England

The Best Bagel Shop in the Town

On the day we walked around Shoreditch in East London, one of my friends said “We came all the way here, we should go and get Bagels”. According to her, the bagels…

England

Walk Around Shoreditch

There is an area called Shoreditch in East London. It used to be a shabby poor area and there used to be cheap leather shops here and there until about 20 years…

Cyprus

You Can Get Used to Being Anywhere

Now it is the last day of our stay in Paphos in Cyprus. When we had trouble at the beginning of the holiday, I felt perplexed and wondered if we could stay…

Cyprus

The Last Lunch and 300,000 Euros

After visiting the ruins in Paphos in Cyprus, it was the lunch time. There were many seafood restaurants along the sea front and all of them were touting for business. There was…

Cyprus

Mosaics in Paphos

The highlight of Paphos in Cyprus is the Archaeological Park. Most of all, the Roman Mosaics are worth seeing. We could see the beautiful floor mosaics, which were showing ancient mythological episodes….

Cyprus

Wall

The last place we visited in the tour to Northern Cyprus was the wall in Famagusta. The wall at the end of the row of houses in this photo is the one….

Cyprus

Mosque Which Looks Like a Church

We visited Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque, inside the wall in Famagusta in Cyprus. I could not believe it was a mosque as the building was nothing but a Gothic church. I have…

Cyprus

Ghost Town

There is a ghost town in Famagusta in northern Cyprus, not in the old town withing the wall, but outside of it. Before the Turkish invasion in 1974, nearly 40,000 Greek Cypriots…

Cyprus

Quickly Visited Salamis

During our individual tour into the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, we visited the ruins of Salamis. People lived here as early as the 12th century BC and now you can see…