning drivers information might be useful.

Update (2 Oct 2004, 13:17): I’ve got a reply to the email. They have sent me
this file (MS Excel format, but OpenOffice nicely opens it) with all the locations and times of the event. Cool! They also said that fans can pass by Cyprus AA office in Nicosia to get maps free of charge. Office address is on their website.

Update (11 Oct 2004, 20:04): Links to RallyBase in the article were wrong. Fixed. Thanks to RallyBase website webmaster Tjeerd.

Irina birthday

First flowers

Most of the day Olga and I spent in the mountains on a picnic dedicated to Irina Georgiades first birthday. There were plenty of kids (about the same age), many adults, lots of food, drinks and other fun.

I have made a few pictures, of course. This time I tried to stay out of talbe overview type photos, which are so usual and boring. Instead, I focused on portraits. Light was pretty good – sunny day with few clouds and we were under the shadows of trees. Some pictures came out with screwed up exposure, but most of them were OK.

The album is here.

Wine Festival

Wine festival

My mother was so persistent for the last few days, that today I finally took her to the Wine Festval. Nothing changes in there in years – same wineries, same wine, same food, same kiosks, same music, same souveniers. It was pretty interesting for her, since she was for the first time. I used the walk as a photo opportunity.

Pictures turned out to be the same as pictures from everyone else from any other year. The results are here if you are still interested.

Perseid meteor shower

Lev, Hazard, Olga and I went to see the Perseid meteor shower today. I even took my camera and a tripod hoping to make a couple of wonderful pictures. Unfortunately, the skies were not very clear = there were some really ugly moving clouds. And we didn’t manage to get far enough from the city. Plenty of lights were still on at Kurium beach, so the star visibility was rather poor.

We have seen few very nice meteor drops, but it was really impossible to photograph those. I had the camera constantly on 30 second exposure shots, but all that was coming out were black skies with no stars or meteors.

The activity of the rain was poor too. We have seen only about 5 or so very bright and long-tailed meteors. Another 20 or so were spontaneous, random and in different regions of the sky. Finally we got bored and went home. So, no supershower for us, eh.