Growing up and going on vacation with my family, I remember the most important thing my dad used to pack was food! He didn’t care if he only had 1 pair of shorts, or only 1 shirt, so long as he had an array of Cypriot produce packed into his hand luggage he was OK. Even if […]
In a week of news surrounding the terrible riots in the UK, I wish to write about the complete opposite of rioting – sleeping! The Cypriots like to sleep. I had never in my life, before moving here, experienced a siesta. I’d heard that the Spaniards did it, but until I moved here I didn’t understand why […]
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, […]