We Took A Sick Day

Saturday was a little off. This dry, beatifully weathered island received rain as if it knew one of its visitors was struck ill. It was overcast outside and in. Tina was sick all night; and the day, though better, was painful. Time to rest I guess.

She slept and recovered. Later in the day, I tooled around a little bit and got a better lay of the land. I also visited one of the view points where you can observe the "No Man's Land" between Southern and Northern Cyprus. Without getting into too much detail, or being particularly one-sided, it is off-putting looking into a stretch of land that divides two peoples and is militarized. I mean, you cannot even take pictures out there. There are some 150,000 Turkish military troops in the North, and they will confiscate your camera.

The view point also had a little museum, where you could see the Greek point-of-view on the atrocities of the Turks. There were some very telling propaganda posters and photographs of Famagusta before the Turkish invasion in 1974. It's amazing what kind of beautiful beach town this was then. Now, it looks like Berlin post-WWII. That's not the only parallel with Berlin by the way.