"تقرير عن قبرص." [و‎‎٧] (٢٨/١٣)

There is a certain amount of racing and gymkhana meetings
are held at Nicosia and Larnaca.
The sea bathing from March onwards is a great feature of
English life in Cyprus.
Sailing and boating could be indulged in by any who cared
but there is no club, nor are sailing boats other than the local
fishing boat available for hire or purchase.
6. Communications and Travelling— There are good tarred
roads between all the principal towns and up to the hill resorts,
so that with a car one can travel from end to end of the Island
quickly and easily. Apart from these there are metalled roads
of varying quality leading to the bigger villages.
Hotels in Cyprus have improved very much in recent years, and
at all the large towns and in one or two villages, especially hill
villages, there are hotels which though not luxurious, are mode
rately good. There are also two really good hotels, the Park Hotel
at Platres, and the Dome Hotel at Kyrenia. The latter is much
frequented by English and other tourists in winter and in spring.
In the Troodos hills the chief resorts are Pedhoulas, Prodhromos
and Platres at each of which places there are hotels filled with
Egyptians in the summer. Some senior officials of Government
have houses at Troodos and usually spend the hottest months in
residence there, a fairly good hotel exists there as well as camps in
which accommodation must be booked ahead.
During the hot months some of the English residents in Nicosia
who can do so go either to the hills or to the seaside, but those who
have no children mostly prefer to remain in their own houses, as
do the majority of Government officials who are stationed at
Nicosia.
Hotels are cheap, the tariff being from 7/- to 10/- a day. In
the hills the rates are somewhat higher. The rates in the Troodos
camps are about 10/- for adults and 5/- for children.
Access to Cyprus from Egypt is by the Khedivial mail steamer
which makes the round trip from Alexandria and Port Said to
Cyprus ports weekly. The first class fare is £3-10-0 ; at present
there is no second class and third is very bad indeed.
There is a weekly Italian service to and from Brindisi by
which one can reach London in five days. The Messageries Mari-
times call at Larnaca fortnightly; and passages can be had on
the “Prince” and “Moss” lines of cargo boats to England but
they sail to no regular schedule.
There is no air service to Cyprus at present. The establishment
of an Imperial airport in Cyprus would seem to be a not unlikely
eventuality and if this came about it would make a great difference :
facilities would probably be paid for, among other ways, by
increased cost of living..