My guesstimate was quite accurate. we pulled in around 10 am. This was 10 am local time, meaning I had to adjust my clock for the fourth time, as Nothern Cyprus has the same time zone as EU-Cyprus, with the difference to home being just one hour.

The first views of Cyprus were promising, it looked very pretty, a town with a huge fort, behind it nice mountains.

I love the blue sea...

I am not sure how to tell you the disappointment that I (and I believe, we both) felt when seeing the place of our accommodation: We had been riding through smaller villages and scarcely inhabited towns - and when it was just a few kilometers left to our destination, we spotted a bunch of unattractive high-rise buildings. I am rather agnostic, but I started praying to all the gods that this not be our place, but they did not listen. We got to a place I (and as I found out, also Ella) would have never entered. Worse, multiple streets within and outside of this complex were under construction, so we were forced to make a huge detour.

The tenant of my apartment was a lady from...roll drums...Russia, the silver lining was that the stay was not too expensive, €25 per night and €30 for final cleaning, if I recall correctly. The apartment itself was quite nice, but I will now paste in my review of the so-.called "Caesar Resort" - feel free to skip.

"I never understood people spending their time laying next to pools -at the sea-side. These pools are probably the only "feauture" of otherwise high-rise buildings located 1 km from the sea.There are about 40 of these nondescript buildings, boasting Roman names, each pretty much a misnormer - in reality, the property is dusty, smells of sewage and there is construction going on everywhere. Some gates cannot be accessed, one has to make huge detours. Right in front of my ground-floor apartment, workers start at 7 am and have loud machinery - and they sit right in front of my window when taking a rest.

The beach, just a 15-minute walk away, has no pedestrian connection, to be precise, you either have to run access a 2-by-2 lane highway or go on dirty, flooded roads to a tunnel further up the road.

The staff is anything but friendly, you are treated more like a brick in the wall, kind of "the next one, please". I wanted to go to the gym, but was turned away at this supposedly 5-star resort, as I did not have a towel with me and them not giving me one.

Not sure why a Caesars Resort would have a "Cafe de Paris" in the middle of it (BTW, there is nothing Roman, neither anything Parisian about this place...), but the prices are outrageous. One coffee is €6, one rather bland salad €11. Based on these prices, I avoided the "fine-dining" restaurants.

So if you do like laying next to a pool the entire day at the base of high-rise buildings, this place might suit you - but if you have just a bit of sense of aesthetics and have no desire to be treated like in "kettle-class", I would advise you to avoid this place.

One positive thing is that the apartment itself is spacious and relatively well-equipped... but even here are stupid things: e.g. there are no reading lights above the bed and if you want to turn off the bedroom lights, you have to get up and use the switch in the living room..."

OK, I think you got the message, I was not all too happy with the accommodation.

Much happier was I witht the sea - ignoring the ugly path that connected the hotel to the shore, I really enjoyed swimming in the water - which was not cold at all, it was around 21 degrees or so - perfect! The photos below were all done at the shore close to the accommodation.

Well, it was with mixed feelings that this day has ended - it was the final destination of a long trip, driving 1,200 kilometers, taking a ferry, then driving hundred more - and now we were in a smaller town - however, next to a very likeable sea...sweet and sour, is a good explanation...