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“Last summer our office air conditioning broke! “It was the middle of the worst heatwave; the repairmen were slammed and couldn’t get there for a week. So my boss ...

Where do you live?Limassol What did you have for breakfast?Cereal Describe your perfect dayCreative writing, a walk with my dog, listening to classical music and jazz, watching a ...

Björn works for an unappreciative law firm and his clients are equally ungrateful mafia bosses. As his family life goes down the drain, he can either wave it goodbye ...

On a ridiculously cold, wet, and wintery night in Paphos, it was hard to summon any enthusiasm to leave the warmth of home and go out to eat. However, the ...

Special education teacher by day, football referee by weekends and afternoons. This dual profession is not groundbreaking, but in Cyprus if you are a woman on the football field it ...

There’s a fantastic thread on the r/Cyprus subreddit. ‘What Are Your Hobbies?’ it asks. Some of the answers are hilariously tongue-in-cheek. ‘Dreaming of affordable property, cursing idiots who ...

Do you love jump-scares, gore and blood but also like the odd joke sprinkled in? Is gallows humour your kind of funny? Then look no further than the horror-comedy genre, ...

On my way to the Oleander Institute – actually to Myrsini’s studio in old Nicosia; the institute has no physical office – I spot a grey-haired couple in their golden years ...

Cyprus sleeps more than most! In the UK, people sleep an average of seven hours a night; in the UAE, it’s 6.8 hours. Albania sleeps the most (almost eight hours), ...

What is life after retirement? For Charles Nieuwendyk, the protagonist of Man on the Inside, it develops into an unexpected job as an amateur private investigator. When he answers a ...

The weather continues to shape my culinary choices. Even before we sat down for a meal at Como, a sea-facing restaurant and bar on Limassol’s coast road, I knew ...

With the carnival period just around the corner, the events calendar is filling up as revelers around the island get ready for one of the most hedonistic periods of the ...

Oh to return to the simpler days, when everything was bright and good and the world was still shiny and perfect. There is nothing like the good ol’ days before ...

Today Sofia begins her pilgrimage. Over the next several weeks, she’ll cover 1,200 kilometres: tracing an ancient Japanese path through misty mountains, past weathered shrines, along the edge of the ...

Everywhere in the world, two to three babies out of every 1,000 live births will be born with cerebral palsy, described by the World Health Organisation as a complex motor disorder ...

A few weeks ago, we ran a news article on the worst-rated Cypriot food: shamishi! But who decided shamishi was bloody awful, and how? Why is it universally detested? And, ...

Where do you live?I live in Nicosia with my husband and son. What did you have for breakfast?I enjoy breakfast very much so I try to eat different ...

By Morgan West Light, heartfelt, and brimming with youthful energy and romance, XO, Kitty is perfect for days when you really don’t want to think! Streaming on Netflix and ...

When going out, I usually like to find a cosy taverna, somewhere by the sea or support a local business. However, we can’t always fulfil those criteria and it’...

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and the island’s creatives have put together an exciting list of things to do next weekend. And there is something for ...

In Cyprus, we say that love passes through the stomach. That beauty is a gift from the gods. And that feelings of passion has no logic. But, according to the ...

A phone alarm pings, and Adonis Florides gets up. Excuse me, he says briskly, there’s “something I have to do”. I wonder if he needs to take some pill ...

Where do you live?Nicosia with family What did you have for breakfast?Drink, red fruits, dark chocolate, protein powder, coconut milk Describe your perfect day.Anything under 70-80 calls. ...

In an era where many television dramas follow predictable paths, O Timoros stands out as an emotionally intense and intricately crafted series. Airing on Alpha TV Cyprus, it dives into ...