[ MOOD ] At the end of lovely North Cyprus

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
14/10/2009 20:02

The end of another day, seems I'm in a poetic mood..!

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The hill-fortresses of Northern Cyprus...

"Buffavento stands higher and St. Hilarion can show more perfect ramparts and turrets, but neither recalls so strangely a forgotten age, neither seems so thickly peopled wits ghosts, as this lonely ruin on its pillar of rock, the superb castle of Kantara. Seeming to hang in mid-air, it dominates this end of lovely North Cyprus..."

Location: http://is.gd/4jsQv

Picture: http://is.gd/4jutX

Again I realise why I left Holland!

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
14/10/2009 20:05

Read

Picture for Location

and

Location for Picture.

Some days everything on tyhe computer goes wrong...

chico


Joined: 18/03/2008
Posts: 119

Message Posted:
14/10/2009 22:48

The one place I know where you can understand 'the sound of silence' - amazing!

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
14/10/2009 23:01

I've seen shooting stars only twice in my (longish) life.



First time, a couple of years ago, sitting on our balcony, quite late at night. More recentlly outside a restaurant in K-oglu - magical.



Despite all the over-building, etc.etc. you can, at times, experience 'perfect peace'



Chico - exactly!

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
15/10/2009 00:21

Jeannie and DC you are right . I have seen and wished on many shooting stars here. Some nights when I get home I just sit and marvel at the skyline xxxx

scoobydoo


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 2434

Message Posted:
15/10/2009 06:59

DC,



Quote: 'Again I realise why I left Holland!'



I can understand tbat, there are no hills in Holland!!!

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
15/10/2009 08:08

RE msg 6, scoobydoo: (...) there are no hills in Holland!!! (...)

=> Oh? Clogs, tulips and no mountains? Another myth! In the Southern part of the tiny Kingdom of the Netherlands we have the "Vaalser Berg" (Vaals Mountain), which climbs 300 metres towards the sky. Errm, 330 yards looks better, I think... While starting my military service (1963) we had to run to the top of the bl**dy "mountain" every morning - omg how I hated this Vaalser Berg...

scoobydoo


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 2434

Message Posted:
15/10/2009 13:42

Sorry DC, I could only think of clogs, tulips and windmills when I think of Holland!!



Good exercise though running up those hills, can you do it now?????

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
15/10/2009 17:32

RE msg 8, scoobydoo: (...) Good exercise though running up those hills, can you do it now????? (...)

=> Scoobydoo, didn't you read the year when I had to do my military service (10x?). 46 Years ago! Run? Now (20x?!).

scoobydoo


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Posts: 2434

Message Posted:
15/10/2009 21:57

DC,



sorry missed that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!