Boxing Day. Officially a holiday here, and most places other than restaurants and bars are closed. Lots of people down at the waterfront - kids with Christmas presents, tourists, foreign students, lots of locals. There's a little train that takes people along the waterfront and up past St Lazarus. Booths along the beach selling balloons, popcorn, ice cream, nuts, inexpensive jewellery. Actually, though, not as much as on other years, or maybe just not as much as at Epiphany. At Europa Square, though, there is a set of trampolines for harnessed kids to bounce on. J and I over to Harry's by St Lazarus for coffee. Almost too hot in the sun, but at noon there's not much in the way of shade. Cyprus coffee at Harry's always accompanied not only by the obligatory glass of water but also by a treat of some kind. Today it's melomakarona, the little soft, honey soaked spice biscuits that are traditional at this time of year. Not that we're running short of calories.
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