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By Karen Taylor Cyprus has long been recognised as a crossroads of civilisations, located as it is between Asia, Europe and the Middle East. In much the same way, the ...

By Christina Michailidis Wellness-focused travel has been gaining real momentum, both globally and in Cyprus. Both visitors and locals are looking for ways to reconnect with nature and take a ...

Shooting a television series is a stressful job. In the TV and film world, there are countless moving parts that must come together to make everything work. If one person ...

It’s a normal day for real estate agent Sheila Hammond until she vomits out gallons of goo and a smallish red ball while showing a house to potential buyers ...

Where do you live and with whom?I live in Nicosia with my wife, 13-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter. What did you have for breakfast?A glass of water and ...

According to the Oxford dictionary, Mystes is the one initiated in a mystery, as in the Dionysian mysteries. The mysteries were celebrated throughout ancient Greece, revolving around Dionysus, the god ...

One of the latest places in Paphos offering a touch of culinary theatre is Geppetto restaurant, the adult-only dining space at M-Boutique hotel, which opened just over a year ago. ...

By: Christina Michailidis In Cyprus, the violin is more than an instrument, it is a voice in the island’s cultural history. An instrument that has marked life’s most ...

Barcelona is a city of layers: the imposing Sagrada Familia, Gaudí’s surreal bursts of colour, and streets laid out with geometric precision. Direct flights from Cyprus now make it ...

You can’t really tell over a Zoom call. Only when the angle’s just right, when he inclines his head a certain way, can you make out… something on ...

Where do you live?Home for me is a small paradise in Latsia, near what we call a river – dry most of the year – but in my imagination, it flows ...

With the release of the second season of The Last of Us in April, it is worth revisiting the show that raised video game adaptation standards forever. Set in a ...

This time around, my faithful dining companion and I decided to try a well-established joint that thrives on a clever illusion: dining in as if it were the upper echelons ...

Huge balloons and lights reflecting the history of Larnaca as seen through the eyes of international installation artists will be included in the fast-approaching Larnaca Biennale, which will see the ...

By Christina Michailidis There’s something quietly spectacular about wandering through a market filled with handmade creations – from hand-thrown ceramics and artisan soaps to delicate jewellery, crochet work, small batch ...

It’s the kind of question those old Raj colonels must’ve asked themselves when they first went to India: why is everyone eating chili – which of course makes you ...

Where do you live?I live in Limassol – a place where the sea meets the sun and ideas find space to grow. What did you have for breakfast?Breakfast was ...

Hostage, the new Netflix series, delivers a tense political thriller with a deeply personal edge. The story centres on British prime minister Abigail Dalton (played by Suranne Jones), whose husband ...

The main man at Kalamos Winery, Thanasis Ignatiou has been around wines since his teens in his beloved village of Amargeti in Paphos, and he says, it has been a ...

Arranging dinner in summer is always a little game of back and forth. Somewhere air conditioned? Somewhere by the sea? In the end, the decision was obvious. We wanted the ...

Baked Stuffed Courgette (marrow) A delicious summer dish! Marrows are super healthy, utterly delicious, cheap and we Cypriots love them. If the marrows have a very tough skin, with a ...

Septemberfest With a week of music concerts, street food flavours and beer selections, Septemberfest returns to fill Nicosia’s nights with entertainment. An exciting line-up of acclaimed performers from Greece ...

What have I been doing these past weeks? Who wants to know? Did Johnny Salami put you up to this? Have you been talking to Jimmy the Icepick? What have ...

Between the years of 1927 and 1931, more than 20 archaeological sites on the island were excavated by the Swedish Cyprus Expedition. In this way, Einar Gjerstad, John Lindros, Erik Sjöqvist and ...