If you have ever been threatened in your life, you will know it’s not a pleasant experience. A direct threat of violence was pretty much all you would have expected in your life, until the invention of the world wide web, emails and social...
When I was a kid, a teenager, watching the first Apollo moon landing, I vowed to become an astronaut. There was a major drawback with that dream. I hated school and lived in Britain. Two main requisites to becoming an astronaut was to be good at...
A couple of years ago I wrote a piece lamenting my inability to pick up the Greek language, you can read it here. I’ve lived in Greek speaking Cyprus eleven years now and it’s still all Greek to me. I cannot fathom the spoken...
Yesterday my wife and I took a stroll round Paphos harbour with it’s fine selection of dining areas, potential boat trips, some expensive boats and the old castle that was playing host to the Ninth Paphos Beer Festival. The area was packed...
If I stand at the front door of my apartment, I get a good view of the Mediterranean sea and can clearly see the waves gently lapping up to the shoreline. I don’t have to stand on tip-toes or crane my neck. Even if my only neighbour is in...
Buying a property has its ups and downs. Buying a property in Cyprus tends to have a little sideways motion to it as well, things that need doing by a certain time can slide a little, especially in the summer. Put it this way, it’s not...
Buying a holiday apartment turned out to be a lot less complicated than I expected. Having said that, we don’t get all the legal documentation or another four months… and nobody seems to know the reason why. I suspect it’s...
Once upon a time you could set your watch by the seasons. You knew that there would always be a Spring, Summer, Autumn and a Winter. These days the seasons seem to have merged and moved around. Our spring in Cyprus was basically so wet you could...
I wrote a piece for my blog a month or so ago about the odd things you can see in the Cyprus sky. You can read Starry, Starry Night by clicking here. Things That Go Bang In The Night Of course some of the things we get in the night sky are...
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