GREETINGS! (4) From "xxxxx" in TRNC..!

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
23/06/2011 21:36

You most probably have seen the place where I took this picture today - most expats see the place from the main road between Lapta and Karşiyaka... But have you ever been there? What drama happened there in 1974 and in the centuries before? Another intriguing building and area...

Anyway, this is meant to say Good Morning! Look around you in TRNC and enjoy her beauty and interesting places!

▶ [ http://is.gd/prKIvP/keywords_karsiyaka_sinai_monastery ]

newlad



Joined: 02/03/2008
Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
23/06/2011 21:48

Wonderful view Hans,so envious,



Paul.

Clarissa2


Joined: 12/06/2009
Posts: 1476

Message Posted:
24/06/2011 01:24

Re : Msg 1,

"In an island of bitter lemons

Where the moon's cool fevers burn

From the dark globes of the fruit,



And the dry grass underfoot

Tortures memory and revises

Habits half a lifetime dead



Better leave the rest unsaid,

Beauty, darkness, vehemence

Let the old sea-nurses keep



Their memorials of sleep

And the Greek sea's curly head

Keep its calms like tears unshed



Keep its calms like tears unshed. "

Clarissa2


Joined: 12/06/2009
Posts: 1476

Message Posted:
02/07/2011 13:49

Re: Msg 1,

On The Sea

By John Keats

It keeps eternal whisperings around

Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell

Gluts twice ten thousand caverns, till the spell

Of Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound.

Often 'tis in such gentle temper found,

That scarcely will the very smallest shell

Be moved for days from where it sometime fell,

When last the winds of heaven were unbound.

O ye! who have your eyeballs vexed and tired,

Feast them upon the wideness of the Sea;

O ye! whose ears are dinn'd with uproar rude,

Or fed too much with cloying melody, --

Sit ye near some old cavern's mouth, and brood

Until ye start, as if the sea-nymphs quired!

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
02/07/2011 21:07

Messages 3&4. Are you trying to say that the picture is THE "SINAI MONASTERY"..! )

suehowlittle


Joined: 31/10/2010
Posts: 1202

Message Posted:
03/07/2011 13:17

This is a super walk but not at this time of year!



Lovely place - wish I knew it's history though.



Does anyone know even how old it all is?

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
03/07/2011 13:25

@ msg 6, suehowlittle: I have compiled a story from old sources, but I'm too busy at the moment to finish it. Some patience, please... I'll add the story to the web page mentioned in msg 1.