Still in pre-travel mode
I’ve been giving myself and a few other people a headache trying to organise these flights to Cyprus as I now have to be there on Saturday 17th, in a university in Paphos by 5 pm. I’ve had help from all over the place, but the timing is the issue. So far, the easiest I’ve found is with Aegean from Rhodes, via Athens to Larnaca and then a bus down to Paphos. Other routes have been suggested by friends, but they don’t go on the days I need to go. And as for those flight compare sites…
Well, don’t you just hate it when you search around and you find ‘Fly direct from Rhodes to Paphos’ and head to a site, put in the details you want, being flexible on dates, and then they say, ‘no matches to your search?’ There are others that, after bringing up several pop-up boxes, then invite you to search each one on their own, which isn’t really doing the search for you, as advertised. Then you find ‘Yes, we do this trip!’ And you search there and ‘No you don’t! comes screaming out of you. False advertising or what? Good old Aegean are still the most straightforward, with a decent morning flight to Athens an hour’s wait and then an hour or so down to Cyprus. By the way, should you be interested, a taxi from Larnaca to Paphos is quoted at €87.00, which would still be cheaper than some of the ‘fast, low-cost flights’ I’ve found: Rhodes to Athens, Athens to Paphos… via Moscow, duration 13 hours. I don’t think so.
So, I am leaving it for today and will start the search again tomorrow. Meanwhile, the folks back in the yUK are still searching around for me, and I am contacting some travel agents in Rhodes. There’s been a suggestion of taking the boat to Turkey and then a bus down the coast and another ferry across to Cyprus… That would be a fun trip if I had the time and money. Ah well, on with the search.
I know it’s a crucial day in the yUK today and I hope that after today I will feel able to call it the UK again (rather than the yuk it’s become). You know how I feel so I won’t bleat on. But if things go horribly wrong, as I fear they might, I might just not mention the place at all after tomorrow, and I certainly will do all I can to avoid having to set foot in it again, no matter where I am travelling to. Whatever side you are on, just make sure you go and vote for someone.
