Sunday, January 21 - Speedo Wearing Brits


On Sunday, we headed back to Pafos during the day to see the main tourist sites:
a) Tombs of the Kings – an ancient cemetery (3rd c. BCE) with hundreds of subterranean burial chambers cut into the rock. My souvenir was a nice little bump on the noggin from head butting a 2000 year old doorway.

b) Agia Kyriaki and St. Paul’s Pillar– this small church was built in the 12th century (still in use) to memorialize the spot where St. Paul was given 39 lashes for trying to convert the governor to Christianity.
c) Kato Pafos Archaeological Site - a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of the tremendous mosaics that adorn floors of lavish villas (now ruins).
d) A late lunch of greasy fish and chips (since Cyprus is a sea of pasty Speedo wearing Brits in the summer, there are a ton of British pubs) tided us over until our early evening stop at a coffee shop. Coffee shops here by the way aren’t the normal “Starbucks,” but hip spots with music, cool furniture, games (backgammon and chess are popular, but we found Connect 4 and byo’d a cribbage board), full of Cypriots smoking and chatting for hours.