I got as far as Miyu coffee shop, no further.
A cappuccino and smoothie.
I had intended to walk along the seafront, stay to rest, but it turned cool and windy.
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Protaras late afternoon and early evening
June 11, 2023Patisserie Amelie
June 9, 2023Ice cream and cappuccino at Patisserie Amelie.
Pistachio ice-cream excellent, cappuccino LaVazza not good.
Patisserie Amelie is one of the better coffee shops in the area but they need to ditch LaVazza.
Il Boccon Divino Osteria Italiana
June 9, 2023Dinner at Italian restaurant il Boccon Divino Osteria Italiana in Eden Square in the centre of Protaras.
Pasta with ragú, tortellini al ragu Toscano, red wine, followed by complimentary ice cream. Cold dish, chewy chewy pasta, ragu good. Bread to mop up the sauce. A glass of red wine.
When I finished my meal, a complimentary small scoop of vanilla ice cream.
If wish for ice cream, the best ice cream in Protaras to be found at Patisserie Amelie. The coffee is drinkable, though LaVazza.
At nine-thirty loud moronic music from nearby a bar that kills the restaurant, empties rapidly of clientele. It gets louder and louder. I am forced to leave.
The useless Mayor of Paralimni needs to act to deal with this noise nuance, that is killing restaurants in Protaras.
Wok in a Box revisited
June 8, 2023Thursday evening, once again I miss the bus from Larnaca. I will arrive too late in Protaras to eat in the Italian restaurant I had planned on visiting.
I grab something to eat from Wok in a Box. I was disappointed. Nothing wrong, but not as excellent as Tuesday. Why?
I noticed something I had not noticed on Tuesday, each vegetable added, an extra charge. I chose fewer vegetables.
I discussed it with the owner. He said a franchise, the vegetables weighed. The concept is good, but does not need a franchise, and don’t charge extra for the vegetables.
My only other change, beef not chicken. And a different chef.
The owner said fewer vegetables would affect the taste, and asked what sauce I chose (black bean sauce). If I came again he would choose a special sauce for me. He thanked me for my feedback.
Menta coffee shop
June 8, 2023Tuesday, I noticed an old domed building. I go on a detour. Nothing to say what it is. Behind an urban park. I learn from a man in an old workshop by that it is an old Catholic ichurch.
Nearby I find Menta speciality coffee, I walk in. I decided to order cold brew. A group of people who walked in after me, can’t decide what to have. I ask, can I order? No. I walk out.
A few hours later I return. I ask of the cold brew, as no longer on show. A carafe is brought out. Cold brew mixed with orange juice. Weird. Why ruin a good cold brew? A glutton for punishment. I decide to try.
I mention I had seen a thin slice of orange through which the water drips. I am curious.
The barista shouts at me in Greek with his fingers pointing in his ears. Not a clue what he is talking about, I ask him to explain. What you say goes in one ear and out of the other. I am not interested in anything you have to say.
A closed mind, someone who will never improve. I walk out.
Several guest roasteries. Too many bags of coffee. Unless a high turnover will have stale coffee.
Area 51 from Athens, I have yet to try and have a good coffee, in many coffee shops, including their flagship coffee shop Lot 51, though not as bad as Starbucks.
There are three excellent coffee shops in Larnaca
– Koffea
– Paul’s Coffee Roasters
– Nick’s Coffee Bike
Menta has more reviews on Google maps than coffee shops of a few years standing. Strange that. Even stranger, many reviews are singing from the same hymn sheet.
Update:
Novel if nothing else. Attacked by barista cum owner of Menta for a review yet to be posted. If nothing else proves the point an unpleasant ignorant individual.
I visited Menta twice. I have no reason to attack the three excellent specialty coffee shops in Larnaca.
#coffee #coffeeshops #Larnaca #Cyprus
Larnaca afternoon warm and muggy
June 8, 2023Konnos Bay, dark clouds rolling in. Thunderstorm.
Local bus to Ayia Napa, change at Ayia Napa Sculpture Park for Intercity bus to Larnaca.
No time fo more than a brief look in the Sculpture Park.
Larnaca the same black clouds rolling in.
Shoe store behind Larnaca Castle. Picked up a pair of leather sandals.
I need suoerglue. My old sandals falling to bits.
Tuesday, I had noticed an old domed building. I go on a detour. Nothing to say what it is. Behind an urban park.
I ask a local business. An old church. Greek Otherdox? No, Catholic.
A lovely old restaurant. Not open until 2000. Only meze.
I notice opposite, Menta, speciality coffee. I walk in. I decide to order cold brew. A group of people who walked in after me, can’t decide what to have. I ask, can I order? No. I walk out.
To Lazaris for a yoghurt bowl.
I walk by the new coffee shop I found on Tuesday. I say I will come back for a coffee later. I do not think to ask when closed.
Make Koffea before it closes. Drop of a coffee newspaper.
Make Nick’s Coffee Bike before closed. Espresso followed by an excellent dark chocolate topped flapjack. Strictly speaking not a flapjack.
I pass by a jazz cocktail bar, I had not seen before. It opens at six. I cannot stop, make a mental note for a future visit. Head to Menta.
Pig ignorant arrogant owner unbelievably rude. I walk out.
Head back to the jazz cocktail bar. Chat with owner and bar girl about cocktails. Lovely little garden out the back. I order a Negroni, I leave half finished.
I miss the bus, again.
Grab something to eat from Wok in a Box. Disappointed. Nothing wrong, but not as excellent as Tuesday.
Intercity bus to Ayia Napa.
Stay in Ayia Napa. Not a place for a night visit. Drunken scum roaming the streets.
Street lined with fake Italian restaurants.
I head to a restaurant I know. They greet me. I was only going to look in and say hi. I stop and have a bowl of soup and a glass red wine. Dreadful karaoke bar opposite.
Larnaca very hot afternoon
June 6, 2023Missed one local bus, caught the next bus in time to catch Intercity bus from Ayia Napa to Larnaca. No time to walk through the Ayia Napa International Sculpture Park, although it would have been too hot.
Last year a gate across the entrance to Larnaca Marina. Now no way in though I managed to find a way. No surprise no one walking along the wooden walkway. The marina destroyed by a greedy Israeli property developer. Boat trips have seen a huge drop in business thanks to this greedy grasping property developer trashing the marina.
Very hot, too hot walking along the seafront. Stalls from the water festival still line the seafront blocking view of the sea. Tat, and more tat. Why not put the stalls in the road, leaving access for emergency vehicles? But that requires imagination, not Cyprus village mentality.
Yoghurt and fresh made lemonade at Lazaris.
Look in on Koffea. Too hot for a coffee. No one around.
Look in on Paul’s Coffee Roaster, no time to stop.
Nick’s Coffee Bike. Now closed at six. No one around.
I notice walking from Paul’s Coffee Roaster to Nick’s Coffee Bike, many closed shops. I had noticed last year, but now far worse.
A recently opened shopping mall is killing Larnaca. Bloody obvious if look elsewhere.
I am invited to join a vigil at Ukrainian memorial on the seafront. War criminal Vladimir Putin has destroyed a dam in Ukraine.
I once again have wrong bus time. I thought 1915, it is 1945.
Feeling hungry, I grab something to eat from Wok in a Box. It is excellent. But no time to finish, bus arrives.
Change at Ayia Napa, dinner at Adama in Protaras.
Moussaka Monday at Happy Days
June 5, 2023Red wine, vegetable soup, followed by moussaka and salad.
Excellent.
Ravioli’s risotto
June 4, 2023
Strange soup, red tomato and fish soup. I decide not.
I don’t know what I was served, but of one thing I can be sure, formaggio e verdure, it was not risotto. A strange glutenous mess, that bore no resemblance to risotto.
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