Philip says: "The whole thing involved some miles driven and some leg work but it was fun.

You will recognise straight away the Curium Palace Hotel. I have included some pics of the main building the bar and pool area. There have been some changes made e.g behind the bar."

ROAD ALONGSIDE CURIUM PALACE

"... the road by the side of the hotel where Helene picked up Collier in her Alfa."

"... the police station in Kouklia village. This building has not been altered at all I don't think and still has green wooden doors, the ones Collier banged on at the crack of dawn one morning. The building is surrounded by a wire fence which makes it hard to get a good angle for a good picture."

"... the Efraim taverna in Kouklia village square. The owner's daughter told me this was then the village coffee shop and filming was done outside. So this could have been where inspector Dimas insisted that before he did anything else he wanted his morning cup of coffee. It is certainly a nice place to sit and have a cold beer...

... and a picture of the church directly opposite the Efraim taverna - Collier walks past this church on his way to the police station."

"... the bridge at Trimiklini on the way to Troodos, if I have got the right one. It was a devil to find, you cannot see it from the road: it is completely overgrown and obscured by trees. The width of the bridge seems about right. The walls at the top of the bridge come to a point and the arches beneath the bridge are also pointed at the top not sure about the length of the bridge though. Again it is very hard to get a good angle to get a good shot."

"If you take the main road from Paphos harbour up to Paphos old town near the top of the hill on the right is the main post office. To the left of this building is a street if you walk up this street Collier's house is on the right about half way up. At the end of the street, facing you, is the front of Ayios Kendeas church (see below).

The bottom steps that once curved round to join the pavement have been removed and new ones put in place that go straight up. At the top of the steps on the right is the arched doorway but unfortunately the ornate doors have also been removed from their hinges. I was a bit disappointed not to find the house as it was during filming although all the inside scenes would have been done in the studio I think."

"... if you stood on the balcony of Collier's house, directly opposite you would see the shoe repair shop where the old man was seen sitting on the steps. Sadly the old man died in 2008 and the shop has not been used since.
Looking in the other direction towards Ayios Kendeas church (below) you can see the steps where the old lady in black stood and waved to Collier when he first came to the house."

"... Ayios Kendeas church very close to Barry Collier's house features in the background quite a lot. The house and church can be found behind the post office in Paphos old town."

"... this is where Helene brought Collier as part of her plan of seduction. And where Preece had his own plans for Collier."

"... A few pictures of the amphitheatre at Courion where Hellman offered Collier a million dollars for the eyes of love sapphires."

"... Courion is also the site of the archways where the production team placed the statues of the Gods. They might even have shot both scenes on the same day to save time. It is quite a large site I am surprised they did not use more of it. You have the amphitheatre and some fine mosaics and quite a substantial Roman town. The archways form only a small part of it and are part of an early christian basilica. However they got it right when Dimas takes Collier to the airport. Paphos airport did not exist then so you would use Larnaca airport as Collier did when he arrived in Cyprus. Also the motorway did not exist so you would take the old road from Paphos to Larnaca which would take you right past the Courion site. So Dimas was right when he said 'it is on our way'. "

THE ARCHWAYS

Amusingly Agis Paikos tells me that although the statues of the three Gods, which featured in the last episode, were just BBC props - "... strangely enough they were featured at the time on some postcards passing as actual ruins!"

(Phil's friend) Robert Montgomery visited the monastery at Mesapotamos "(and had more luck than I did). Bob says there is one Abbot, seven fathers and several novices living at the monastery now. One of the more friendly monks told him that the monastery had been used as a hotel at one point in its life, after that it was used as an army camp, (whether that was pre or post Aphrodite is not certain).

The father was very interested to hear that the monastery had once been used in a television series and had no knowledge of it. "

"... I think I might have solved a mystery that has been puzzling me for a long time. Where is the restaurant where Martin Preece took David Collier for a meal shortly after his arrival in Paphos? ... there is a high probability that it is the Windmill restaurant which first opened in 1977. I took some pictures to show Chris, the owner, and he drew my attention to the two buildings across the road.

The Windmill itself has changed over the years but I have seen some older pictures and it does more closely resemble the restaurant in Aphrodite. (Incidentally the Cypriot actor Costas Demetriou, who plays "Antonis" in The Aphrodite Inheritance, is Chris`s cousin. Once he was in a lot of comedy shows, he is now a producer and his son is himself a well known actor in Greece.)"

" In one the final scenes of the Aphrodite inheritance David Collier is seen in the street shaking hands with the lawyer with whom he has left power of attorney over his dead brother's estate. In the novelisation Collier calls the lawyer by name "Mr Michaelides". In the TV series you can just about make out the name on the sign outside of the office.

Well the office is in fact a real one, which seems to have moved just around the corner, about a ten second walk away. With a slightly newer sign over the door, Michael Michaelides advocate."

"Morrison runs to catch the old Bedford village bus in a bid to escape Martin Preece`s second attempt to kill him. The bus deposits Morrison in the picturesque village of Omodhos where Morrison has to continue running ... for his life."

The building is directly opposite the Omodhos church and might have been or still is dormitories, but I`m only guessing.

Looking at Peter Chapman's production pictures, I am pretty sure the picture with Roy Caney setting up a tracking shot is the same building."

Phil Clarke had tried for years to find the abandoned village where Helene gives David Collier the briefcase containing 50,000 in Swiss francs in episode one, but it always eluded him. Website visitor, and MJB enthusiast, Chris Williams then took up the challenge and after four months of dedicated research, many emails, contacts, and false leads, Chris finally honed in on the village of old Korfi which was abandoned in 1969, and the Church of Pagagia Chrisokorfitissa in the Limassol district.

The Church had been renovated and the buildings were all but gone, but Chris compared screenshots from the series with landmarks, background features, and interior shots. It confirmed that this was indeed the location. He'd found it!

Chris sent all the information to Phil who took the contemporary photo's on his latest trip to Cyprus. As evidenced by the shots in the right hand column, Phil reports that "the village is only a shadow of it`s former self even since 1979".

Congratulations to Chris and we look forward to Phil's next discovery.