Larnaca awash with plans for new hotels, including one robot hotel, whatever that may be when it’s at home. Mediterranean hospitality meets high tech and you can indeed have everything? Thus: “This is fully in line with [the] goal of making use of listed buildings so as to save our architectural and cultural heritage, give character to the city, and offer diverse accommodation options.” Accompanying photo showing the city beach somewhat short on sense of architectural heritage.
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| Larnaca city beach, Finikoudes Avenue |
Sadly can see the coast of Spain with acres of tourists in the shade of non-stop high rises in the future here. Do try to be fair. The upscale square - well more accurately triangle - in front of the Eleonora where we first stayed twenty plus years ago is probably more attractive to tourists and the affluent young than the bus parking cum news stand that was there when we first knew it. But where are the old men who used to sit there with a cup of coffee and a newspaper or backgammon game? Tidied out of existence? They’re certainly not drinking the highly priced coffee. And w miss them. Not that deteriorating buildings should be preserved in situ to meet our nostalgic needs. And we ourselves are happy to have accommodation with plenty of power points and no entry points for the rats. So there it is.
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