Welcome to Paphos

One final look from the heights no bird can ever reach, and we begin descending toward island of Cyprus.



We landed in the Paphos airport which is close to the Pathos city (or Pafos, as they name themselves). A special thing about this airport is its location - by the coastline, so the sea is the first one to meet you on the land of Cyprus.



Of course, I couldn't miss an oportunity to take a photo of any aircraft I met on my way.



And these were helicopters parked by the sea-side. A beautiful place for a parking lot, isn't it?



The Paphos airport is a very small one, so planes should move carefully, giving way to each other. One airplane stopped for few minutes on its way to the parking spot so this one in the picture would take off.



And the first thing you see after you closed doors of the airport is the sea! Here is the point where vacation suddenly turns real, and you start believing it possible to get away from work and cold weather.

To start with

Like many other trips, this one began in the airport where I was waiting for the boarding. The flight was to depart from Domodedovo which is, perhaps, the largest and the most modern airport in Moscow area (and, probably, in Russua itself).

So I was sitting in the coffee-shop, sipping cappuccino and watching airplanes taking off and landing. Then, finally, I was invited to the gate and taken to our plane parked on a runway.



I like travelling in general and am fond of flying so any time I get a chance I try to take a seat by window so I could miss nothing. This time a good luck was on my side so I took plenty of pictures looking downward.



There was a little bit of clouds and a lot of sunlight. We also passed over numerous rivers, lake and, probably, seas but I have no idea what they were.



The crew didn't share with passengers any information regarding out route but considering the neatness of those patch-like plots this photo was definitely taken beyond Russian borders.
What I like the best is the shadows of clouds on the ground. Aren't they amazing?



And mountains, they look like toys when you watch them from the height where no bird can rise.


The quality is worse than I expected but I like that curling road running through the hills. I'd like to drive there sometime, even though I don't know where to find this place.


More photos coming soon...