Yellow is the predominant colour in the springtime displays in and around the Ezousa Valley.

Where was I? Yes, the road ended at the river when we first visited. Now though, it has been extended and carves a route across the valley to Kallepia and Letymbou. This in itself isn't that odd. What I find confusing though, is that the road looks old. It looks like it has always been there. Yet I can distinctly remember trying to drive down the river and having to give up. We can also remember having to drive from the other direction and having great fun negotiating the riverbed.

You can see here how the waters have been cutting into the banks. The ground to the right in this picture is also incredibly muddy. Guess where we have to go?

That wasn't too bad. Fortunately, there were no hidden boulders, and my car has decent off-roading tyres. It was very slippery though. You have to be very careful driving off-road around here. There is one track in particular, that winds up the hill towards Axylou. From a distance, it looks well used and in good condition. Looks are deceptive. It looks well used because the ground is very chalky. But that is misleading. Years of rain have carved gorges down the road and it is impossible to drive up all the way. However, if you try, you also find it impossible to turn around, so you have to reverse backwards, down the atrocious track. Once, when we had accidently started driving down the track from above, we tried escaping back the way we came, but the chalky floor is like ice, and impossible to drive on, so we had to continue downwards. Unfortunately, I had been able to turn the car round, so this just meant I had to reverse down the hill. Alex was with me, and got out of the car to guide me round the biggest obstacles. I remember being on two wheels at times, which in a Pajero comes as quite a surprise. The killer though, was when Alex leant into the car to retrieve her phone, saying that if I went over the edge she would need to phone for help.

As I said, treat the hill tracks around here with respect...

Anyway, I had driven through all the mud, then successfully navigated an area of the track that had been overtaken by the river. However, it became clear that a lot of the track was now underwater. I learned a few weeks ago that roads like this can get very deep, when I was approaching Foinikas from Nata. So I got out of the car to check the route.

Then things got strange!