Month: Jul 2013

Today’s visitor in the frangipani tree, now denuded of leaves, is this frill necked lizard – I saw it from the house, to give you a measure of its size, and I rushed down to get a closer look. Little green tree snake was sunning itself, by the pool,  while this elegant gentleman with ruffles was…

The return to down under was relatively smooth and the day that greeted me was crisp with clear blue skies and a lovely temperature of about 20 C. This is the time, now that it is officially winter, to explore the markets and venture out a little further and I did just that recently going…

Nature has been forceful and up front in Cyprus this year and perhaps it is just coincidence but is this not the year of the Snake ? I have seen more snakes this year then I have in my whole life and none more vivid then the display we witnessed a few days ago in…

This is the island I return to every year and bring my children to, but this year it is almost unrecognisable in the way it has been beaten and bashed and left empty and wanting. I could spend the rest of the blog attributing blame, the president who left the island in a good financial…

We travelled to Cyprus on the boy’s hated airline Easyjet which to them somehow is anything but easy but there were no hitches on this journey and we even arrived 20 minutes ahead of schedule.  This coincided with another packed Easyjet plane from Manchester. Some 600 passengers all trooped into the arrivals hall and there…