Day 2

We were sweltering in the very late summer heat, 30*C during the day and 22*C at night, sweat always appearing out of nowhere as soon as you stepped out of the air conditioning.

We spent a lot of time pool-side in the morning.

In the afternoon we set out for Paphos. We were trying to find the Cyprus Tourism Office (CTO) to get some maps of the cities and the regions. We parked twice in 2 different places to ask for directions, the directions were specific, but we still managed to get lost in the one way systems. On our way we drove through ghost shopping malls, a byproduct of recession? (but the general atmosphere seemed to be somewhat better than last year!). Old women were sitting outside the closed-down shops, they couldn't understand English, but at least they managed to say "Don't speak English"!

The CTO was a tiny little establishment administered by a woman in her 50's wearing a lot of eye make-up. But, she did give us the right directions to the local pottery shops. We got all the free maps we needed and headed out again in the summer heat. To cool off, we got ice-creams, 1 Euro a scoop, but it was melting fast.. 

Another good thing that happened was we got a deal on BigBro's summer slippers for 5 Euros a pair in one of the shoe shops .. quite a bargain. We could have easily gone overboard with LilBro's shoes as well (all the kids shoes were 5 Euros a pair), but sanity kicked in and decided they are not needed. There were a few other shops with a lot of discount in store as well. But, we had a fear of getting a parking ticket on our car as the parking meter where we had parked was out of order. So, we hurried back to our car, suppressing my shopping carnage and everything was fine.