Cyprus-London and back again

I went to pick Cam up from UK for her first visit with us here.  Above is a picture of her at the terminal at Luton on the dreary, rainy, 27th.  Four and a bit hours later and things were a tad bit different.  Apart from getting the chair that doesn’t recline, the journey was way better than the one out from Larnaca 24 hours previously.  I am sure I won’t be flying with Monarch again any time soon, unless there are no other choices.  On landing in Paphos, it was a balmy 30 something degrees of typical Cypriot stickiness.  That evening about 6pm we were all in the warm Mediterranean happy, but in my case knackered!

Alice

Last night (12th) was the Alice Cooper concert in Limassol – what a cracker!  Mano procured the tickets and doors opened at 1900.  We arrived about 1930 and found a beer and a place at front centre.  Alice is famous for his ‘shock rock’ shows, full of humour horror, executions, fake blood and all sorts of theatricals and tonight was no exception.  They played all the classics, like School’s out, Poison, Halo, No more Mr. nice guy and many more.  Mano and I were deep in the ‘mosh pit’, with all the great sweaty unwashed and needless to say we were very sweaty too by the end of it all, but it was brilliant from start to finish.  My favourite part would have to be when Alice drives a stake through the heart of a mock baby vampire and is then placed in a straight jacket and frogmarched up the scaffold to be hung.  the baby’s mother, played by Cooper’s real life daughter Callico Cooper, throws the lever to open the trap door and drop him!  I’d definitely go see AC perform again given half a chance!  here are a couple of pictures from the event: 

Photos by Mano

Below are some photos by Mike G.K.  You can see more of his work by following this link.  Thanks to Mike for kind permission!