Retrospective: Cyprus

About a week after I arrived in Amman, Hisham and I took a trip to Cyprus. We'd been apart for so long that we needed a bit of a vacation--some time to recenter and relax--and, what better place to go than the Cypriot mountains where his family has a house. This trip holds particular significance because it's when Hisham proposed--on October 27, 2009 -- on the balcony off our room. View below.



The green hillsides and quaint villages provided an already much needed respite from the sea of white washed square desert homes in Amman. Cyprus is also wine country and they have an excellent wine tasting national infrastructure - there are seven wine routes throughout the island which you can easily find by following the color-coded road signs. They just made it so easy to enjoy the island. I hope you enjoy the images of the countryside.

Oh, funny story about these first two: one night we were at a cafe by the coast, actually, in the lowest point in Cyprus. It started raining and didn't stop for several hours, flooding the streets, and, our cafe. See below.