Codes and travelling for a purpose

It’s hardly time travel but the Newgrange mound outside Dublin is well worth the trip

Opera without the boring bits
Ten tenors from Australia have included Cyprus in their current world tour and will present classical and contemporary numbers (as well as an impressive stage presence)

All aboard

There can be no better way of seeing Paphos than from the deck of a cruiser. We take a short trip around the island’s western coast line

There are few of life’s pleasures that can match messing around in a boat, a feeling recently satisfied by a short sea voyage aboard the renovated Greek ferry the Wave Dancer.

Natural sun-sense

When you are protecting yourself from the sun there is no need to use harmful chemicals

Happy with bad airports and ugly fruits

I was on the London underground yesterday going from Green Park to Finchley Road and reading a newspaper when suddenly an elderly lady sitting next to me tapped me on the shoulder and asked whether she could have a look at it as well.

No Greeks on the moon, no turks on Mars

The reconciliatory politics of Cypriot shadow theatre

DIRECTED BY Wolfgang Petersen
STARRING Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Emmy Rossum, Richard Dreyfuss
US 2006 100 mins.

IMAGINE ME & YOU *
DIRECTED BY Ol Parker
STARRING Piper Perabo, Lena Headey, Matthew Goode
UK 2006 94 mins.

The story man

Local artist Haji Mike releases his third album – a collection of reggae songs about the world around him

At the beginning of last month, Haji Mike released his third solo album, The Storyman.

Honey is ‘manufactured’ in one of the world’s most efficient factories, the beehive, with bees travelling as far as 55,000 miles and visiting more than two million flowers to gather enough nectar to make just a half kilo of honey.