We are so happy to all be together in our new destination. The last year of having my husband overseas was a rough one. We are all enjoying Cyprus! If you are not on Facebook, you have not seen pictures of our beach adventures, so I will try to post some here soon.
We went with friends to the mountains on the south side to see a Monastery. We had mezze lunch in a little village on the way. Mezze is where they bring you a little bit of everything. Is it usually fairly cheap, delicious, and a lot of food. A sample mezze meal would be: salad, humus and/or tahini, tzatziki or yogurt dip, pita or some type of bread, olives, grilled halloumi (my favorite!! which I never liked in the states), a bunch of different meat and potato samplers, rice and/or couscous, some type of grilled or cooked vegetables...and usually some other delicious surprise...fried cheese balls or a cheesy pasta bake. 2 Mezzes will feed my entire family, with enough leftover for another two meals. It usually costs about 10-15 euros for one mezze, which is 13.80-20.70 in dollars.
Our wine came in a gourd instead of a bottle.
Our kids are at the very top of this little climb!
This is the above village from the other side of the mountain. We drove all through the mountains. They were beautiful!
Below is the monastery that we visited from the opposite side of the mountain.
No pictures are allowed inside the monastery, but it was beautiful. It had elaborately painted ceilings and beautiful gold candelabras hanging everywhere. There was mosaic tile work and beautiful art pieces everywhere. If your shorts were above the knee, you had to wear a robe so that you were "appropriately" dressed.
As we left the monastery to go down the other side of the mountain.
We also went to another church this same day, I will post a follow-up about that church tomorrow. It has a really cool story and pictures were allowed inside. The church was on the side of a cliff...
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