Paphos Life

Ye Gods, I must admit that I have seen some vicious and nasty posts on the Cyprus forums over the years but the brave - perhaps fearless - keyboard warriors that appear to be sticking their heads above the parapet are becoming more numerous. Whether someone had made ten posts or a hundred posts is i...

There appear to be two school of thought about negotiations. Is it a hard-fought battle with knees and elbows, or is it a reasoned discussion where there is "give and take" on both sides? I must say that I believe that any government should put the welfare of its own citizens first, above ...

Love it ... absolutely love it

"We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.”

Talk about a moral dilemma ...

Four years and counting ... we had an agreement to return after twelve months if either of us was unhappy. Strangely enough, we talked about it eighteen months after arrival. As far as we are concerned we are here for the duration (Brexit willing) and will apply for permanent residence after our fif...

A very simple procedure. After making your appointment then go along with the required documents. Your Cypriot bank statements need to be stamped at your bank, which ours did on the spot. Your UK bank details can be photocopies. All the documents required need to have photocopies. My wife put all of...

Every day someone comes up with a new IPTV solution, and FaceBook is awash with fly-by-night sellers or resellers. I suspect many expats have found a system that suits them, and then the service deteriorates or a better deal is discovered. And so the search goes on ... We have been with our current ...

This beggars belief. One pays for door-to-door delivery and the people who are being paid to deliver it want you to do their job (and at your expense). Now I don't mind popping into the courier's office in Polis, as we are in Polis all the time but the principle still rankles. What I suspect may hap...

There is a lovely East European lady at our local petrol station, always the with a smile and a greeting, and who always cleans out front and back screens with "cleanish" water. So a €1,00 tip and never worry about it.

I don't have time to list all the things that ended up in the pool overnight, but nothing a little clearing up didn't sort. My lovely wife left an empty bucket out and I was astonished how much water there was in there this morning.

Good luck with this enterprise, Dominic, and may it be successful. The various expat forums were, and still are, very helpful to those intending to move here or those of us who did make the move. As long as newcomers realise there is a great deal of difference between fact and opinion, all will be w...