To YG Equestrian Centre and YG Pro Shite team with my undying love… My earliest memory of horses comes from a black and white picture taken by my dad during a visit to our family’s farm. The image captures a stunning mare, a working horse, and me sitting on her without a saddle when I…
Tag: Cyprus
Three Castles
The Kingdom of Cyprus was a medieval kingdom of the Crusader States that existed between 1192-1489. It comprised not only the entire island, but also had its foothold on the Anatolian mainland: Antalya (1361-1373) and Corycus (today’s Mersin Province, 1361-1448). Initially it was ruled as an independent Christian kingdom. Cyprus under the Crusaders experienced significant…
Halloumi Cheese
Cyprus is not only about oranges, lemons and cats. The island also offers quite an interesting mixture of cultures and cuisine. Yes, some people may find Cypriot cuisine rather close or similar to the Greek cuisine, but for me it offers a blend of tastes and influences from last several centuries. I am a fan…
Cats and lemons everywhere
Cyprus is quite an interesting creature, with its location on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea, straddling Europe, Middle East and North Africa underpinning its unique profile. The genealogy of today’s Cypriots stretches all the way back to time preceding the ancient Egypt, dating as far as tenth millennium BC. This is the earliest…
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