We started the day with a yummy breakfast again. Here’s where we ate each morning:

I took a final walk on the promenade while chatting with my daughter, Abby Boyum, most of the time. She stays up very late, so we often FB message in the morning my time (middle of the night her time). I love this time of the day because I don’t feel so far away from her. Here are some more pictures of the beauty to be seen from the promenade.

You can see Pafos Harbor at the other end here (I hadn’t realized that’s what it was until we visited it the day before):

Pafos Castle looks pretty small from here (this is zoomed-in a bit), but it’s there!

I then worked out in the hotel’s gym and we both cleaned up. We left at noon and had to have the car back by 4:00, so we didn’t have a ton of time to play. We’d planned to take a long stroll along the promenade in Limassol on the way home, but it took us a looong time to find a parking space, so we decided to have an adult beverage instead and just stroll for 10 minutes down and back. (BTW, I had a wine called Petritis. I find the name to be of interest because if a word ends in “itis” in the U.S. it means that something is inflamed. Think “appendicitis” or “diverticulitis,” for example. The suffix “itis” comes from Greek and Latin. The wine – which is made in Cyprus, where they speak Greek – was very good, and not at all inflamed.)

We saw this large piece of artwork along the promenade. A person can fit inside and still have plenty of space above their head, to give you an idea of the size.

We made it home with 15 minutes to spare to avoid being charged a boatload extra for the car. All in all, it was a nice trip, even though it was short. We are taking a break from archeological sites for a while. I, personally, am ready to visit the mountains (Cyprus’ version) and some wineries.

The marina is pretty dead now that the Christmas Village is gone. The restaurant is only open on Saturdays and Sundays. Thankfully, the coffee shop is open every day. The baristas rarely smile and they don’t ask you for your name so they can cheerfully call upon you to collect your beverage. Still, the coffee is good and they have nice food treats – both sweet and savory – as well.

The marina’s small convenience store has cheese, eggs, milk, lots of beverages of all kinds, lunchmeat, snacks, cleaning supplies, etc., but no meat (other than some lunchmeat) or produce. Thankfully, you can order food online from the same company. Since our freezer was entirely empty (oh, and I defrosted it again) and our refrigerator was nearly so, we ordered a boatload of food. It was delivered right to our boat. Super convenient! I’d ordered “1” bunch of celery and received this much:

That turned into about 70 celery sticks. 🙂 🙂

It is so nice to have fresh produce again! It is hard to find it at restaurants so we are going to town on it: sweet potatoes, beets, potatoes, onions, peppers, apples, plums, pears, carrots, zucchini, another kind of light green squash, tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, kale, mushrooms, garlic. . . . yum!!!

We ate at the restaurant our first Saturday back because the groceries didn’t arrive until Sunday. They surprised us with a free dessert and was it very good! Warm apple something with chocolate ice cream.

Thank you to:

We often see cats wandering around the marina, particularly where there is food nearby. Two of them were taking the opportunity to chill on the coffee shop’s chairs when the shop wasn’t busy. Aren’t they cute!

The Yanmar mechanics are supposed to arrive on Monday. If they manage to fix the port engine, we will be able to leave the marina to do some sightseeing from the boat. I particularly want to visit some beaches and Cape Greco. Fingers crossed!