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Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean and the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean, located south of Turkey, west of Syria and Lebanon, northwest of Israel, north of Egypt, and southeast of Greece.
Cyprus
It was our second weekend in Laranca City, and we decided to rent a car to drive up to the north part of South Cyprus, near the border of North Cyprus (Which is, if you have already read about Cyprus, part of Turkey.)
We rented a car from a company called Cosmos Car Rental , And we had a pretty good bargain for three days. Insert details about car rental
Getting pretty drunk on friday night was not such a good idea when you planned to collect the car at 9am, in which we obviously slept through. However the car comapny was very nice enough to give us several call reminders and we eventually collected the car at 11.30am.
Our first stop was Nissi Beach, 35 minutes and 41,3 kilometers later, we had arrived in our destination. First of all, it was in the beginning of March, therefore, the place was basically a ghost town. Which was nice for us to explore a little, without being surrounded by drunk party people in the middle of the afternoon, especially when we were still suffering from our previous night.
Nissi Beach was a pretty site, however, we would have preferred a few stalls or shops to be opened to enjoy a nice drink while enjoying the view, unfortunately the while entire place was closed until the very beginning of summer or when its hot enough for people to stick their butts up (Minus the Germans. No hate please. I love everyone.)
Cyprus
My partner and I arrived Larnaca Airport (Easyjet) from Berlin (Flughafen Berlin-Schönefeld) on the 26th of February 2019 at 18:30. After a bumpy flight we finally made it through immigration and stamped into the country. For those of you who don’t know these budget airlines, they don’t provide any complimentary food or drinks (Bring your own food and water!!). Any who, we grabbed our suitcases from the belt and proceeded to the taxi line (No Line at all). Surprisingly, we managed to get a taxi within 5-7mins including walking to the car with our fat suitcases and backpacks. First of all, download a bloody offline map (if you do not have a European number or any roaming, trust me you will thank me), some of these taxi drivers will actually ask YOU to navigate to you desired destination (That’s if you don’t have a hotel booked to give a name of), Good thing I always come prepared. We arrived at our destination after 15mins (7.6km from the airport) which costed 15Euros (Bargain? Hmmm not sure, I just know that I won’t be taking another taxi anytime soon.) Firstly, the place we have is a very cute 2-bedroom apartment with only 5mins walking distance to the Finikounda beach, convenient. After dropping our bags, we decided to get some food and walked down to the beach, not a pleasant sight. We walked and realized that majority of the restaurants sold sushi! Unfortunately, if you decide to have a long-term trip in Cyprus, especially Larnaca, I suggest you cook and just eat out during the weekends or not at all. After walking for what I would say an hour (10mins) our indecisiveness lead to us having, What I personally call “Cypriot Traditional Fast Food”, I had Souvlaki in Pita bread and my partner had Spareribs cooked in a sweet BBQ sauce with a large number of fries and to pair with this disgustingly delicious meal, a free mug of beer each (Usually KEO beer, the company that makes KEO beer, also sells KEO water, and KEO juices).
Many more stories to come. Until then