Old Paphos Revisited

[Dominic]

Six months ago we posted a blog optimistically titled "A Last Look at Old Old Paphos". It proved very popular. In fact, with nearly 3000 views, it is our most popular blog to date. Six months down the line, the renovations are still not yet complete. So we thought we would take another look, to see how the work was progressing.

Read the article and chat about it below...

[cyprusmax47]

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Max

[Dominic]

Fixed now.

[Bograt]

Lovely, thank you. It is going to be some sight when finished. I particularly enjoy the opportunity of walking around slowly and looking at the architecture.

In answer to your question about the large circular "thing" that is on the tilt: we saw it being used as a kind of balance board thing. People were on there with knee pads, moving around in sync and thus tilting it in various directions. I imagine it is quite hard to do but very good for your core strength.

[LouiseCastricum]

Where you ask What Is This, I have seen some people showing how to kind of dance or move on this giant wheel. Fun to look at, but looks quite difficult.

[Dominic]

Oh I remember a smaller version of that in a playground in the UK. I was no good on it. I doubt I will be any better on a bigger version.

[cyprusmax47]

Lovely, thank you. It is going to be some sight when finished. I particularly enjoy the opportunity of walking around slowly and looking at the architecture.

In answer to your question about the large circular "thing" that is on the tilt: we saw it being used as a kind of balance board thing. People were on there with knee pads, moving around in sync and thus tilting it in various directions. I imagine it is quite hard to do but very good for your core strength.

I wonder if there is one member good in Celtic mythology. I ordered many years ago in Germany a leaded glass pane which looked exactly like this one, just the size was only 1 meter diameter. I cannot remember what the meaning was but perhaps the world as a disc. (what I remember only was the horrendous prize I paid for it.)
Max

[PhotoLady]

We had our wedding photos taken in this park, back in 1999:

[Kili01]

It's a great improvement on what was there before the work started. But I wonder about the (to me ) excessive width of some pavements which border the few remaining roads which are still open to traffic around the central part of old Paphos. In a town where few people want to walk more than a few metres from their car to any shop, or anywhere else!
Also I hope that more shops in the central area will reopen, shop keepers have told me that they fear that some have moved their businesses to other more accessible parts of the town, while others have simply closed due to financial difficulties caused by months of chaos in the old town. It would be nice to see the whole area busy again with lots of interesting shops! A place where tourists want to come. Dee

[LouiseCastricum]

Whenever I visit the area, new shops are opening, also there is plenty of parking space in the area now. I'm sure that when the market area is finished lots of tourists will go to the area again.

[Yioula]

Thank you Dominic for the update blog very interesting as usual
I have mixed feelings about the pedestrian way .......agree totally that that Ktima was in urgent need of a facelift........in parts I feel it's taken the authenticity away.
There has been a lot of confidence lost by the shopkeepers who have closed/sadly done out of business, hopefully the confidences will return and it will return to the busy town it used to be, not been able to park in the doorway of the shop they wish to visit will be a great issue to some.

[Dominic]

This could perhaps explain why they have been brightening up the car parks with all those murals? It will give people an incentive to park, possibly.

[Jim B]

I personally think it's a vast improvement on what had become a very run down area.

Jim

[Dominic]

I personally think it's a vast improvement on what had become a very run down area.

Jim

Me too. And I love the murals.

[PolemIan]

Dominic, the big round balancing thingy was used by a performance group as part of Pahos2017 a couple of Fridays ago. Take out the supports and balance etc, or in my case fall off immediately on anything like that!

Nice pictures, thanks. To be honest we've never really done the old town, always looked scruffy and not exactly enticing. When complete, I think we'd go for a stroll now, looks better to my eyes.

Ian

Ian

[mike strand2]

One cannot disagree that WHEN it's all finished, the transformation will be fantastic. However, whoever it was that drew up the works programme should have been hung drawn & quartered. Do a road, finish it & move to the next. Not try & do it all at once with such a small workforce! I also wonder when the new Makedion theatre will be finished & be open to the public?

Featured on the BBC News yesterday was the construction of a new Opera House in the grounds of Bamber Gascoigne's stately home. Value 10 million pounds and virtually completed in less than a year https://grangeparkopera.co.uk/2017/04/f ... t-century/