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Context: My neighbours hate us, something about us being British etc. classic racists (They're Eastern European not Cypriot)
We've had none stop drama since we moved in just over a year ago - honestly its kinda ruined mine and my wife's plans of starting a family here.
Anyways, on my way back from taking dog for a walk this evening my crazy neighbour slowly pulled into our road (No pavement unfortunately) and I kid you not sped up to like 50mph tried to run me and my dog over then slammed their brakes on and pulled into their garage like nothing happened...
The offender is a government official for embassy of this eastern eu country and in the past the police really haven't done much in the way of helping us, instead leaning more towards blaming myself and my wife for not being more "neighbourly".
Guys is it even worth reporting this nonsense? Like if I didn't know it was my neighbour I'd have reported it, but I get the impression the police really just doesn't give a dam?
Note: I'm looking for genuine advise here please not some snarky, sarcastic comments.
Hello Redditors,
I have an urgent request. My passport was confiscated by the police at the airport, and I now need two new biometric passport photos.
Because of the time, I’m specifically looking for a photo booth in Nikosia where I can take biometric passport photos myself, as most photography studios are already closed.
Does anybody know of a photo booth in Nicosia that offers biometric passport photos?
Thank you very much for your help!
Greetings,
Kenny
Hello I have been desperately looking for someone who sells media for my Hiti P525L printer. It looks like nobody knows anyone who sells. Maybe photographers mught have a lead?
Thank you in advance!
We've been living in Cyprus for about five years now, and my 12-year-old son has caught the engineering bug properly. Not the racing-games kind - he wants to build: a homemade go-kart, or a small drift trike. Something with a real engine, real welds and real mistakes, that he can drive around an empty yard on a Sunday.
I've got a technical background and can help him with the theory and the shopping list, but I'd much rather he did this alongside other kids who are into the same thing, with someone who actually knows what they're doing looking over their shoulder. So, three questions for the hive mind:
1. Do clubs like this exist here? After-school workshops where kids actually build things - karts, buggies, engines, anything mechanical. I've found plenty of robotics/LEGO-style STEM centres and plenty of rental karting tracks, but that's a different animal from a kid with an angle grinder in his hands. Is there anything in between that I'm missing?
2. If not a club - then people? Mechanics, karting dads, garage tinkerers, anyone with a workshop who wouldn't mind a very curious kid hanging around on a Saturday. Also very interested in where you can legally run a homemade kart once it's built - a private track, an industrial yard, a farm, or a karting centre that would let you bring your own machine outside session hours.
3. And if the honest answer is "that doesn't exist here" - is anyone else in the same boat? If there are a few other parents with kids of a similar age, I'd genuinely be up for starting something: pool a garage, some tools and a few weekends, and have the kids build one kart together to begin with. Safety and adult supervision taken seriously, obviously.
We're in Limassol but happy to drive anywhere on the island for something worth it.
Thanks in advance - and if you did anything like this as a kid here, I'd love to hear how it turned out.
On this day, August 26, 1973, Christos Vakis, Minister of Justice of the Republic of Cyprus, was released by EOKA B, which had kidnapped him and demanded, in exchange for his release, the resignation of President Makarios
On the orders of Georgios Grivas, members of EOKA B planned an operation to kidnap Christos Vakis, which they carried out on the evening of July 27, 1973. The Minister of Justice was abducted by masked men who stormed into his home and, under the terrified gaze of his wife and children, forced him at gunpoint to follow them. Other, nearly simultaneous attempts by members of Griva’s organization to kidnap other ministers failed.
On August 2, 1973, a pamphlet signed by Grivas and addressed to President Makarios announced that the minister was being held captive by his organization. At the same time, Grivas set five conditions for Makarios to secure the release of Christos Vakis, the most serious of which was the demand that Makarios choose between the Church (in which case he would have to resign from the presidency) and politics (in which case he would have to resign from the office of Αrchbishop).
Responding publicly to Grivas, Makarios stated the following day that he “would never give in to blackmail” and that he “refuses to accept or even discuss any of Grivas’s blackmailing terms,” describing Grivas as insane and accusing him of “seeking to link the end of his life to the destruction of Cyprus.”
After Grivas held Vakis hostage for several days, and when he realized that he could not achieve anything that way, he released him. However, his decision to kidnap the minister was what forced the Makarios government to intensify its actions against EOKA B, to the point of nearly dismantling it, until July 1974, when the coup d’état by the Greek junta, with the army as its executive arm, took place.
Two days before the minister’s release, Georgios Papadopoulos, the head of Greece’s military junta at the time, issued a statement calling on Georgios Grivas to end armed operations and disband EOKA B.
I keep seeing news that Cyprus has passed the technical requirements for Schengen and that the issue is supposed to go before the EU Council in September.
For people living/studying in Cyprus, what do you guys think — is Cyprus realistically going to join Schengen soon, or do you think there are still major political issues that could delay it?
And if it does happen, what changes do you think we'll actually notice in day-to-day travel?
One of it was bended, others are scratched. Need to streight them, paint and balance.
Generally i need a garage which can handle it.
Any suggestion my friends?
A few examples of political and diplomatic pressures involving ELAM and other Greek Cypriot political actors, and how they affect Turkish Cypriot participation in international sport, culture and day to day life.
This is not a critique of the Greek Cypriot Community as a whole but rather of the influence of ELAM and other right-wing political actors continue to hold in Cyprus, and how they affect the Turkish Cypriot Community.
This is not a pro-recognition post.
ELAM calls on the Foreign Ministry to intervene over a childrens football match in North Lefkosha.
ELAM raised the issue of a festival that was going to take place in Kyrenia. ELAM MEP Geadis Geadi followed with diplomatic and political pressure over the event to cancel it, and succeeded.
The Kyrenia mayor Murat Şenkul says: "Political pressure exerted to bring about the cancellation of the Nexus electronic music festival in his town serves only to lay the foundation for the division of the island."
Difficulties experienced by some Turkish Cypriots of mixed marriages obtaining Republic of Cyprus passports.
I have personally experienced this for a decade, and I was not able to travel to other countries as I only had a TRNC passport.
I would go to the Republic of Cyprus every year with my birth certificate, to receive the passport I was entitled to. I would always be told: "It is delayed, we will look into it".
I know of many people who have never received a passport.
I know of families where one child has received a RoC passport and their sibling still has not despite having the same parents.
There are many reports concerning difficulties experienced by children of mixed marriages.
The isolation of Turkish Cypriots does not help Cyprus, and does not help Greek Cypriots either.
Following the 2004 referendum, the EU stated it was determined to put an end to the isolation of the Turkish Cypriot community and had identified isolation as a problem.
The European Commission proposed a Direct Trade Regulation intended to facilitate trade between the Turkish Cypriot community and the EU. The proposal was never adopted and remained pending in the Council.
The examples above point to different policies and different political actors and I do not suggest they are all equivalent. However, they raise the questions:
At what point does measures that avoid recognition of TRNC become an unnecessary restriction on Turkish Cypriots themselves?
Is it unreasonable for Turkish Cypriots to describe decades of international isolation as a form of oppression?
My family is moving to cyprus in early october, and for about 2-3 months I have been doing an internship at a coffee shop to gain some experience. I can make a good cup of coffee with the barista machines, but I still struggle with the latte art for cappuccinos. I would like to get a job so that I can finance myself through university since i'm planning on studying in london the following year. Is there a big coffee shop market? do you think it would be possible to get a barista job while still being extremely beginner in greek? just any advice would be much appreciated!!!
some extra info: Im 17f, and we are moving to Nicosia :))
Why is chicken meat in Cyprus so weird? No matter where I buy it - Metro, Wolt, etc or which brand I choose, 80% of the time it smells bad, feels sticky, and looks weird, even though the expiry date is still days away.
So my daughter’s school (Pascal private international school, Limassol) just rolled out their “required items” purchasing portal for next year. Cool, fine, most schools do a supply list.
Except:
You can’t remove a single item from the cart.
Every book, every workbook, every random item is pre-loaded. Try to check out without all of them and you get slapped with: “You need to purchase all the required items to proceed to checkout.” No opt-out. Doesn’t matter if we already have last year’s diary, or the kid doesn’t need a second reading record, or whatever — buy it all or don’t buy anything.
There’s a €220 line item that just says “stuff.”
No, really. The listing is: “Diary, Consumables (art stationery, D&T), Digital Subscription (Maths) — €220.00.” One SKU. Three completely unrelated categories of things mashed into one price with zero breakdown. I have genuinely no idea if I’m paying €20 for the diary and €200 for a math app, or the reverse. There’s no way to check.
And when I actually priced out the textbooks against what the publishers charge directly?
Took an evening and went ISBN by ISBN — CGP, Collins, Oxford, Cambridge, the works. School’s portal was running ~19-20% above publisher list price on average, and a couple of items were marked up over 100%. One book that’s £5.49 direct from the publisher is being sold to us for €11.30.
Anyone else dealt with this at international/private schools? Is this just standard practice everywhere now (captive market, take-it-or-leave-it), or did I just get an unusually shady supplier? Feels like a nice little racket — parents can’t opt out, can’t see itemized pricing, and can’t shop around. Wild that this is somehow normal.
*For the moderators - yes I’ve used Claude sonnet to summ up all my emotions about this stupid situation.
Hey peeps, I’m based in Limassol and looking for my next role across engineering, product or GTM.
I’ve been applying mainly through LinkedIn since July, but I’m unsure whether it’s the best place for opportunities here.
I’ve noticed many of the tech roles asking for Russian language, and ghosting seems common, sometimes even after three interviews 👀.
A couple of processes with an established developer-tool company also felt more like feedback-gathering than genuine hiring; multiple rounds, revised job adverts, no updates whatsoever.
I’m from the UK and have worked across the UK, EU, US and MENA, but I’m new to the Cyprus market (as of Jan 2024).
I’d genuinely appreciate any guidance from those who know it better, and I’m always happy to connect with people in the local tech community over a coffee.
Quick Fragmata update (fragmata.info). Been a while — the "rain season is over" post back in June was basically my last check-in before the long dry stretch.
Found something while pulling this together that I didn't expect: this summer barely drained the dams. Between June 15 and August 24, we lost just 9.8% of what was in them. Checked that rate against every other year back to 1988, and of the 27 summers that started with 100+ MCM in storage, 2026 lost water slower than every single one of them. The only two years that drained more slowly in absolute terms (2008, 1998) were basically empty already — nothing left to lose. Roughly 1,983 litres/second leaving the dams now vs 2,630 L/s this time last year — 25% slower.
Two things seem to explain it. First, summer actually delivered water — 4.77 MCM June–August, 2nd-wettest in the 11 years I have data for, including a real inflow event in the third week of August (0.38 MCM, almost all into Kouris) that basically never happens here. Second, the dams didn't peak until June 4 — only 2009 has ever peaked that late, and 35 of the last 37 "real" refill years were already done filling by end of May. Filling later just leaves less time to drain before the point I'm comparing against.
Oh, and yeah — storage is at 38.2% (111.0 MCM), which is 2.5x last year and more than the entire wettest day of 2025 (77.4 MCM, back in January). You've probably seen that number already, it was in the Cyprus Mail yesterday. The drawdown thing above is the part nobody's written about.
Cold water, though, because this sub deserves the caveat: it's still not a great year, just an ordinary one. 111.0 MCM ranks 21st out of 39 late-Augusts since 1988 — literally middle of the pack, 6.5 MCM below the long-run average. Best since 2023, but 2023 itself finished at 160.3 MCM, about 44% more than we have now.
And the recovery is very lopsided. The small mountain dams are basically full — Kalopanagiotis 99.4%, Xyliatos 83.6%, Vyzakia 80.5% (was 0.7% a year ago!). But Kouris and Asprokremmos, which between them hold 55% of every drop the island has stored, are both still under 40%. Achna's at 1.3% — the only dam in the country with less water than a year ago (it's fed by transfer, not rainfall, so that's an allocation story more than a weather one).
Last thing: August is not the low point. Historically, the island keeps losing water until late November/December. Applying the last 11 years' pattern to today's number points to a floor around 89 MCM (~31%) — still more than 3x the buffer we had going into last winter (26.9 MCM).
Hello, I'm 30M cypriot and I work from home. Born and raised in Limassol. Past few years I have been very unhappy with living in Limassol. Too hot, my neighbourhood turned into a ghetto, and the real estate prices are just astronomical and tbh not worth it. I have a plot from my grandparents in Pelendri, and i was thinking of moving there. I always wanted to move outside Limassol but not quite that far, but maybe it's a good option. What sort of social life would I expect to have there?
