True Cyprus lovers

A BRITISH couple has been honoured by Cyprus Airways and the Cyprus Tourist Organisation on their 77th visit to Cyprus yesterday.

Couple Mary and Ronald Vass were celebrated on their arrival in a ceremony at Larnaca airport.
Ronald and Mary have been holidaying in Cyprus twice a year – April and October – for almost four decades and always travel with Cyprus Airways. Their frequent flying has has resulted in them knowing almost the entire flight staff.

The couple, now in their 80s, said they have more friends in Cyprus than in England and always stay in Limassol, which is their preferred city.

Cyprus Airways spokesman, Tasos Angelis, said that he considers the Vasses to be two “very good friends, who really love our people and country; a couple who feel Cyprus as their own home and who will say or do anything to defend it”.

During the ceremony, the couple were presented with flowers and memorabilia from both Cyprus Airways and the Cyprus Tourist Organisation and also wished the couple the number of times they come to Cyprus to become 100.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.