Meet J for coffee, this time taking the alternate route, parallel to Makarios Avenue, the main street. It follows the sea, with the port area fenced off between the sea and the road, and more than fenced - barricaded with rolls of razor wire on top of the wire fencing. It should be nasty and depressing but, oddly, it isn't. For one thing, it's quiet, unlike Makarios, which is noisy and polluted. A block away the street feels almost village like. A few business establishments but many homes - small apartments and houses. Gardens and flowers. The feel is village, despite its running beside a commercial port. This ends with a large dirt-surfaced parking lot adjacent to the marina and then the municipal bus depot, newly paved. And then the promenade. Pleasant walk, and about five minutes shorter than our usual route.
