Mavi Kosk (Blue Palace)

Ok another moment in Cyprus, which I forgot to write about earlier. My cousins for some reason decided to take me to an escaped gunmen’s house in Cyprus. After travelling for around 2 hours we arrived at the blue palace. This palace cannot be seen from anywhere outside. The palace is safely designed to hide itself within trees and its surroundings.

A half Italian half Greek mafia guy apparently built it in the 1950s. This was great. I was finally inside some mafia’s house, wandering around like a lunatic looking for clues. The palace seemed quite small from the outside but once inside the building it’s quite huge. The rooms are intriguing as there’s a gigantic milk bath smack bang in one of the living rooms. I mean for crying out loud who builds a milk bath in the middle of the living room.

The rooms are all labelled according to colour. The red room for example is the mafia communication room. It’s where they plot their attacks and deal with their stolen money. The most intriguing thing in this room is the framed picture of Virgin Mary. Wherever you walk in the room her eyes, hands and legs face you. This kind of freaked me out at first as I thought someone was watching me behind the painting but then I thought what is this Scooby doo.

The blue room is for the mafia’s boss to entertain his special guests. He has several flings in this room and everything in the room is blue. This room also has a special safety box hidden in the wall. Maybe for his stolen gstrings?

The green room, which strangely enough has red furniture. This room is used for guests in general.

The Pink room – is the mafia’s boss’s room. This room is awesome as it has fantastic views from both sides of the room. A secret tunnel passage is behind his bed. He used this secret passage to escape when the cops came smashing into his house. He was clever enough to escape yet again. Reminds me of Cherry for some reason.

In his master bedroom is a huge makeup mirror. Some say he used to dress up as a woman to escape. Some say it was just him enjoying dressing up as a woman. This would explain the 2 pink robes in his wardrobe he left behind before he escape.

The earthquake room – is a separate room that was built and joined onto the house to protect them from any earthquake. This is quite intriguing as the room is separate from the rest of the house.

The yellow room – has a giant statue on top of a draw. This statue apparently falls over and informs the entire household if there is an earthquake.

There are several other rooms such as the terrace room, tavern room and pool bar room which I wont go into detail with. There are however 2 pools outside. One is a small pond shaped like an evil eye where people make donations. The theory is your wish should come true if you throw a coin in and it lands on heads. Yes we kept throwing coins in but all we got was tails. I think we spent quite a bit of money in that pond.

The pool – This pool was used to entertain guest and the mafia’s boss. The mafia dude would stand on the balcony above the pool sucking on an apple. Finally he would throw the apple into the pool and who ever catches it would have the pleasure of spending the night with him. This didn’t matter if a guy or girl caught it.