days 31-38: north cyprus (part I)

The last few days were soooooooo much fun! Flo and I went to North Cyprus for a nice summer holiday. It was kind of nice taking a holiday during my holiday (kind of holiday) this summer. I think Jonas is reading this blog, so shout out! He even quoted it in the bus today so he gets a special shout out. We left Ulm at 4:00 pm Wednesday, took the train to Munich then hung around the airport until it was time for our flight to leave. Just in case you ever need to spend a few hours in the Munich airport, there isn't much for dinner unless you want to spend around 12 Euros for a nice meal, so go ahead and eat the Burger King outside. We thought about eating outside but then decided there would probably be some in the airport too, but we were wrong. So yeah...our flight was delayed a few hours so we played some Fußball that Lufthansa had out because of the Euro Cup.


Around 3am our flight landed in Larnaca, Cyprus. From there we hired a taxi that took us to the border because you can't rent a car from the South to the North, so we were dropped off at the border and picked up our rental car. The guy didn't speak English and Flo and I don't speak Turkish, so our directions were kind of messed up. He kept making some weird motion with his hands and saying "very improtant" which is what that semi-circle shape is on the picture to the left.
I kept critiquing the roads but they kept getting progressively worse.











We arrived at Burhan's Place around 7am Thursday morning. It felt very isolated there, and the electricity cut off at midnight but that added to the whole feel of the place. Burhan was nice and so were the 2 other staff members, Enver and Mustafa. As soon as we got to the bungalows, we crashed for a few hours then went to the beach for our 100% relaxing/no work at all beach day.
The water was so clear there, one Flo-length deep and I could still see the lines in the sand on the floor from the waves.

One weird thing about North Cyprus is there were lots of half-built buildings and houses. It was like they started building then took a break and kind of stopped sometime before the second half of the house was finished. Or if the buildings were falling down then the people moved out and built a new house next door without tearing down the old building.










We drove around Dipkarpaz and walked around the ruins of the Ayios Basilica built in the 4th century, A.D. It was pretty well preserved for being around for about 1,700+ years.

end of part 1.