If the tide is up there's little place left to plonk your deck chair without being on the pebbles by the restaurants. For the last 2 summers' we've gone further away from the restaurants (before you get to them, not too far from the gate to the riding stables on the sea road) but even this late in the season, it's not always easy to get anywhere on the sand....
So, we've been visiting Ladies Mile Beach by Akrotiri and as long as it's not too windy a day - the beach is lovely. It's all sand, no pebbles and fabulously clear, shallow seas to walk into. There are kids inflatables and slides at a number of the restaurants along the beach and this year, we've been going at the side of the Oceania Club Bar.
It's a great place for spotting the Trooper as it comes and goes, as well as the helicopters going through their practice runs. The other week, we were treated to the sight and sound of 2 of the tornados taking off as we drove through the outskirts of the RAF base as we passed alongside of the salt lake
A few photos from our recent trips (some from my camera and others by phone):
A spot of kayaking - my first and last time (I ended up in hospital the weekend afterwards and I lay all the blame on this "sport")
Helicopter spotting over the salt lake behind the beach:
Ladies Mile Beach, Akrotiri peninsula
Oceania Club Bar and beachfront
This is the part we go to, between the beach club and the boat launch area:
This is what we're used to seeing at Curium Beach:
This is now the reality:
I rather think we got spoiled by this on our recent visit back to UK:
