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One in five Cyprus residents were born abroad, according to a new survey. Many of those are from the UK. What brings them all to Cyprus, asks Alix Norman According ...

Where do you live? I live in Nicosia, alone with my books, my paints and my art works. What did you have for breakfast? Breakfast for me means a morning ...

First things first: True Detective spans four seasons and I’ve only managed to watch the first one so far. No matter how great or not the first instalment is (...

By Sarah Coyne As the summer kicks in, it is time to return to our favourite restaurants suited to sunnier days. One such restaurant is the family-owned Yialos Tavern by ...

A non-profit organisation in New York is dedicated to telling the experience of Greeks and Cypriots who moved there discovers PAUL LAMBIS Since its inception, the Hellenic American Project (HAP) ...

In a bicommunalist and daughter of a political giant, AGNIESZKA RAKOCZY finds a woman with an international upbringing who wishes those on the island would learn to listen to each ...

The good, the bad and the ugly of travel. But mostly the picturesque. As Cyprus welcomes tourists from around the world ELENI PHILIPPOU meets some of those going in the ...

At the age of 72, one woman has cycled from Sweden to Cyprus. But now she needs to get home. ALIX NORMAN finds out what was behind the epic journey “Do ...

CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES picks four nature documentaries that will blow your mind Last week Netflix dropped Chimp Empire, a four-episode documentary about chimps in the African forest of Ngogo. The streaming ...

An upcoming play in English features stripping, silk undies, and stacks of suggestion. But, asks Alix Norman, will we get to see any sex? A few years ago, a scientific ...

A comic and thought-provoking tale, caught in between two worlds, is coming to Limassol next month. Following its staging at the Athens Epidaurus Festival in 2021 in the framework of the 1821 ...

Where do you live? In Larnaca; the creative heart of Cyprus What did you have for breakfast? Frappé, black, no sugar, iced. Describe your perfect day Sunshine, friends laughing telling ...

Picture this: you spend the majority of your childhood jumping from hotel to hotel, living in luxurious suites all around the world, with no homework to worry about. Sounds like ...

Cravings are difficult to explain. They hit you suddenly and you have no choice but to either resist or give in to them and find a way to placate your ...

In a woman who burrows into strangers’ subconscious, THEO PANAYIDES finds a practitioner who likes calm, a positive mindset coach who has also been through some pretty bad times herself ...

By Michelle de Souza British comedy Romantic Getaway recently dropped on streaming service Binge and sees Katherine Ryan and Romesh Ranganathan as Alison and Deacon, a couple desperate for a ...

The island’s favourite sport and its troubled past are inextricably linked finds ALIX NORMAN, speaking to the co-curator of an exhibition that showcases football in Cyprus It’s a ...

With all the negativity in the world these days, feel-good series are the rise CONTANTINOS PSILLIDES has some suggestions to lift the mood Schmigadoon! (Apple TV+) Schmigadoon! tells the story ...

As part of NiMAC’s ongoing exhibition ‘we can only begin to notice’, which presents non-fiction films by female creators from Cyprus and the Cypriot diaspora, comes a film screening ...

Over the last 70 years, Cyprus’ birth rate has plummeted. Alix Norman asks those who grew up in the 1950s what it was like to be surrounded by crowds of children ...

Where do you live? I live in Nicosia. What did you have for breakfast? I ate some fruit, yoghurt, and honey Describe your perfect day The perfect day starts with ...

The Korean show Tomorrow was an emotional roller-coaster ride, dealing with suicide and a team of grim reapers, called the Risk Management Team, that act as guardians trying to convince ...

In the cool of the mountain air, one village offers a glimpse of the island’s mediaeval past says PAUL LAMBIS It may be one of Cyprus’ 20 highest villages and ...

As we stepped inside the dimly-lit, wood-laden interior of the renovated, stone-built, erstwhile traditional Cypriot house that is the Cicchetteria, I thought of how fitting it was to be inside ...