Cyprus

Transportation The car that we rented sometimes turned into a comfortable bench for our children. We learned from our own experience that a lack of pedestrian streets and quality pavements is a scourge of Cyprus in general, not only Larnaca. Local citizens go everywhere by their own cars, while tourists have no other choice than to use a rented car, taxi, or bus, and they use them more for moving around the island rather than within a city. The Cypriots even say that if you see a walking person, it’s undoubtedly a foreigner. The Cypriots go by car even [...]

A seaside city called Larnaca has become special to us. We spent as many as 18 months here without actually intending to. It’s extremely long for us, as we are travellers and are not used to staying in one place for more than 1-2 months. It was a house in the village of Oroklini, near Larnaca, that we brought our babies to, when the twins were finally discharged from hospital in Nicosia. We’ve already told you about the beginning of our life in Cyprus, how our boys had to come to the world two months earlier due to pregnancy complications. When [...]