Alix Norman

What began on a damp morning in a Neo Chorio kitchen has developed into three varieties of small-run gin that is the taste of the island. ALIX NORMAN settles down ...

We can thank Budapest for the biro and the Rubik’s cube. Budapest is built on a vast labyrinth of caves, which stretch for miles and miles beneath the city. ...

In the world of the theatre, women are still seriously outnumbered by men. Alix Norman meets a group of women hoping to be the fabric of change In 2021, the European ...

Rooted in the divided island of Cyprus, The Book of Cultures was created by two women as a bridge to global acceptance “Raised on a divided island,” says Evi Triantafyllides, “...

Welcome to the Gates of Hell – the name Portuguese sailors once gave Namibia’s western coast. The locals are even more poetic, referring to it as The Land God Made ...

A new arrival to the island is a global authority on everything automotive. And now she’s bringing her expertise to the drivers of the island. Alix Norman finds out ...

A couple hand rearing plants and turning the produce into jams and sauces is about to take things up a notch. ALIX NORMAN gets a taste for something spicy At 2.2 ...

But, according to a new study, it’s also one of the worst places in the world to make money. Alix Norman takes a closer look Roughly 70 million people around ...

Alaska is by far the coldest state in the US (right now, they’re lighting their fires and welcoming the first snowfall of the year!). But among the Lower 48, it’...

By giving hair, people can give cancer patients strength, and also help raise funds for quality wigs finds ALIX NORMAN Pasykaf wants your hair. As much of it is as ...

Massage is over 5,000 years old, so it’s no wonder there are hundreds of different styles in massage incorporating thousands of techniques Type ‘massage Cyprus’ into Google, and you’re ...

The driest non-polar desert in the world, the Atacama is vast and alien: endless red hills and dusty plains. Stretching 1,600 km along the Pacific coast of Chile, temperatures can rocket ...

I put off watching this for years, thinking it was a Star Trek spoof. But in July, having watched and re-watched everything from Voyager to DS9, I gave The Orville ...

August 8 is International Cat Day. ALIX NORMAN celebrates Cyprus’ furriest friends There’s a story that suggests Cyprus was once cat-free. Until, that is, in the 1300s Saint Helen of ...

‘I just want to show what’s there,’ says the photographer of abandoned shops and shabby alleys How many sun/sea/sand pics of Cyprus do you see each day? ...

This is the home of the hillbilly – a term that’s been around since the later 1800s. Today, the term carries derogatory overtones; but it’s still how citizens of ...

A Limassol-based climber has climbed five of the world’s highest mountains. The challenge now is to get to the top of two more summits discovers Alix Norman The Seven ...

The recent World Jigsaw Puzzle Championships saw a sole Cypriot competitor who, despite coming last, had the time of his life finds ALIX NORMAN So often we write about people ...

Washed by the waters of the Indian Ocean, ringed by white sand beaches, and dotted with tropical forest, Mahé is a little nirvana. As part of the Seychelles, Mahé belongs ...

Summer has us all piling down to the beach. And now there is a new sport to enjoy while there discovers ALIX NORMAN “This is the closest a human came ...

A musical duo have come together to make audiences laugh. They are going from strength to strength finds ALIX NORMAN ‘Some doctors like you flat on your back, When they ...

There are British, US and Spanish Virgin Islands. And yes, they’re all named for a virgin – actually, for 11,000 virgins! This little archipelago in the Lesser Antilles was named by ...

Well into my teens, I thought Transylvania was fictitious, somewhere like Gotham or Hogwarts! Located in central Romania, and roughly 11 times bigger than Cyprus, the Transylvanian Plateau is almost completely ...

One band crossed continents to bring the improvisational music of America’s heartland to Cyprus. ALIX NORMAN gets in the swing, and finds local influence on sets Six thousand miles ...