Another fabulous walk and we avoid the rain!

The weather today was a real change from yesterday when it was so hot and muggy - today it was stormy but as Liselotte and I were walking down in the Valley at Akourdaleia I reckoned we should be ok and we were - in fact it was quite warm at times - warm enough for me to take off my dayglo top!!!

As we are still subject to time restrictions we met at the Herb Garden and I adjusted the route slightly so we didn't go up any blind alleys and added a different loop home which turned out to be a much more scenic and less arduous than the one which I had taken with Nicky.  I didn't know it was going to be like that but was glad it was because Liselotte likes a bit of rough road as opposed to tarmac!!!

Liselotte could remember that she had walked some of this route in the past but was more than happy to be walking it again and I was able to point out to her some of the beautiful plants that were growing along the roadside.  So many beautiful orchids and once you can recognise their form you can pick them out immediately.  I would like to think I might be able to find a book on the orchids of Cyprus - I have a book on Cyprus Flora which was Dad's but it doesn't have much about orchids.

This is not my photograph but I was very very excited to catch a glimpse of a fox which ran across our path as we approached the church of Agia Paraskevi - it shot down the ravine and we couldn't see where it went thereafter but I was chuffed because I have only ever seen one at night and a couple which were dead on the side of the road.

Our final little loop took us up to the little church where Welsh Caroline and French Clem got married and then on a tiny path which the walking Girlies had taken on our first walk ever last year!!!  Even though the weather looks iffy we had avoided any rain.

All in all a very nice walk and I shall do much the same with Rachel on Saturday but maybe miss out the first loop and add it at the end just to ring the changes.

The coptic got gradually worse as the day went on so we battened down the hatches and got the house ready for a Farmyard Takeaway which is about the best remedy for a coptic storm.  We were warm and cosy with a lovely meal and a little drop of vino to keep the storm at bay!!