Lifestyle by Tracy Roth-Rotsas

2006-12-03

Ten-Pin Bowling a dying game?

Despite being enjoyed by millions of people around the world, like other small sports in Cyprus, bowling is struggling to keep its head above the water

What’s On

2006-12-03

Spending time at the Thessaloniki Film Festival – a world-class event, as I always have to assure doubting Thomases – is an unmitigated pleasure, but there’s a catch. Not a bad thing, certainly (quite the reverse, for most people), but let’s say a source of confusion.

What’s On by Jill Campbell Mackay

2006-12-03

The wisdom of maturity

If you want to learn gardening, archery, mathematics or a host of other subjects, the university of the third age could help keep the grey matter alive

‘Those who teach shall also learn
And those who learn shall also teach’
Peter Laslett, Founder of U3A

Take Seven blankets

2006-12-03

So, it might not be snowing outside but it’s that time of year when the slightly chilly nights call for one vital accessory: a blanket. We’ve done our research and come up with seven of the best.

Marks and Spencer Home

Eleni Menelaou

2006-12-03

Sarah Lyne Cake Shop

Melomakarona or Honey Macaroons
Makes 45

195g/1.5 cup vegetable shortening
240ml/1cup cooking oil
145g/1cup light brown sugar
1 egg
? cup brandy
Juice and zest of two tangerines
1tsp ground cloves
1tsp ground cinnamon
2tsps baking powder
3/4 to 1kg self-raising flour
500g/5 cups ground walnuts

Restaurant review by Jill Campbell Mackay

2006-12-03

Max Williams

Great for a roasting this winter

It’s not some kind of food snobbery, honestly, but I resolved to never again venture into one of those blackboard touting eateries plying their dubious culinary trade along Paphos’ tourist strip.

Wines with George Kassianos

2006-12-03

Party wine

Beaujolais Nouveau might not be a great wine but it is a good reason to join in the festivities

Picking through the ruins of the Ledra Palace

2006-12-03

OLD buildings sometimes inspire more pity than anything human can. Like wounded animals, buildings left to die suffer dumbly. Functional in nature, their spaces are used and reused, patched and reshaped, by amnesiac hands.

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.