One of the first things I did was to walk along the beach wading in the Mediterranean while sipping a coffee frappé.  The frappé is an iced drink kind of similar to a Frappuccino-though not quite as thick and much less sweet.  There are non-coffee based frappé, but the coffee based ones either use Nescafé or espresso.  Another type of coffee drink that is ubiquitous here, that I’ve never seen before elsewhere, is the freddo cappuccino.  Which is like an iced cappuccino but with thick cold foamed cream (almost as thick as whipped cream) on top.  The drink can be severed with or entirely without sugar.

It seems as though everywhere you look in Larnaca is a café. I get the impression that if you visited a different café every day in a month, you likely would not visit them all.

One of the coffee shops I visited most often is better known as a bakery, ΖΟΡΜΠΑΣ (“Zorba’s”). It does have a wide range of pastries, some familiar, others not so much but rather good all the same. (Though you could also get sandwiches, gelato, or any number of other goodies.) This was a regular place to get coffee and pastries prior to heading to the dig site, leaving a shift at the museum, or for no reason in particular.

Chrystyna Banks