Have lamented the disappearance of the old boys - the coffee drinkers, the smokers, the backgammon players - from the Mediterranean city centres. But not completely disappeared. This photo taken between the animal charity shop and the second hand store. Not far from the square by the Eleanora that has become all upmarket coffee shops. Yes, do ask if it is ok to photograph. Bloke on the left grins and the backgammon players go on with their game.
Come home past what used to be the tennis courts and remember that they’ve been moved - actually a couple of years back but seems we don’t usually take this route. There are new and reportedly impressive tennis courts elsewhere, but more interestingly this has allowed the excavation of the ancient city of Kition which lies underneath modern Larnaca to expand. Human habitation in the area goes back to Neolithic times (nearby Khirokitia is 6000 years old and a moving place to visit). Larnaca/Kition not quite that old but it was a port city in Mycenaean and Phoenician days and there have been recent finds of the remains of berths for docking triremes. This is all within a kilometre of various places we have stayed over the past twenty-four years and the site is accessible for a small fee but apparently there is very little to see - unlike Pafos, for example, where a day’s visit is really not long enough.
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