Wednesday, December 3/2014
Bus up to the inter-city bus station in order to catch the interurban bus to Limassol, near the village of Erimi, where Jenny's dad has invited us fo visit for the day.
Sam picks us up and takes us back to Erimi. A lovely house and all the flowers still in full bloom as autumn has been unusually warm. Paddy is away visiting her relatives in Northern Ireland, but Sam has invited another couple, Cynthia and Peter, and his neighbour Klaus to lunch as well. Lovely Middle Eastern dish with rice and chicken, and good conversation. Sam always a pleasure to talk to. He was born in Haifa to an English father and Arabic mother and is now retired from a legal career but is fluent in Arabic and maintains a keen interest in the Middle East.
No time at all before it's getting dark - always a faint surprise to northerners finding that it's dark before dinner when the weather is still shirt skeeves - and we're on the bus back to Paphos.