The ride to Nicosia takes about one hour. Our first stop was to the Cyprus Museum. This was a wonderful museum which covers artifacts from 8th Century BC.
The front of the museum.
Some of the artifacts on display.
This is a rhyton of faience found in a tomb at Kition. The surface is covered with thick blue enamel and decorated in three registers with running animals above, in the middle the hunting animals, and a running spiral below. It is dated from 12th century BC.
Next we visited St. John's Cathedral. You could not take pictures inside the church. And it is a Greek Orthodox Church where they stand for most of the service.
This is the home of the Bishop. Quite large for one man.
And the outside of St. John's Cathedral.
Finally we stopped and walked the streets where we found a Starbucks. We went in and I had a Chai Tea and Bob had his coffee. There were about three other couples from the ship in with us.
We returned to the ship and had lunch, nap, needlepoint, tea and trivia.
Tonight they held a special dinner for the Grand passengers who were getting off in Rome. We sat at a table headed by Franc (General Manager). The other two couples were from Quebec and spoke French but also English. Franc is French also so I told them they had to speak English because we do not speak French.
The dinner was a 7 course Italian Dinner. The food was delicious. And the company was grand. We had a wonderful time and we were the last table to leave the party.
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