The Last Divided Capital In Europe

We took some visitors to Nicosia the other day and you would think that after seeing the Green Line (the line that devides the walled city of Nicosia) about a hundred times, you would have become a bit hardened to all the bloodshed that Cyprus saw years ago. 

But the pain is still visible in the shattered glass and sandbagged houses.

Like most wars this one is not an easy one to forget. But unlike some others, for those of us who did not witness it, this one is an easy one to relive. The houses are deserted and have been left as they were that day in 1974; you can still see the shrapnel marks and the broken windows.