Counting down the days until we're off to Corfu (5 days and 35 minutes). Whilst it's Greece I'm heading for, I wanted to devote this post to Cyprus which is the primary purpose for learning the language in the first place. Since I have never been there I'm looking at the Cypriot points of interest in the country which would help me when I make that journey in the near future and potentially anyone else who makes that trip too.
You can see that there are 4 main regions in Cyprus (Paphos in the West, Limassol in the South, Larnaco in the East and Nicosia in the North) that sits underneath the UN buffer zone.
| Limassol | Λεμεσός (Lemesos) |
| Larnaca | Λάρνακα (Larnaka) |
| Nicosia | Λευκωσία (Lefkosia) |
| Pahos | Πάφος (Pafos) |
So now you know Cyprus is cut up in four, you might want to know the best places to visit when there. I'm unashamedly ripping the below list from a review website which I'll be using myself when popping over there.
Ayia Napa
Paphos Castle
Larnaca Salt Lake and Hala Sultan Tekke
Kourion
Kolossi Castle
Cedar Valley
The Paphos mosaics
Greko National Park
Church of Saint Lazarus, Larnaca
Lastly, to get it back to language here are some place descriptions in Greek that should be useful when navigating around here and there. One caveat is that Town is normally referred to as a poly (πόλη) which is the same as whats used for City. In some rare instances people use a different term for Town which is shown below.
| bus station | σταθμό λεωφορείων (stathmó leo̱foreío̱n) |
| police station | αστυνομικό τμήμα (astynomikó tmí̱ma) |
| fire station | Πυροσβεστικός Σταθμός (Pyrosvestikós Stathmós) |
| hospital | νοσοκομείο (nosokomeío) |
| airport | αεροδρόμιο (aerodrómio) |
| town | κωμοπολη (komopolee) |
| city | πόλη (póli̱) |
| village | χωριό (cho̱rió) |
| seaside | παραλία (paralía) |
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