{"id":9138,"date":"2005-06-22T18:00:02","date_gmt":"2005-06-22T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/22\/beach\/"},"modified":"2005-10-04T07:33:47","modified_gmt":"2005-10-04T04:33:47","slug":"beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/22\/beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><a href='\/wordpress\/wp-content\/beach.jpg'><img class='centered' src='\/wordpress\/wp-content\/thumb-beach.jpg' alt='Beach' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today we started the beach season at Kurium beach.  Unfortunately the water was still way too cold to have a proper swim.  We planned to also seabath Maxim for a bit, but had to cancel it.  I think there were overall about 10 people in the water for the whole length of the sandy strip.  Not only the water was very refreshing, but it was rather windy too.  Not the ideal conditions just yet.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I walked up to the neck depth and stayed in the water for the whole 10 minutes or so.  Olga and Tatiana went half the way, but spend there about 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>While sitting on the beach, I entertained myself with photography.  It&#8217;s been a while since my last beach visit, so I saw some things from a different perspective.  This time I am more satisfied with the results than I usually am.  I guess that will not last too long though..<\/p>\n<p>Album location: <a href=\"\/photos\/2005\/2005-06-22_Kurium_Beach\">\/photos\/2005\/2005-06-22_Kurium_Beach<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Today we started the beach season at Kurium beach. Unfortunately the water was still way too cold to have a proper swim. We planned to also seabath Maxim for a bit, but had to cancel it. I think there were overall about 10 people in the water for the whole length of the sandy strip. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/22\/beach\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beach<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,22,109,30],"tags":[111,48],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-9138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-cyprus","category-limassol","category-photography","tag-kurium","tag-potd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7852,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/29\/kurium-beach-and-ruins\/","url_meta":{"origin":9138,"position":0},"title":"Kurium.  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Olga's two cousines (Tatiana Babenko and Natalia Babenko) came to Cyprus for a few days, so we are back to the guided tour schedule. So, firstly we went ot Petra tou Romiou, which is also known as Aphrodite's birthplace. It\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7962,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/09\/26\/picture-of-the-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":9138,"position":2},"title":"Picture of the day","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 26, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Olga and I went to Kurium beach today, where I shot few pictures. There were few guys flying on the parachutes, but they were too far away and I was too lazy to get closer. Probably, I will revisit them one day.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7518,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/22\/is-it-beach-time-yet\/","url_meta":{"origin":9138,"position":3},"title":"Is it beach time yet?","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"May 22, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Today Hazard, Olga, and I decided to find out if it is the beach time yet. First destination was Kurium beach. It was sunny, but very windy and noone was swimming suggesting the low temperatures of the water. We then decided to regroup at some other beach within the city\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9133,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/21\/relatives-reloaded\/","url_meta":{"origin":9138,"position":4},"title":"Relatives reloaded","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 21, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Olga's cousin - Tatiana Babenko - came to Cyprus again. Last time she was here with her sister Natalia in September 2004. It's amazing how relative the time is. One one hand, it seems like only yesterday we had all this trips to beaches around the island. 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