16 October:
The take off of the flight to Paphos was two hours late due to brake failure!
Arrived safely, took taxi to Athena Beach Hotel getting in at about 10:30 local time.
17 October:
Today I visited the archaeological park at Nea Paphos and all the things that I saw are recorded in the diary.

18 October:
Visited the Sanctuary of Aphrodite at Palaepaphos (Kuklia) by bus, then on return to Paphos I visited the tombs of the kings and finally returned back to the hotel.

19 October:
This was a very full day. I started off by taking a taxi to the bus station in Paphos and then by InterCity bus for two hours to Nicosia. On arriving at Nicosia Solomon Square at about 11:30 I strolled along the old city walls are looking for the border crossing to North Cyprus at the Ledra hotel. Walking up through the UN demilitarised zone towards the border crossing was truly a very strange experience, with ruins from the hostilities in 1974, including the onetime premier Ledra Palace Hotel still present along the roadside.
I had a heart stopping occasion at the border when I couldn’t find my passport. I thought it was lost but found it in another pocket so I was able to cross and breathe again.
Since I had about two hours to wait until my higher car was delivered I decided to have some lunch served by a lovely lady who ran a small business near the crossing.
The car turned up on time and the representative helped guide me towards Girne where my hotel for the next few days was located. I finally arrived at the Bella View hotel and was ready for a good dinner and slept very well indeed.
20 October:
This being on Sunday, I decided to have a really nice easy day. During the morning I walked to Bellapais Abbey. These striking gothic ruins are probably the best of their type on Cyprus. They still have a profound peace.

21 October:
This was a very long day and I decided to visit Salamis by car as planned. The journey took me over the five finger mountains, otherwise known as the Beşparmak mountains and then onto the Mesarya Plateau. The mountain road was very winding and made driving an exercise in concentration, but was repaid by excellent views.
On the approach to Salamis I visited the monastery of St Barnabas built on the site where, according to tradition, the body of St Barnabas was discovered buried with a copy of St Matthews Gospel. The monastery is now an icon and archaeological museum. Most of the icons are fairly modern and to my taste not the best I’ve seen with respect to execution. Still, very much worth visiting as it represents a real contact with the fellow traveller of St Paul, murdered by the Jews of Salamis just 10 years after the journey they shared through Cyprus and into Galatia.
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Altogether I spent about three and a half hours at the site and in the hot sun and high-temperature I did feel a little desiccated but understood more fully the meaning of pilgrimage.
The drive back to Kyrenia (Girne) is about 90 minutes, and on arriving back at the Bella View hotel was ready for a good shower and a good dinner, the end of a very very good day.

22 October:
Another easy day spent relaxing at Bellapais and enjoying a really super lunch with four fellow guests of the hotel at a lovely little restaurant on the seaside called “The Hut”.
23 October:
Today was time to leave Cyprus. I really enjoyed my short visit to the island; it’s people are wonderful and life in the north of the island is much more restrained and a little more rustic than in the south. Departed my hotel at about 8 o’clock, returned the higher car and was driven by the company to Ercan airport for the 11:20 flight to Antalya. The plane arrived on schedule at 12:20. Hello Turkey. Taxi to the Tütav Adalya Boutique Hotel, my base until Tuesday 29 October.
24 October:
A fairly inauspicious start today I’m afraid. I took a taxi to the Antalya Rotary club dressed in fairly formal kit for their meeting scheduled at 12:20. It turned out that the Talya hotel where they meet was closed for renovations and there was no further information available on their website which had not been updated! During the taxi ride back the driver got lost so nothing further to do but to get out and walk back to my hotel.
The afternoon was spent visiting Antalya Museum. The museum and its grounds are very impressive and it houses one of the best collections of second century statuary I’ve ever seen. The majority of these were from Perge and give me a wonderful preview of the ruined metropolis of Pamphilia, which I hope to visit as part of an organised tour on Saturday. I took lots of photographs and purchased a lovely book on the statues at the Museum.
25 October:
I spent most of today looking around the old city of Antalya called Kaleiçi. Walked around the ancient walls and visited Hadrian’s gate, built to commemorate the Emperor’s visit in about 130 AD. I also took time to visit the Kaleiçi Museum, which has a great collection of 19th-century photographs of street vendors, a remarkable reconstruction of the interior of a town house of the same period, and an extensive collection of local ceramics housed in what had been St Georges Church.

26 October:
Today I took a day trip to Perge (Perga), Aspendos and Side organised by the Nirvana travel service. The trip cost 147 Turkish lire but was well worth it. I started by being picked up at the hotel at 7:50 in the morning and by the time all 14 members of the trip were picked up we arrived at Perge at 9 o’clock. It was early enough to avoid most of the other coach trips so we had the site almost to ourselves. The site is very large and takes about two hours to walk through it at a normal pace. For me some of the highlights were the Agora, the basilica, the Roman baths and the palaestra. Outside the boundary of the site there was the truly magnificent stadium and also an excellent theatre which unfortunately was closed during my visit since it was undergoing renovation. The interpretation of the site was substantially helped by the visit to Antalya Museum where the marvellous collection of statuary is to be found, which is mostly second century however. It does not take much imagination to envisage Paul Barnabas and Mark present in the city.
Aspendos is probably best known for its ancient theatre probably one of the best remaining in of the Roman world. The city itself is quite a steep climb up above the theatre with many remains to be seen but the climb was well worth the effort for the superb view of the ancient aqueduct system with its inverted siphon to bring water to the city. Had a pleasant lunch with the tour group on the banks of the River Eurymedon, which a mile or so downstream is crossed by the famous late Roman bridge. Side has some interesting remains including a large theatre and the temple to Apollo. The trip concluded with a cool and refreshing visit to the Manavgat waterfall. The trip organisers dropped me off at 17:00 in the middle of Kaleiçi and I walked back to my base by the Roman harbour.

27 October:
It’s Sunday and the eve of the Turkish national holiday which celebrates the foundation of the republic, but more importantly for me it’s the eve of the arrival of Javinder and the start of the next phase of the journey. I intend to meet Javinder on his arrival at Antalya airport by travelling out by the airport bus which departs from the city bus terminus (Autogar). This is about 3 miles from my base at the harbour and I walked there just to find out all about it, which took about one hour. I returned by the city metro service which was a lot easier and which I will definitely use tomorrow.