Paphos Castle.

I forgot to mention how many cats live here - there are quite literally thousands! Tiny scrawny wee things with huge eyes and plaintive miaows, who climb up to our balcony and beg shamelessly for food. M is convinced they're all riddled with fleas and rabies and has been chasing them away with a mop. Very amusing to watch!

Today M and I accidentally went on a very long walk! We set off after breakfast to Paphos Castle, at the end of the harbour in Kato Paphos. It was an impressive building - used in its later years as a salt store and a prison. After exploring the grounds, we set out on a walk around the coast. The water is really clear and blue, and looks shallow in places and dangerous for ships. A tanker had grounded just up the coast from where we were walking, quite far out at sea, but perched high on a bed of whitewater that obviously denoted a shallow reef.

We walked a good mile before reaching another beach with a bar, so we stopped for a drink before continuing. We found ourselves back in the centre of Paphos, and stumbled across Agia Solomoni and its catacombs. It's supposed to be good luck to hang rags on the tree at the entrance to the catacombs which was very beautiful, but I found it hard to take a picture that caught the atmosphere properly so I ended up going with a picture of the castle from this morning, and will maybe go back to the catacombs later. Although the rags were mostly just scraps of babies' linens, ribbons and strips of napkins, flutttering in the breeze they made a very ghostly sight. As we walked down the steps we could see water had flooded the lower chamber, and the walls were decorated in religious shrines. Spooky!

On our way back to the apartment we stopped off at the supermarket again for a few dinner bits, then lay by the pool until we were hungry. Later, we watched a bit of TV and I turned the leftovers from last night into a pasta dish which we demolished with tomato, lettuce and feta salad. Yum! Tomorrow I think we might explore the archeological park that we walked past today.