How is it that you can park your car on a quiet residential street, on a section of road that isn’t causing any obstruction, isn’t on a corner and is not on any form of yellow line and there are no signs telling you not to park, that you STILL receive a parking fine? Not […]
Cypriots don’t like winter. We hate the cold weather, the rain and the wind. We were born to be brown, to bask in the golden sunshine that belsses the Cypriot shorelines. As soon as we even get a sniff that winter is here, the heaters come out, the jumpers and scarfs get thrown on and […]
Being an expat I have experienced Christmas and New Year the Cypriot Way three years in a row now. The first Christmas I spent here was in 2008. It consisted of my dad’s family squashed round a table with mountains of food overflowing on the table. Most of it meat. Lamb souvla, chicken souvla, boiled chicken, […]
Cypriot people have difficulty keeping the time. I first discovered this when I was a little girl – my mum and dad would constantly argue about what time to leave the house to arrive at an event we had been invited to. My dad would hold the invitation in his hand, wave it frantically about […]
Since the smoking ban, my local bank is not the same. I missed the teller drinking a frappe with one hand, his mobile phone under his ear and a burning fag in the other hand asking me to come over so he could ‘serve’ me! I smiled every time wishing this scene could happen in […]
A lady promoting tourism in Cyprus at Larnaca airport, told my mum on her way back to the UK that public transport in Cyprus is now fantastic! It’s efficient and cheap. I am fortunate enough to have a car and don’t need to use the public transport here but I’ve always seen it as very archaic […]
It seems like the main requirement to operate a moving vehicle in Cyprus are : a) ignore everyone else on the road and b) pretty much do as you please. We have to also add in c) stopping where you like (with no indication of course – other drivers should know what you’re going to […]
It is with great pride that I welcome yet another new section to our growing site. This time called “The Cypriot Way”. This guest column is the opinions of Maria, who moved to sunny Cyprus from Norf Lundun, on some of the strange things we do on this island without even noticing it. The articles […]