Suitcases join boxes in the mezzanine storage room for the week With J&B to Famagusta. Fields still green - their winter not summer colour. Hotel is inside the castle, near the city walls - which are mostly 15th and 16th century. We book in and Jane comes with us to check out the room. Not much bigger than the double bed (well, not technically a double bed, but rather that European monstrosity, two single beds pushed together, with separate bedding except for the bedspread). But we have become so assuming in recent years. Just think of the Great Bed of Ware, now ensconced in the Victoria and Albert Museum, but in the sixteenth century able to accommodate four couples. Expectations clearly different. Small balcony, large cupboard, loo. We all eat lunch at a nearby restaurant - Cyprus sausages, salad, chips. The city is full of ruins, many of them of fourteenth century buildings, so we wander a bit and stop for coffee. Our home for the next week.
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