Is it wise to ditch your cleansing routine?
By Katie Wright
While other celebrities are busy launching their own beauty brands and showing off their multi-step routines on social media, Cameron Diaz has revealed her approach to skincare ...
From sustainability to statement chokers: top jewellery trends
By Prudence Wade
A new season means fresh jewellery trends to get excited about. Much like the rest of fashion, everything to do with the Noughties is back with a ...
Two car accessories to protect your car in Spring
The spring season has its ups and downs. On the one hand, you have gradually warmer weather, and that feeling of summer getting closer. But at the same time, you ...
Taking being happy seriously
Today is International Day of Happiness. But how has our happiness changed over two years of the pandemic asks ALIX NORMAN. And what can we do to be happier?
Happiness ...
A minute with Elsie Hadjipavli Herbal skincare formulator, herbalist
Where do you live?
Kalavasos with Zenonas (partner) Narou (dog) and Smol (cat)
What did you have for breakfast?
Vegetable soup with a poached egg
Describe your perfect day
With ...
Don’t be put off by the idea of fermented food and drink
By Prudence Wade
On face value, fermented food doesn’t sound all that appealing – after all, you’re essentially leaving things to ‘go off’ before they’re ready to eat.
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What’s Eaten Where: O’Higgins
Despite the incredibly Irish name, the O’Higgins Region is about as far as you can get from the Emerald Isle. In fact, its full name is actually ‘Región ...
Watery wonderlands: where to explore the best wetlands
By Danielle Desouza
Wetlands are watery wonders. Going by a host of names – such as swamps, marshes, bogs, fens and mires – 40 per cent of the world’s animals and plants ...
There’s more than lace in Lefkara
The drive, as you turn off from the Nicosia Limassol highway to Ktima Dafermou is not long. As you climb up, the Ktima Dafermo winery suddenly appears on your right. ...
Restaurant review: Stou Oresti, Nicosia
After a short hiatus and a temporary love affair with brunch places – which might come back during Cyprus’ short but amazing spring – I returned to the island’s queen of ...
Reading, it’s good for your wellbeing too
By Katie Wright
From fast-paced thrillers and murder mysteries to fascinating memoirs and dragon-filled fantasy novels, books can bring us immense pleasure.
There’s something particularly powerful about the way ...
Slam poet looks for love in the midst of disability
In a contender for the world title, THEO PANAYIDES meets a man looking for love who has found peace in poetry
Argyris Loizou sits in his small first-floor flat off ...
The biggest spring beauty trends: from Y2K hair to grunge glam
By Katie Wright
The spring/summer fashion season is upon us, and while it might not be warm enough to bust out the shorts and sandals yet, it’s fun ...
Swimming to support vulnerable groups
One local resident has set himself the challenge of swimming around much of the island to raise awareness of the environmental cost of refugees, and more. MELISSA HEKKERS meets him
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Are you ready for the return of the micro mini skirt?
By Katie Wright
Attention, fashion fans, this is not a drill: the mini skirt is back. And when we say mini we mean really mini.
After countless seasons in which ...
A walk in nature improved
Free to play and kind to the environment, disc golf is rapidly gaining in popularity. ALIX NORMAN speaks to the professional who hopes to bring this exciting new sport to ...
Nissan’s LEAF 2022 glowing with sharp design and advanced tech
With LEAF 2022, Nissan is bringing a fresh glow to the world’s first mass-market electric vehicle, with the iconic model offering more eye-catching style and innovative technology.
LEAF 2022 enjoys a ...
What Is a parenting plan? How do parenting plans work in Texas?
Required parenting plans and custody agreements
If you live in the state of Texas, have children, and are in the process of divorce, you need to know that you and ...
A minute with Renay Roussou Artist, hairdresser
Where do you live?
In the middle of nowhere with my parents and three dogs, hopefully moving to Limassol city centre soon.
What did you have for breakfast?
Nothing, I ...
Jamaican food more than just jerk chicken
By Prudence Wade
Shaun and Craig McAnuff – the brothers behind food sensation Original Flava, with nearly 160k followers on Instagram – admit vegan dishes weren’t a huge part of their ...
Making art accessible to all
Socialising while drawing is the attraction of the Cyprus version of an international movement that is gaining ground. Alix Norman finds out more
Urban Sketchers is a global community that’...
What’s Eaten Where: Tajikistan
Tajikistan is the smallest of Central Asia’s ‘stans’: just 142,550 kilometres square. Its roughly nine million residents are also the poorest in the region.
Once, the region was prosperous – lying ...
The man who makes models
Alix Norman talks to the founder of Cyprus’ longest-running modelling agency, and finds out what it takes to be a model in this ever-changing industry
Cyprus’ modelling industry is hardly ...
Sky-high volcanoes, singing mountains and star-studded skies: Chile’s Atacama Desert
By Sarah Marshall
A blinding-white plateau marbled with rust-red rivers and fringed by volcanoes pointier than a newly sharpened pencil, Laguna Tebenquiche could easily pass for the beginning of time.
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