Cyprus

Next is a surprise card from Andy and from his trip to Cyrpus earlier this year.

I dont receive cards from Cyprus that often, and the last one on the blog was published back in 2011, so yeah, a card from Cyrpus does deserve a spot today :)

Unfortunately, I cannot figure out where any of these places are... not that Cyprus is THAT big, but still :P

Funny thing about the postcards mailed from Cyrpus... I read somewhere recently that none of the postcards there have been postmarked, and even though my previous Cyprus cards prove that theory wrong, this card proves it right. So I dont know if it had become a habit in the last few years and in the end it is certainly better than a pen scribble, but still... it is a pity.

The stamp on the right is from a set of 6 Christmas stamps issued in 2017, and I guess the child here is writing to Santa.
The other one is a Cyprus Refugee stamp from 2018 (these have been issued since 1974)

Thank you Andy!!

Cyprus

I was really astonished when i realized that it's been like two weeks since my last post....dont know how I managed to lose track of time....I mean, I knew that my last post didnt happen two days ago, but this was rather shocking.....but life has just given its own reasons...so postcards had to come second or third...

so without further ado....

here is a lovely but undefined card from Cyprus..I have absolutely no idea where this is, and it could be just anywhere in the country...yet the combination of white, blue and purple is beautiful.
recently ive found myself digging into the older boxes of cards, so i somewhat have decided to focus on them more...so today again, all the cards you will see are ones I had received back in 2009....ive realized that among those older cards, i have some rather rare countries as well, and it is really a pity to keep them all hidden..,,

the big stamp is from a set of eight 2008 stamps, named Cyprus through the ages, while the smaller one is the Refugee fund tax stamp...the one that seems to be commonly used on the Cypriot mail

Pafos, Cyrpus

It feels so awkward to have my Monday off and spend it at home actually..well, not entirely, i did have a number of things to finish which instead of running smoothly, had to be hectic and with problems totally UNNECESSARY! But i dont know...this is my first Monday in more than a month, to actually be at home...and you know what? I HATE it! And with that said, i can move on to the card....

The theatre at Pafos in western Cyprus lies in the north-eastern corner of the ancient town, diagonally opposite the harbour. It seems to have been built early in the life of the town, in the last years of the fourth century BC.
It seems to show close links with the architecture of Alexandria, as one would expect given that Pafos was the Ptolemaic capital of the island, and there is every chance that it reflects the style of the theatre of Alexandria, which is no longer preserved.

It seems to show several features that are important to the evolution of ancient theatre design, not least its semicircular form.

The theatre is only partially built into a hill and the rest was built up with an artificial earthen embankment on which stone seating was placed. To the south of the theatre a paved road was constructed parallel to the stage building in the third century AD. Excavations through part of it have revealed a series of closely-dated deposits which are proving to have far-reaching importance for the chronology of pottery and glass of the 3rd and 4th centuries.
In the 13th-15th centuries AD there was a sizeable farmstead over the area of the stage-building, and it is part of important medieval activity in Pafos, in the period of the Crusaders.

 

there are two stamps used on the card. the one on the right is from a set of 8 stamps issued in 2008, from the Cyprus Through The Ages series, with this stamp representing the Early Roman Period (30 BC - 324 AD). The other one is the 2009 Refugee Fund tax stamp....whatever that means...

 

and another "small" detail for the end....i received three written and stamped Cyprus cards at the same time...the other two were left untouched, but this one had to be ruined by some postal worker...they just HAD to stamp it and say that Macedonia is recognized by Greece as FYROM...why cant they just leave out politics from my postcards?!!! its frustrating!!! see how far this Macedonia-Greece issue is going to?? its just annoying =|

Cyprus

And the first card for today comes frooommm CYPRUS!!!!! Which makes it a totally new country in my collection! Yup, this is my very first card from Cyprus, thanks to Sylvia!

Syliva is one of  those people to whom i owe a message...but really, how can i message someone with 'hi your lovely card arrived, thank you' when Sylvia herself is a coffee addcit as well?! See my point? There is always something extra i wanna tell people, something we have in common, something that they had said and which had intrigued me..so, this whole collecting postcards thing is not only about what you get on the front but also what you get on the back....and thats what makes this so meaningful and makes me stalk the postman...and  the ladies in the post-offices in hunt for stamps...which are always lacking...and the ladies at the stores which sell postcards, which are terribly scarce...but im managung :)
And im having a nice mug of coffee right now...even though its 11pm...i like drinking coffee at night...coz things around are more quiet then and the coffee itself feels different than the one you drink in the morning or afternoon for example...so a cup of coffee at these hours, at the pc, with some nice music in the background, when you dont have to worry much about deadlines and all...feels just amazing....and Robert Smith's voice for some reason goes perfect with coffee...not maybe all The Cure songs, but most of them do...right now its "Homesick"....
I know i havent said a single word about the card...but i sometimes i just get inspired in a different way...hopefully this wont be my first and last Cyprus card, so ill get to tell you something more about it in the future....