A Cyprus Christmas

We spent a wonderful week with my former student, Anastasia Manoli, and her husband Savva and their little boy Yiorgos. They were marvelous hosts, welcoming us into their home, taking us to interesting places,



ordering the right food for us to eat at restaurants,


and including us in their family Christmas dinner at Anastasia's parents (notice the Jack Daniels whiskey, though we also discovered the pleasures of Cypriot zivannia and Commandario):


Anastasia and family picked us up at the airport, and after coffee at a nearby cafe she took us to St. Lazurus church:

Lazarus came to Cyprus after Jesus raised him from the dead, and lived another thirty years before dying a second time. He is buried in this church.


We have much more to post of our visit to Cyprus, but have limited access to the internet, in a Naharyia mall cafe in the north of Israel, so we'll end for now.
Happy New Year to all.