This week in The Cyprus Files, I’m in search of the elusive mouflon, Cyprus’ extremely shy mountain goat.
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Category: Travel
Read “In the Karpas” in The Cyprus Files
This week in The Cyprus Files: a journey to the mysterious tip of the Karpas / Karpassia peninsula, the most remote corner of Cyprus.
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Read “The house of the dragoman” in The Cyprus Files
This week in The Cyprus Files, a look at one of the more interesting Ottoman-era institutions in Nicosia—the house of the dragoman, the imperial translator.
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Only a few issues to go vis-a-vis Cyprus! Thanks for reading.
Read “Running in the city of gold” in The Cyprus Files
This week in The Cyprus Files: a look at the Akamas area and Polis Chrysochous, the “city flowing with gold.” Polis is an historic area of great beauty—and where I ran my first 5k since the pandemic began.
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Read “In the Troödos” in The Cyprus Files
This week in The Cyprus Files, join me on Mount Olympus for a look at the Troödos mountain range, an unlikely ski resort, and the UNESCO World Heritage-certified painted churches of Byzantine vintage.
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Read “Four Holy Sites in Cyprus” in The Cyprus Files
Cyprus’ religious history spans millennia. In the latest issue of my newsletter, learn about four holy sites on the island, each relevant to different faiths.
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Read “A Near-Pope Experience” in The Cyprus Files
The newsletter is back for 2022! Check out a recap of my near-Pope experience in Cyprus last month, including a brief primer on the shared history between the Catholic and Orthodox churches. As always, thanks for reading!
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Read “The Virus in Cyprus” in The Cyprus Files
As the pandemic resurges to the top of the news, learn about how the situation is being handled in Cyprus, in the latest post in my newsletter series, The Cyprus Files.
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Read “Fast & Furious: Cypriot Drift” in The Cyprus Files
In this week’s “Cyprus Files” newsletter, learn about my adventures driving on the LEFT side of the road in Cyprus—and my experience at the local equivalent of the DMV.
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Read “Kafka on the Shore” in The Cyprus Files
This week’s entry in “The Cyprus Files” explores a different angle: the Kafkaesque bureaucratic measures required to temporarily live in Cyprus; i.e., what I’ve been up to largely over the last few months.
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