Cyprus - Kourion again

Kourion, like Paphos, is one of the sites that you can't not show to a visitor, so Rick and I headed down the B6 to visit it. Every time we go up to a ticket office, since Rick has been here, and ask for "2 seniors" they wave us through for free. Love it! and will enjoy it for as long as it lasts.

A tour bus pulled in behind us so we skipped past the first villa and moved on to the amphitheatre.

 

looking down from the stage, more ruins that are not really on the tourist radar.

From there we walked over to the "earthquake house".

Later, in the museum we saw the skeletons of the young family that were excavated from here.

Lots of wild Cyclamen now.

I stopped to paint the olive tree near the Christian Basilica and Rick wandered the rest of the site on his own.

Not far from the "earthquake house" was a fenced area where another excavation was underway with tarped areas and rocks with numbers marked on them.

Next we went to get more strawberries but the woman at the stall said they weren't growing well due to the cool weather. It took stopping at three different places to get enough for us, Jimmy and Madelaine (a walk member who had expressed an interest if we were going back). Then we wound our way into the museum in Episkopi.

A marble lion table leg from Kourion.

It was amazing to see, intact clay figurines dated to about 4,000 years old. Wow!

 

By then I was starving and although Episkopi is quite a large village we could not find any where to eat. We finally stopped at a large building where someone was eating at a table outside. We went in and ordered a sandwich and realized it was a community  centre or legion or something like that, not a restaurant at all.

When Rick went to the florist to get me a rose for Valentines he mentioned that he had owned a florist shop. She asked where and when he replied "Hamilton", she said "Hamilton, Ontario? I have relatives in Kitchener".