Who am I?
My name is Sue. I come from Birmingham, in the UK, and have been married for nearly 30 years. We have two grown-up sons, and three cats. We moved to Cyprus in October 1997. Our sons were 11 and 9 at the time, and we planned, originally, to stay here for two years. We rented a house with a large garden, and embarked on educating our sons at home temporarily, while we settled in. Twelve years later, we're still here. The boys never did go to school, and have now left home. In 2006 we had to move out of our rental home, as it was being knocked down, so we sold our house in the UK and bought one here.
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. If you want to know a LOT more about me, and day-to-day observations about living here, you can always follow my blog 'This is Cyprus!' (see below).
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, and then - when Geocities was going to be closed down - I re-designed the family website, and wrote some more pages for it.
Now, in 2010, I'm re-organising the few pages I have on this site to make them easier to handle, and hope to write many more. If you would like to get in touch to let me know of errors or omissions, to ask questions, or to suggest other pages for this site, please do so. My email address is in image form below (to deter those who would use it for nefarious purposes) rather than being clickable:
