Everybody in Cyprus Has Solar Power, but not Wireless

Blogging every day is what I shoot for on my journeys, but it isn’t as easy as it sounds. We stayed at a five-star hotel with the swankiest ocean view rooms and marble everything, but the only link to my beloved ‘Net was one slow dial up computer with a 15-minute limit. Now we’ve moved on to Le Meridian, an even swankier place where the owner of the hotel is having his son’s wedding tonight for 1500 guests. Hey they even invited us journalists to join the party.

Cyprus continues to impress, with its lush green hills, sea views, and rustic country lanes. Yesterday we drove by Land Rover over rough hillside roads, passing banana trees, groves of almonds, lemons and oranges, and finally ended up at the Baths of Aphrodite. It is kind of charming to see how these Cypriots have physical spaces named for mythical gods, but they double as beautiful spots in nature, and I guess we can go along with the fantasy.

The other most prevalent thing we see here are rooftop solar panels and ubiquitous white tanks, on every roof there is that tank that looks like a lifeboat on a ship. Solar power takes care of just about all of the water heating here–it was imported from Israel, and with the prices of oil and gas this seems like a pretty good investment opportunity for the U.S.