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All the Same are having orange-and-pomegranate juice at Hoi Polloi in north Nicosia when a 200-lira note (about €6) appears on the cobbled street beside them. Obviously it doesn’t just ‘...

“If I don’t leave Cyprus at least once a year, I go insane! Even paradise palls after a while.” This is island fever. Sometimes known as ‘rock fever’, the ...

Where do you live?At the moment I live on my own. In the city of Nicosia. What did you have for breakfast?Gluten-free porridge oats, peanut butter and a ...

As the title suggests, MH370: The Plane That Disappeared promises to delve into the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which vanished in 2014. However, this mini-docu series is as much about ...

Sooner or later, the streets of your youth – so lively and lush and cool – sit still on a gallery wall. Former haunts seem dozy and distant in their polite frames, ...

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Nicosia’s food scene is growing. Slowly and perhaps rather unilaterally – most new restaurants, in fact, still pander to ...

From last Thursday to Sunday, the city of Larnaca has been host to the 1st Blue Regatta Kimon, an event that has generated buzz among young sailing enthusiasts and their ...

Most of us tend to think other people are basically having sex left, right and centre. But when it comes to how often your friends have sex, you’re probably ...

Deadpool & Wolverine opens this week and is projected to not only be the biggest commercial success of the summer (expected to make over $165 million on opening weekend, which will ...

Festival season is upon us and many in Cyprus will be gearing up to head to one of the events that dominate our summer evenings. Yet as I talk to ...

Few of us are doing what we wanted to as children, especially in Cyprus. The passions we had when we were kids rarely translate into a sustainable job. And, on ...

Where do you live?I live in a small village named Anafotida, which is 15 minutes away from the centre of Larnaca with my parents & my little brother! What did ...

One squirrel has the caloric equivalent of two pizza slices. Fish-head soup is better with lingonberries. The semi-digested contents of a rabbit’s entrails are nutritious and delicious. Fun facts ...

2024 marks 50 years since the Turkish invasion, and throughout the year several events and cultural performances remember that harrowing summer of 1974 that changed the course of history for the island and ...

Sometimes, deciding which restaurant to review can be challenging, whilst on other occasions, it can be an easy, straightforward decision. That is what happened this week on one of our ...

The air in Nicosia is thick with history and memory, the scars of past conflict visible in the divided cityscape. The city, the last divided capital in Europe, is the ...

You swallow eight spiders a year in your sleep. Cracking your knuckles causes arthritis. Your fingernails grow after you die. We all grew up knowing these things; knowing that elephants ...

With Beverly Hills Cop 4 being a huge success for Netflix, it seems the cynics were right: Hollywood is out of ideas. Sequels, reboots, remakes and spin-offs are all the craze, ...

Aliki Hadjigeorgiou met Loukia (in a church, quite randomly) about 12 years ago, shortly after the publication of her first book. Aliki and Loukia – even their names are near-mirror-images of each ...

This year alone, nearly four million people have already flown into Cyprus! Of our two international airports, Paphos and Larnaca, the latter sees by far the most arrivals: 8,073,932 flew into ...

Where do you live?After 13 years living in Germany, me and my partner Joana moved back home during Covid. We live in Paphos, Cyprus in a small village up on ...

In the early 1990s, Italy was rocked by a sweeping judicial campaign aimed at cleaning up the pervasive corruption within its political system. The period, known as Tangentopoli or Bribesville, ...

China is the birthplace of tea, and the people there have a long history of drinking the brew dating back to antiquity. It has become a cornerstone of Chinese culture; ...

By Andrea Kouyiali Nothing says Limassol more than a restaurant next to the beach. Sunbeds and umbrellas in full for those who want to enjoy a cocktail by the waves, ...