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The Master’s Trip to Cyprus
Venetia Howes and David Pearson
May 2018 Past Masters

The Marketors are famous for their Masters’ overseas trips and 2018 was no exception.
Richard Christou and his wife Tasoulla have family links with Cyprus and chose to entertain
us there. Cyprus is about as far as you can go and still be in Europe and, since we were
at the far eastern end of the Mediterranean, we enjoyed excellent weather. Cyprus was
famous as a source of copper with the highest purity in the world and it is thought that
copper was named after the island rather than the other way round. Famous visitors have
included Cicero, St Paul, Richard the Lionheart and now the Marketors.

Cyprus is also famous for its ancient
heritage, with some of the oldest
archaeological sites in the world,
and we visited several of these
including three UNESCO World
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visited was Paphos. And, after
touring various locations, including
astoundingly natural Roman mosaics
and St Paul’s Pillar where St Paul was
reputedly lashed 39 times by the
Romans, we repaired to a restaurant
by the harbour. It turned out that this
restaurant had a large screen
showing the Royal Wedding, thus
frustrating those of us who had
wanted to avoid it.
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A second World Heritage site
comprises the Greek Orthodox includes a remarkable fresco Food and drink were of course a
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all of which feature amazing frescos. baby Jesus. On the way we stopped Cypriots like to demonstrate their
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so called
because a A third World Heritage site is one of
second the oldest Stone Age sites dating
roof was back to 9,000 years BC. Its civilisation
built over lasted 5,000 years which somehow
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protect the the second millennium in the shade.
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Monte Christou. which the oxygen away from the wine.
dinner table.

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