Into the blue
For a trip with a difference, how about a submarine cruise out of Larnaca marina to the shipwrecked Zenobia?
It’s just like a plane, I told my younger son, but instead of going up it goes down. Actually it was more like a coach, but still he wasn’t interested in joining us on a submarine trip. Yes, a submarine in Cyprus.
History lost
The looting of ancient sites is the biggest threat faced today by archaeology. It is also the subject of a travelling exhibition at the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia
24 hours with Andreas Demetropoulos
Turtle watch
The conservation of Mediterranean turtles has been a life’s work for the former director of the Fisheries Department
Nutrition for a healthy pregnancy
If you are pregnant or thinking of getting so, it is important to eat a balanced diet and make sure you are taking the right advice
Could it ever happen
Implausible plot lines make these films less than enjoyable
THE BREAK-UP ***
DIRECTED BY Peyton Reed
STARRING Jennifer Aniston, Vince Vaughn, Joey Lauren Adams
US 2006 105 mins
THE HILLS HAVE EYES *
DIRECTED BY Alexandre Aja
STARRING Aaron Stanford, Kathleen Quinlan, Dan Byrd, Vinessa Shaw
Whole bigger than sum of its parts
Bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi or Uva ursi) is a shrub of the Ericaceae family that grows to a height of 50cm on moors and heaths in North America, Europe and Eurasia. It has low, flexible stems, which contain evergreen lobe-shaped leaves, and is covered in pink urn-shaped flowers in spring, that are followed by bright red berries in autumn.
Take seven anti-perspirant deodorants for women
As Edison said: “Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.” Clearly he wasn’t a man who used much deodorant.
Sanex (Extra Control)
Laona Restaurant
Home cooked Cyprus food at its best
A recent report found the average time taken by workers in the UK to eat their lunch is a mere 3.5 minutes. Partaking of a proper, sit-down, leisurely lunch now seems to be a bit antiquated.
YOU’VE at least got to admire our Ethnarch for his steel cojones, standing up to the arrogant superpower that thought every time it sent us some middle-ranking nobody from the State Department, our government would express its undying gratitude, declare a public holiday and line up schoolkids along the streets waving US flags to welcome him.
A YOUNG, attractive and impressively energetic Turkish Cypriot woman bursts into a boardroom in a dauntingly prestigious advertising agency in London’s Soho Square. Out of breath, she informs the lawyers, academics and myself that the seminar is about to begin.
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.
