By Andrianne Philipou
Those who read my column regularly will know football is not really my thing. So rarely will you find me down at the pub supporting a match (although occasionally my timing has been off and resistance futile – at moments like these though, I usually end up doing...

By Bev Horton-Jennings
 It was disappointing to hear the news that Larnaca hadn’t won top prize in the European Mobility Week 2011 awards. That said, achieving the joint runner-up spot (with Zagreb) behind the winning city, Bologna, in a competition that attracted no fewer than 2,268...

By Andrianne Phillppou
 I’m feeling so proud of myself right now. Three months into 2012 and I’m still hard at it… my New Year’s resolution I mean. Can’t quite believe it either, but it’s true. I promised myself I’d start something special, something just for me, something I’ll do...

By Lucie Robson
On my desk is a piece of paper bearing nine phone numbers, seven for Nicosia and two for Paphos, all surrounded by scribbles of information I have acquired by painstakingly calling each, one after the other, and speaking in my wonky Greek to the people at the other end.
...

By Martyn Henry
Have you noticed how those random noises that a house makes have taken on a far more sinister tone lately?
Do you get a small frisson of fear when the cat suddenly sits up and stares fixedly at the back door, late at night?
And the man walking towards you as...

By Charlie Charalambous

When the Champions League draw for the last 16 was made last year the people of Lyon were trying very hard not to behave as if they had won the Euro lottery. All they had to do was sweep aside a ‘tin-pot’ team from backwater Cyprus before basking in European...

By Bev Orton-Jennings
 Those who know me will be aware of my ongoing battle with electronic gadgets. It’s a long running saga. Either I can’t get the hang of operating them, or they just decide to expire. Diodes, transistors, printed circuits, and whatever else exist inside their...

By Lucie Robson
Pontedera is a small town in Tuscany located roughly between Pisa and Florence. According to Wikipedia, it has a population of 27,808. Industry, in the form of car manufacturing, is the cornerstone of its economic activity. Additionally, it has a chocolate factory.
It...

By Adrianne Philippou
By the time you open your Cyprus Weekly this week, International Women’s Day will be over for another year…but that’s ok, I’m still going to take this opportunity to share my appreciation, love and admiration for the most special woman in my life…my mum.
Just...

 I have been in the newspaper business for more years than I care to remember and have been involved in the reporting of a number of shocking, terrible and heart breaking stories.
But no matter how hard boiled I may think I have become I constantly find myself shaking my head and often...