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Our adventures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus continue....
 
During the winter George, Susan, Joan and I had been over to the South to see what the ski areas were like and had spotted a restaurant near to Troodos village which seemed very popular with the locals and vowed to return. As there was so much going on around our villa it seemed like a good idea to get away or the day.
Some of you may have made the trip up the Trodos mountains, but have to say that it is a very beautiful part of the island. We crossed at the newest border crossing, near Guzelyurt and made our way up into the mountains that way. We stopped a couple of times on the way up at
some small pull in places just to saver the views and the lovely shades of green that the conifers are up the sides of the hills. The smell of pine is absolutely wonderful up there and there are also some very pretty villages nestling in the mountains. One of the many tourist attractions in this area is Makarios monastery , but being Sunday it was incredibly busy and we also discovered that you can only go in to the monastery in suitable clothing, there were tourist police there turning people away. When Bill and Margaret come over in September we will make it a day out as feel it must be really worth seeing.
There are a couple of excellent ice cream stalls near by and we had the chance to partake,all the rest of the area is souvenir shops as you might expect.
We found our restaurant in a village just below Troodos itself and for £6.00 each we were able to go to the open buffet and just help ourselves. There was a whole range of cold and warm starters to form a local meze and this was followed by lamb kleftiko or beef afelia or grilled chicken and then a fruit table to finish off with. We washed this down with a couple of beers and now realise why it is so popular. Superb day out.
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