Paphos Life

I walked to Foinikas from the water treatment building a few weeks ago. An enjoyable walk if you don't mind the uphill on the way back. It's not too steep though. The walk took me around 2 hours round trip but that's me taking it very easy, walking down a bit as well as up to Foinikas, and stopping ...

With eShop you have to fill in the customs declaration once the parcel arrives at their warehouse, even when it's an EU warehouse, and then you pay the VAT and customs charge (for UK parcels) when it arrives in Cyprus. So all seems above board. (I have nothing to do with the company, I've just found...

Here you go - https://www.eshopwedrop.com.cy/en They stopped the UK for a while but they do it again now. You do end up paying VAT twice (in the UK and on arrival here) but when I need something I can't get another way I just grin and bear it (and swear about Brexit). It takes 2-3 weeks to arrive he...

New traffic law extends deadlines and adds timers House of Representatives approves changes to traffic offence regulations ....Another major change approved by Parliament focuses on the use of photoelectric devices... This proposal mandates the installation of countdown timers at junctions controlle...

Thanks for the update Dominic and good to hear the cafe is now open. It would be a great location for a lunch break from work, when I occasionally treat myself to one.

So cute! Thanks Max

I'm quite enjoying it, the air is lovely and fresh and it makes a nice change after the mild January (and last few winters). It helps that it's not raining though, as it would be more miserable then (though yes, I know we desperately need rain). But yes, I like cold spells to be quite short lived, I...

I really liked the idea of having a compost bin, but mine never seemed to turn into compost so I stopped using it.

Any experts out there who can give me advice on how to make it work?

I believe that logging a repeat prescription request (I do mine by email) as a visit on Gesy is a Gesy requirement, not doctors being greedy. Something about a visit needing to be logged in order to create a prescription on Gesy. But I can't remember where I heard that, so I may be wrong. I also see...

Thanks Max, praying mantis are quite fascinating creatures and very photogenic.

And a very happy Christmas to you too.

I got a nice, not expensive one from Superhome Centre a few years ago, so that may be worth a try

Thanks Sunspot. Knowing what we can get here may be useful for me one day if I visit another high altitude country. My friend and I wished we had some tablets when we were in Bolivia last year.

Personally I don't see this as a setback. The setback was Intrakat. They have removed them and now the process can continue. Yes, I'm hoping this will turn out to be good news, if they can find a new company soon enough and it's a decent company that will actually get the job done, rather than leav...

I'm in Anarita too, near KEN. It must have been blowing from the north, as the front of the house (i.e. driveway, front door) was battered and the ground there and down the sides of the house are now covered in a carpet of bits of the trees surrounding the property. My bin and compost bin ended up f...

The images and number of deaths really are shocking and scary.

Dominic wrote: ↑Fri Oct 25, 2024 6:30 pm What was the postage charge?

1 was £14 and the other £6

I've just received 2 packages which I ordered from Amazon UK. One was posted from Gateshead, the other from China. In both cases they were delivered straight to me without any request for VAT or customs charges. The Amazon invoices (found through the 'my orders' page on their website) have a small n...

People react differently to altitude. I wish I'd had tablets when I went to Bolivia last year, though we were only sick after we'd spent a day between 4000 and 5000m. I didn't suffer from headaches though. I can't help with your question though as I hadn't investigated the tablets before I left Cypr...

I've bought a couple of things from Amazon UK recently and wasn't charged any VAT or import costs here in Cyprus. I understood it was fine at Amazon's end

Oh, what sad news. I was on Cyprus Living for many many years before he closed it, and it was such an invaluable source of information. Back in the days without Facebook groups, many of us would have been lost without it. I'm so glad you kept a local Paphos forum going Dominic, I still look on here ...