Alix Norman

Happy Halloween! And welcome to the world’s most haunted city! According to Condé Nast Traveller, Edinburgh is the spookiest place in the world, simply racked with things that go ...

ALIX NORMAN meets the modern-day witch, the earthy enchantress and the Cyprus Queen of Halloween Halloween has never really taken off on the island. But these three residents all have ...

Spicy yet sweet, tangy but tropical: this exotic fusion cuisine is proving a favourite with island locals Many families in Cyprus enjoy multi-cultural roots. But Pearl Antoniou’s background hot ...

Gamers are going analogue. And across the island, hundreds of people are meeting to enjoy this fascinating, and extremely varied, pastime finds ALIX NORMAN You’ve played Monopoly and chess. ...

While strange foods are eaten around the world, even the most gastronomically adventurous are unlikely to have tried the Cambodian delicacy of fried tarantula! Like many of the world’s ...

Based on art and science, the hurts of the past can be overcome. ALIX NORMAN speaks to a Cyprus expert in neurographic art In the 1940s, art therapy was first ...

The Gates to Hell are located in the midst of the Karakum Desert. Here, out amidst the black dunes where the rain never falls, lies the pit of Darvaza: a ...

Currently on the first leg of his epic trek from Protaras to Paphos via Larnaca and Limassol, George Stylianou is crossing the island with one purpose in mind At the ...

Raising money for and awareness of the work of Pasykaf will see one local man trek 185km from one side of the island to the other in just three days. ...

Ardennes is among the world’s most beautiful battlegrounds: its rolling valleys, meandering rivers, and dense forests once the site of WWII’s most violent clashes. Located mainly in south-east ...

Huge populations of stray animals are a problem around the world. Alix Norman meets the woman behind a new dogumentary that tracks volunteers in the sector to show the depth ...

A group from Limassol recently braved escalating tension, altitude sickness, and lethal gas to get to the top of Asia’s highest peak, Mount Damavand in Iran. ALIX NORMAN finds ...

Little Paris, New Berlin, the City of Joy – the Romanian capital goes by many a name. Over 10 million sightseers visit the city each year, swelling an already substantial population. The ...

Thousands left the island in the 20th century, setting out for new lives in a new country. One well-known poet now asks what happened to those who were left behind ...

Cyprus missed out on the first wave of punk in the 70s and 80s. But now, one local band is pioneering this unusual genre of soft rebellion on the island. ...

This isn’t actually a sea. But nor is it a lake. The Caspian Sea is something else altogether… At almost exactly 40 times the size of Cyprus, the Caspian Sea ...

Posted to Cyprus in the 1950s, one ex-British military officer has drawn from personal experience to write a fictional book based on the island during its troubled times. Alix Norman ...

I LOVE Sister Boniface – both character and show. The former is witty, smart, humble, and a nun; all the things (with one notable exception!) that I’ve always struggled to ...

Combining her love of books and a passion for vintage vehicles, one young woman hopes to bring a new travelling service to the far reaches of the island. ALIX NORMAN ...

Wisconsin is known as ‘America’s Dairyland’. It’s here, in 1881, that the world’s first ice cream sundae was served, and, if the state were a country, it would ...

In a friendship that spans two decades, one Turkish Cypriot and one Greek Cypriot are proving the hard way that every step is a step towards reunification. Alix Norman meets ...

Simple hand-made pots and a love of all things green brought two old friends back together. ALIX NORMAN meets them “We’re not selling pot!” laughs Lorraine. “It’s pots, ...

Patna was the home of Vātsyāyana – the author of the Kama Sutra. Little is known of this monk, other than that he intended the book as more of ...

A woman sitting on the International Olympic Committee plans on taking a bicommunal group of youngsters around the island’s coast next year to promote togetherness through sport. Alix Norman ...