Paphos Life

It looks like that also animals realize that the winter is over and spring had arrived. Yesterday lunchtime I watched this Praying Mantis hanging far away from garden plants on the house wall near the toilet window. I decided to move her with the help of an brush to shrubs in the garden. However bef...

I forgot to mention that I was using digital zoom between 600-12oo mm, the area where the rainbow ended was 10 km away near Choletria.

Max

I really wonder what the excitement for so many people is on a Sunday afternoon to walk in that snow slush... :roll: :roll: There are more people then in the past week, when it was fresh snow and sunny. On the other hand it is perhaps only me as I don't like snow and cold foggy conditions :) https:/...

Recently I posted a sunrise which lasted only a very short time. Today the weather was quite sunny with black clouds towards the mountains and in the late afternoon it was suspicious-looking for a rainbow appearing... and it did. However really only for 30 seconds, before a huge cloud covered it up ...

Hazardous looking clouds one could see lunchtime at the Paphos coast towards Coral Bay on the Tala webcam...

Here a screenshot



source: Meteoblue

Max

It looks like it was pretty bad there - If we had a bad storm in Paphos I slept through it... Well, I woke up from rumbling thunder very close and noisy at my place above Paphos just 1/2 hour before the Tornado happened in Limassol and unplugged electricity to computer and PV- inverter in my office...

This photo published in the press shows last nights Tornado, which struck very close to the skyscraper in Yermasoyia/Limassol area, leading to a lot of damage to EAC's electricity network there. I wonder how much the people living at higher apartments felt the storm in that building..... :roll: http...

If I am happy with the food served and the staff friendly enough I always leave a small tip for the waiter. I can see, I am not alone when out at Timi Fish Tavern and the tip box, which is of glass, got plenty of tips from their customers, which are mainly locals beside Russians and Chinese. What a ...

It was before sunrise this morning when I jumped out of bed to find my camera for this shot which I believe it was worth it as after seconds later it was all dull and windy and is still now.....



Max

It was a good idea to drive up to Troodos peak just after the heavy snowfall, as one week later, most of the white stuff is already gone...

Screenshot this morning from Meteoblue showing more stones than snow...



Max

Dominic wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 12:16 pm Just popped into Mesogi Road Lidl. Vintage cheddar currently only 1.99 a packet.

Just checked my Lidl magazine and it is 50% reduced from 14.76 to 7.36 per kg to only 1.84 per packet, offer until Wednesday....(page 20)

Max

Winter mood all morning at my place above Paphos town with more wind than the last days, and only 7c, however no rain after last nights rainfall of 20mm.

Webcams always show what's going on.... this image at 11.15 AM



Max

with just one more potato, this would have been enough for me for three days! It depends what else you are eating the rest of the day. For me it was the main dish after a breakfast of 1 slice of rye bread with butter, 75 gr Tilsit cheese, some cherry tomatoes, 1 banana cypriaka. No snacking between...

As I prefer fish to meat and my last fish lunch at Timi Beach was already 3 days ago, I prepared some quick and easy food today. I had fresh salmon filet in the fridge and frozen shrimps plus sole filets in the freezer, plenty enough for me as a fish meal. Had only to peel cooked potatoes and put th...

As the topic changed to mobile phoning now: I remember 1987 buying a very expensive unit to have a phone in my house which was then built in the nowhere, near Neo Chorion in case of an emergency like fire or illness... It looked mobile, however if I moved its position too much in the house I lost si...

Over in the east we have had just over 48mm of measured rain since yesterday midday, and still more to come. Lovely stuff. On our end at Paphos I measured this early morning 4mm from last nights light rainfall. It just shows how much it varies in Cyprus. Like yesterday, the morning image from the T...

Beautiful view from a Tala webcam showing the whole seafront from Yeroskipou to Paphos town and towards Coral Bay... this morning



source: Meteoblue

Max

Rain and Rain plus Rain we need desperately to fill up the dams, not a little morning shower. Our largest dam in Cyprus near Limassol is still only at 39% full and it is February in a couple of days....

Paphos town in full sunshine at 8 o'clock




Max

How lucky we are living in the Paphos South district shows this screenshot from a Tala webcam this afternoon. (source: Meteoblue)



Max

Many people complain how EAC works. I however was very impressed yesterday night when I had a power cut for a sudden due to rats preferring to eat the cables at my electricity box outside the house. A electrician came along after an hour I called, together with the landlord, saying he would not touc...