The five hundred and fifty year stone wall on our house. Sitting on the deck we can see all the patterns in the stone and cement, pictures forming in the mind’s eye. A wall that was here before the Ottomans, before the Venetian period. Back in the French Lusignan time. How many people have looked at these walls inside and out and seen the pictures and dreamt the dreams. Who were they? What did they think? They looked at the same mountain behind us and down to the same blue sea below.
They ate the fish and drank the wine - winemaking in Cyprus has been taking place for close to 6000 years. They picked lemons in the winter sun, although most oranges were planted much later. But the olives were here and the figs. And honey in Cyprus goes back to antiquity. Bread too. Wheat was cultivated here by 6500 BCE.