Sunday 23rd June Omodos

Omodos today for a 13km, including a 1km extension to a Byzantine church on top of a hill. While the walk notes are correct in that this looks like a Byzantine shed from the outside, it is in fact open and there are some stunning wall paintings inside.

A small shrine by the side of a road.

Inside the back of the shrine.

Lots of lizards again today. different views across vineyards, olives and almonds.

How do these young vines, planted in chalk, survive?

Wide variety of strange plants, quite a few of which have spines, or thorns or some other sharp protuberance, or even photosensitive sap that will deliver 3rd degree burns to unprotected skin (the tall yellow flowered umbellifer of wild parsnip).

On the outskirts of Omodos.

Being on holiday, or perhaps just walking, gives me time to think about all manner of things and I inevitably come up with the same goals, which I must act on (although I think I came up with the same idea last year and never got around to it):

• Identify requirements to run MCT VMs
• Get server for home that meets those requirements
• Build server environment, download VMs for SharePoint, Project Server etc
• Use it for CPD
• Make sure it can run photo management software for when I get DSLR.