About this site and its author
I come from Birmingham, in the UK, and have been married for nearly 28 years. We have two grown-up sons, and three cats. We moved to Cyprus 'for two years' back in October 1997. We rented a house in Larnaka for the first nine years, then sold our house in Birmingham in the spring of 2006, and bought a house in Cyprus.
We love the lifestyle of this island - most of the time, anyway. Sometimes it's frustrating when things seem to happen very slowly, but on the whole it's a wonderful place to live.
About the site Cyprus-life.info
Shortly after we moved to Cyprus, I started a website about our family, with some monthly diary entries as we adjusted to the new culture. In the Spring of 2005, it was starting to approach the maximum allowable for Geocities free sites. I didn't really want to pay for an upgrade, so I decided to start a blog called 'This is Cyprus'. The general site maintenance is much easier with a blog, and there is no limit on space. I can post entries whenever I feel like it, rather than constraining myself to monthly summaries.I noticed, however, that I was getting a lot of visitors searching for topics such as 'weather in Cyprus' or 'cost of living in Cyprus'. Finding personal opinion and general rambling wasn't necessarily very helpful. So the idea of this site was born - an ex-pat's explanations about what life is like in Cyprus, but without the personal detail and random irrelevancies that go into my blog.
Cyprus-life.info was launched on 1st May 2007, and although I quickly built the first eight or nine pages, it then got rather neglected as I did several major upgrades to my larger site, home education in the UK. However I hope to remedy that omission during 2008.
Buying food in Cyprus
Education in Cyprus
Forums and blogs
Larnaka restaurants
Public holidays
Religion in Cyprus
Weather in Cyprus Utilities in Cyprus
