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It is never easy to leave what you are used to, the comforts of what you call home and the company of those who are dear. It is harder, maybe, to start a new life in a new city, doing a new job, living in a new...

Put together people always smiling, going slowly, speaking loud and using the car even for very small distances, smell of coffee around the city, very busy streets and you could not tell whether you are in Nicosia or in the south of Italy. This is exactly how it seems...

Can you imagine an island in Europe with more cats residents than humans?  Cat lovers unite! Today I would like to introduce you Cyprus!   1.5 million of cats versus 1.2 million of people!  According to the latest data of animal welfare organisations working in Cyprus, there are significantly more feline residents than people…   As soon as you...

I don’t particularly like new beginnings. I never have. Yet, I keep looking for them. It is like when I start writing on a blank page. I never know how to start: the beginning is the most difficult part. I would always prefer to start...

Nicosia, or Lefkosia in Greek, is the capital of Cyprus and it is the only city situated inland. The city was fundamentally altered by the Turk invasion in 1974, and since then both the island and Nicosia has been split in two by the Green Line.   At first sight it appears to...

I have always been attracted by border areas. I see the border as a space characterised by creativity and richness, because it is a place where differences meet and they find themselves having to look for their own way to merge, to intersect, to overlap or to...

The future is scaring and if you are in your twenties you for sure know what being scared about the future means. When I finished my bachelor degree I was not sure about what to do next. Master? Volunteering? Traveling?  On top of this,...