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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 ...

Where do you live?I live with my skating partner Ilia Karankevich in a little Italian city called Egna in Bolzano province. What did you have for breakfast?Eggs, some ...

What happens when the last survivors of a climate-ravaged Earth are confined to a single, endlessly circling train? In Snowpiercer, the post-apocalyptic premise becomes a stage for a chilling social ...

August is always the month when the idea of relocating to live above the humidity line has great appeal. Living at sea level with the humidity means summers are long ...

When Michal Stourac joined the Cyprus homebrewers’ association in 2016 and participated in one of their first brewing competitions, he was a casual brewer who occasionally supplied his family with fresh ...

Goat bells at daybreak and church bells at midnight. Electric cicadas in afternoon sunlight. Breezes that rustle through old olive trees. The whisper of Mediterranean seas. You’ll forgive the ...

Sorry, I am still bitter about Locke and Co. With such a long production cycle, changes are bound to happen. Directors get hired, then fired. Writers come and go. Crew ...

We’re at the Bedrock Café in Ayia Napa, surrounded by Flintstones merch and plastic dinosaurs – but Aeropryme isn’t happy with his coffee. “I wanted an iced coffee with ...