Bar review: Academy 32, Nicosia

2011-12-23

“We don’t have customers, we have guests here.” I’m sipping on a sumptuous cocktail while chatting with the owner of the charming Academy 32 in old Nicosia, a person who doesn’t really believe in viewing his bar as a business. For a start, the wonderfully converted 1901 building tucked away right on the Venetian Walls at the Constanza Bastion is also the owner’s home, and it’s his pride and joy.

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.