Since living in our beloved Polemi, we have had to drive early into Paphos on a fairly regular basis, especially during term time. The morning mist has been a regular feature. It is often paints a picturesque scene, to cheer up the grumpiest soon-to-be-teen on their way to school. On numerous occasions I have meant to photograph it, but, mornings being mornings, I have always been in too much of a hurry.

Today though was different. I had done my Paphos chore, and was returning, camera in hand, at my leisure. I am still getting over a nasty cold, so should have gone straight home. However, I couldn't resist the opportunity for a few early morning mist shots.

Getting a nice position for a photo can be quite painful though. To reach this vantage point I had to park in a field and walk through a bunch of very thorny gorse bushes. Two days later, as I write this, I am still picking the occasional spike out of my legs. So I must remember to wear thicker trousers in future. My cold is now on the wane though.

Anyway, in this picture, I am standing to the left of the Kallepeia to Letymbou road, near the big signpost before the Polemi turning. If you look carefully to the middle left you can see a hill with a squat building on it's summit. The building is a water tower, and the hill itself is optimistically billed as "The Mountain Peak of Agia Marina". It is where we are now headed.

Polemi has a much bigger water tower than the one on top of the mountain. I was going to take some photos of it with the mist in the background, but on driving up to it, I couldn't decide whether it was in somebody's back garden or not. I don't like invading people's privacy, so instead I drove around the tower, and took a picture there.

This valley, between Stroumpi and Polemi, is the one I am most interested in, as the Paphos road cuts across it.