Limassol; Sunday, 28 January, 2024

I think it would be fair to say that there was less to do in Limassol, at least in January, than I’d accounted for in days spent here so I took advantage of not having much planned to have a nice long lie in, a late breakfast and then just to sit out on my balcony in the sun drinking coffee until the time came to checkout of the hotel.

With my luggage left with the hotel I caught the bus into town and hopped off by the Municipal Garden to have a wander around that for a little while, and – as it’s located within it – pay a visit to the city’s zoo.

I was pleasantly surprised with how much there was to see in the zoo, I’d thought I’d be round and out in less than 10 minutes, but there was enough there to fill up nearly an hour.

From the zoo I stopped off at a little seafront kiosk for a quick bite to eat before hopping back on the bus to the hotel.

I had a bit of time to spare before my shuttle back to the airport so I was able to make a quick costume change, swapping the shorts for jeans and grabbing a hoodie out of my luggage for the inevitable cold arrival back into London.

As requested, 15 minutes before my pickup time I was outside the hotel waiting for my shuttle connection back to the airport, turns out that once again nobody else was interested in the service and instead there was a taxi driver already waiting outside who was clearly delighted that he didn’t have to wait around to get going.

An even speedier journey back to the airport – with only two or three near death experiences – than the ride in. I arrived early enough that I was worried checkin might not be open, but it was and there were no queues either, so I can only assume it had opened quite a bit before and had cleared the initial round of people waiting.

Of course with the speedy taxi ride and checkin, and an equally speedy journey through security and immigration, it meant I was at the gate nearly 2 hours before the flight was due to depart for our journey back to London.