Cyprus

Boxing Day, fly to Limassol, Cyprus with Saga flying with BA. Silver Card gets us into business class lounge with lunch and wines.

 

Sunset seen from plane

Our accommodation is Elias Beach Hotel, on a fully inclusive basis. Buffet meals are good but included wine is pretty basic...





We have a seaview room and are upgraded to a superior room with a separate seating area.

We take one of the two included excursions and visit an olive farm and mill. It's harvest time and growers bring their olives to be pressed. 

Olives are sucked through base of hopper to the destemmer
First the olives are emptied into a hopper to be destemmed. After all the material other than olives have been removed, the olives are washed and weighed - growers pay by weight of olives that are pressed.


Then they are pressed under these revolving stone wheels. The oil goes to numbered tanks and the growers fill the containers they have brought with them. 

Apart from the oil not needing fermenting and thus being ready as soon as pressed, the process is otherwise  the same as winemaking.

There's a beach walk  into the outskirts of Limassol, the centre is five kilometres from the hotel. A bus runs there every 10 minutes.

Hotel from its jetty

 Juicy oranges on the buffet

Gala dinner on New Years Eve and a countdown to 2018

And we returned home on 2 January 2018 

Sunset from beach.



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