Today, we checked into our hotels in Paphos for our weekend trip. Afterwards, we visited the Kourion Archeological Site, Petra tou Romiou, the Paphos Mosaics, and the Tomb of the Kings. The Kourion Archeological Site is a beautiful site of an excavated Roman bath house in addition to a Greek amphitheater that was later turned…
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Spending the Day by the Water
Disregarding the sunburn I got, yesterday ended up being a very fun and relaxing beach day. After sleeping in for a bit we woke up and went straight to the beach. I noticed not many people were in the water, and I recalled our tour guide saying that many people in Cyprus do no start…
Blockchain and Bitcoin
Today is the start of our second week in Cyprus. We start back up business meetings today and today they are held at the university of Nicosia. Our first business we talked to was Fleet Management Limited. They are one of the fastest growing ship companies in the island and specialize in managing ships. They…
Technology
Today we spent the day at the University of Nicosia. At the beginning of the day, we met with a company named Fleet Management Limited (FML). They are the second largest third-party ship management company. They manage all types of ships and have twenty-six offices around the world. FML signs contracts with ship owners to…
Lectures, lectures, lectures
We had a company visit this morning with Fleet Management Limited at the University of Nicosia followed with two lectures in the afternoon. One of them was about cryptocurrency and the other one was about blockchain and forecasting. Starting with FML, they have been operating for 28 years and are the 2nd largest third party…
Rocks at the Paphos Beach
After our first week in Cyprus, we finally got a day to relax by the beach. I have enjoyed attending business meetings and visiting many sites in Cyprus, but waking up at eight am for the past couple of days has not been easy (especially with the jetlag), so by Sunday I was happy to…
Paphos Part 2
The second day in Paphos was mostly spent at the beach. It was rather sunny today which made the beach even more fun. The Mediterranean is so clear, very different from the Atlantic I’m used to. You can see to the bottom no matter where you are. Also, the water feels invigorating. It is a…
Paphos Part 1
To start off the trip to Paphos there was… a ride on the bus. But once we arrived we toured Kourion Archeological Site. We got a glance at what a Cypriot town looked like centuries ago. The bathhouse of the town was dug up and we were able to see one aspect of their day…
Nicosia to Paphos: Visiting Kourion, Aphrodite’s Rock, Tombs of the Kings, and the Paphos Mosaics
Cyprus is home to many of the world’s most historic sites. Today, I was excited to visit four of them during our journey from Nicosia to Paphos: The Kourion Archaeological Site, Aphrodite’s Rock, Tombs of the Kings, and the Paphos Mosaics. Kourion was an ancient Greek city-kingdom built in the hills, overlooking the sea. Today,…
Sushi by the Mediterranean
I started off the day by walking along the beach back towards the Paphos Castle. The beach was a surprisingly narrow strip, with most of the activity happening a little further from the water on solid ground, and the promenade was more upscale and permanent than anything I’ve seen at a typical American boardwalk-style beach….
Beach Day in Paphos
Today was easily the most relaxing so far! Luckily we were able to get our bus extended from 12pm to 3pm, so we had some extra time to enjoy the beach. Our hotel room was super nice and so was the breakfast. It was mostly the same food as our normal hotel, but the tropical…
Relaxing in Paphos
As amazing as all of our trips and visits have been so far this past week, I’d be lying if I said if I wasn’t anxiously waiting for our first full beach day. Today it finally came, and it was so much fun! Almost everyone from both Cyprus Plus 3 groups met at the beach…
The BEACH!
Today we had our free day in Paphos. We started the day with a nice breakfast at the hotel, then we went down to the beach for the majority of the day. Then we rushed to lunch and then to the bus to head back to Nicosia. At the beach we played volleyball with people…
Day Seven: Beach Day in Paphos
Today was just a nice day to enjoy Paphos on our own. I started the morning sleeping in more than we normally got to which was really nice. We visited a local coffee shop, Costa Coffee for a nice salted caramel frostino which was a very unique drink. I’ve noticed that coffee in Cyprus is…
A Group Beach Day
Today, we had the entire day up until 3 pm to enjoy the Paphos beach. In the morning, myself and a few friends decided to explore and enjoyed frappes and croissants at a local coffee shop. I found the difference in types of coffee offered to be very interesting – there was an entire section…
A Trip to Paphos
Today we started our overnight trip to Paphos. We stopped at a few places on the way. We started with a tour of Kourion archeological site. It was so cool to see how they built each part by digging so much underground. There were many bathing areas including a hot and a cold bath section….
Day Six: A Trip to Paphos
Today we embarked on our journey to Paphos for an overnight trip. We made numerous stops on our way that included some very historically astonishing sites. Our first stop was the Kourion archeological site which are the remains of the island’s most important city-kingdoms. I loved seeing and learning about the remains of the House…
Paphos and Greek Mythology
Today we did cultural visits at and around the city of Paphos. First, we toured the Kourion archeological site, where we saw ancient ruins of what used to be a bath house. The bath house was constructed around a central fire, with several baths around it. The closest baths to the fire were the “hot”…
A Day on the Beach
On Sunday, we were given free time to spend on the beach in Paphos. After eating breakfast at the hotel, my friends and I went to the beach around 10am. We sat under the sun for a while, and then got in the water. The sea was very cold, but we still swam out to…