I'm a seaman from philippines and our ship is an LPG tanker, our home port is Vasiliko so basically we are always docking in there. Just wanna ask where is the biggest supermarket in Vasiliko? I dont have a car only bicycle. Thanks in advance.
Day 14 - Kanika Enaerios Complex, 05/07/2026
I am writing this in response to the recent viral post about the Russian IT community supposedly hating Cypriots.
I really want to say that this is not true. At least not for me, and I believe not for a very big part of the Russian-speaking community here.
Since we all coexist on one small island, I think we really need to learn not to generalise people by nationality.
Many Cypriots understand that “Russians” are not one single type of person. The Russian-speaking community here is very different: Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians, Kazakhstanis, Armenians, Buryats, Yakuts and many others. Some of us do not even look “typically Russian”, whatever that means :)
And I think it is also important for Russian-speaking people to understand that Cypriots are also very different. Greek Cypriots, Pontic Greeks, refugees from the north, people who grew up abroad, people from villages, people from cities, people with very different families, stories and views.
So when someone has a bad experience, I really wish we could stop saying “Russians are like this” or “Cypriots are like that”. Bad behaviour is not nationality. Sometimes it is lack of culture, sometimes stress, sometimes low salaries, sometimes a broken system. And to be honest, Cypriots suffer from this system too.
And actually, I think we have much more in common than it seems.
We both know what it means to live with the pain of war. We both live somewhere between Europe and Asia. We both have this strange mix of hospitality, strong family culture, love for cities, and also abandoned villages that make your heart hurt a little. We both know how to complain about bureaucracy for hours and still survive somehow :)
For those of us Russian-speaking immigrants who want to stay here, we also need to learn more about the local society. Not only beaches, rent prices and immigration appointments, but the real details, history, sensitivities and differences between people. And yes, maybe sometimes we also need to lower our expectations from the abstract immigration officer, because if he earns 900 euros and does the work of six people, he is probably also not living his dream life there.
And for Cypriots, I think there is also something good you can take from the Russian-speaking community, especially from the IT people. Use us in a good way :) We are actually very helpful. Because of our own problems and backgrounds, we are very good at building a system on top of a broken system. We know how to make chats, maps, guides, spreadsheets, communities, emergency solutions and 25 backup plans for everything.
We are generous and we are not evil, I promise :) But we do feel insincerity very strongly. And we really do not want to feel like we are being cheated, especially with crazy rent prices or “special foreigner prices”. That hurts and creates more distance between people.
Also, many of us really do want to learn Greek. But it is hard 😥 Please help us. Speak Greek with us, even if we are slow and sound terrible. We are trying. Sometimes very slowly, sometimes with panic in our eyes, but still trying.
I am honestly very sad when I see tension between Russian-speaking people and Cypriots. I really want us to find more common ground. We live on the same small island. It would be so much better if we treated each other with a bit more curiosity, humour and kindness.
In June 1964, Greek Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou held talks in the United States, primarily regarding the Cyprus issue, in which Dean Acheson also participated on behalf of the U.S. Dean Acheson was an American politician and U.S. Secretary of State from 1949 to 1953.
In 1964, he submitted a plan to resolve the Cyprus issue following the intercommunal unrest.
Papandreou refused to yield to American pressure regarding the resolution of the Cyprus issue, but he accepted the offer of assistance, which was expressed primarily through the promotion of Acheson as a mediator in the Cyprus issue, an issue that had strained relations between Greece and Turkey and was disrupting peace within NATO, with the threat of a Greek-Turkish war.
At the same time, the United Nations had appointed its own mediator for the Cyprus issue, the Finnish Sakari Tuomioja. Acheson’s intervention, which was presented as a reinforcement of the role of the United Nations mediator, was a move by the U.S. that followed Papandreou’s refusal to travel to the United States for a summit meeting with Turkish Prime Minister İsmet İnönü aimed at resolving the Cyprus issue.
The President of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, made it clear in a statement (July 1, 1964) that “the Cypriot side rejects the appointment of any advisers to the United Nations political mediator, because this would mean, to some extent, the appointment of multiple mediators and would entail the risk of the issue becoming entangled in circles outside the United Nations.”
However, in July 1964, Acheson took part in the Greek-Turkish talks held in Geneva regarding the Cyprus issue as “special envoy” of U.S. President Lyndon Johnson, while Tuomioja described him as “his assistant.”
In Geneva, Acheson ultimately sidelined Tuomioja and took charge of the Cyprus Issue himself in July and August 1964, even presenting his actions as supported by the UN.
Acheson’s consultations and the formulation of his “ideas” for a solution to the Cyprus Problem took place separately with the representative of Greece, D. Nikolaerezis, and the representative of Turkey, who later became Prime Minister of Nihat Erim.
Ultimately, the much-discussed Acheson Plan for resolving the Cyprus issue was not an official, comprehensive plan, but rather a series of proposals put forward in Geneva that came to be known as the “Plan.”
It was submitted on July 5, 1964, and provided for the union of Cyprus with Greece in exchange for concessions to Turkey (the cession of the Karpasia Peninsula to Turkey or the lease of the Karpasia Peninsula and the cession of Kastellorizo to Turkey).
At least no comprehensive and final plan drafted by Acheson has been revealed. The various proposals that Acheson made to the Greek government, which he later amended, were called the three Acheson Plans, numbered 1, 2, and 3.
The second plan, submitted on August 22, 1964, included revised proposals from the American mediator, following the Greek government’s rejection of his initial proposals. However, the so-called second Acheson Plan was ultimately rejected by both Archbishop Makarios and Georgios Papandreou.
However, at the time it was submitted, the Greek Cypriot leadership could not accept it as is, as it believed that the struggle for Hellenism had been won in Cyprus (through the landing on October 20, 1964, and the Greek Division) , and therefore was not willing to make concessions to Turkey.
The behind-the-scenes negotiations, mediated by Dean Acheson, which took place between the two negotiators from the two countries, specifically, D. Nikolaerezis and Nihat Erim, reveal that the main point of friction and disagreement was the terms under which Turkey would acquire territory in Cyprus and to what extent.
Greece was willing to allow Turkey to occupy a portion of territory within Cyprus in exchange for the island's union with Greece, for its own military defense purposes not under a regime of sovereignty but based on a 50-year lease with no prospect of renewal, and in exchange, the Greek side ceded sovereignty to Turkey, along with the Kastellorizo island group.
Greece made it clear that this specific area could not exceed the total area of the existing British bases and would not constitute sovereign Turkish territory.
On the other hand, the Turkish side categorically rejected this and demanded permanent Turkish sovereignty over the ceded Cypriot territory, while continually presenting maps showing variations in the extent of the Karpasia Peninsula, which extended as far as Kyrenia and the Turkish Cypriot enclave of Famagusta, while the greatest concession Greece was willing to make to Turkey always within the framework of a lease agreement with a fixed term extended only as far as the Greek Cypriot village of Rizokarpaso. There was an American proposal to extend the zone further, all the way to the Greek Cypriot village of Akanthou, which the Turkish side subsequently viewed favorably, but Greece rejected due to the number of people who would have to be relocated Acheson attempted to bridge the gap by proposing that the base extend as far as Greek Cypriot village Komi Kepir. (See Makarios Drousiotis’s book, p. 338, “The First Partition.”).
It should be noted that the plan provided for the relocation of ONLY the Greek Cypriot residents of the geographical area under negotiation within Cyprus, given that the overwhelming majority of the areas under discussion were inhabited by Greek Cypriots, while Turkish Cypriots would remain in their areas under Greek sovereignty through a special agreement that would guarantee their rights as a defined, recognized, and protected minority with freedoms of self-government in local matters. In other words, they would become Greek citizens.
This was also the main reason why Archbishop Makarios categorically rejected this settlement plan, because he was not willing to accept any resettlement of the Greek Cypriot population within Cyprus in exchange for such concessions, and, in fact, the only counterproposal was to cede to Turkey an area for the construction of a military base in the Akrotiri Grego region, which would not exceed the size of the British military bases.
Center-right party. In early 1969, following encouragement from President Makarios, who had stated that he supported the establishment of political parties in Cyprus other than the left-wing AKEL, there was intense party activity on the island, particularly in the run-up to the 1970 parliamentary elections. Apart from ΑΚΕΛ / AKEL, the only other party was the right-wing Δημοκρατικόν Εθνικόν Κόμμα / Democratic National Party (ΔΕΚ / DEK), which had been founded in May 1968 and had opposed Makarios, participating in the presidential elections that same year and garnering 3.71% of the vote. The new parties that were founded were the Ενιαίον Κόμμα / United Party, the ΕΔΕΚ / EDEK, the Προοδευτικόν Κόμμα / Progressive Party and the Προοδευτική Παράταξη / Progressive Front.
The United Party was founded in February 1969 by the Speaker of the House, Glafkos Clerides, with Polykopos Giorkatzis as his co-leader. The latter had served as Minister of the Interior and Defense of the Republic, but was forced to resign on November 2, 1968, following the crisis that had arisen due to his active involvement in the assassination attempt against the leader of the military regime ruling Greece, Georgios Papadopoulos, through the recruitment and training of Alekos Panagoulis in Cyprus.
Glafkos Clerides had repeatedly discussed the whole issue of founding a party that would aim to unite all the country’s political forces , beyond the Left, with President Makarios, whose support he had secured.
When, on February 5, 1969, Clerides officially announced the founding of the United Party, **Makarios issued his own statement: «**χαιρέτιζε τήν ἀναληφθεῖσαν πρωτοβουλίαν διά τήν ὀργάνωσιν πολιτικοῦ κόμματος τῆς *ἐθνικόφρονος παρατάξεως» / ''*welcoming the initiative taken to organize a political party of the patriotic faction.'' For its part, the new party announced that it supported President Makarios.
The Unity Party was subsequently founded, but it became the target of attacks by the illegal organization Εθνικόν Μέτωπον / National Front, which emerged in March 1969.
I had to unfortunately experience the general hospital in Paphos this morning, and it makes me so damn sad how we cannot feel safe or in good hands in a difficult time. Where do I begin.
- Arrived at 1:30, nobody was at reception for 5 minutes. Woman who doesn't hide that she's miserable shows up and is of course rude and short, you have to guess what she means.
- Nurses occasionally came out to make an announcement, in Greek. When people who didn't understand were asking questions, they were rudely told off! In English. So if you have the ability to speak English why don't you make your announcement in both languages, or not be rude when asked a question at the hospital!!
- Nurses, doctors, security, and the cleaner were all loudly complaining and judging patients the whole time. "Why would this guy cut his hand at this time!! She's drunk, went out and had too much fun. This woman needs to be in Athalassa haha. Epellanan mas!!!" Over and over and over again.
- Doctors and nurses are not wearing masks. Do I need to say more?! Also not changing gloves between patients.
- The whole entrance had a big trail of blood. So did the toilet and sink. I was there when someone told them to clean both. Exactly 1 hour and 30 minutes later someone cleaned SOME of the trail, the rest was still there 7 hours later when I left. I needed the toilet long after they were told to clean and it was still not cleaned.
- Doctors and nurses loudly arguing between them "No, I told you that you needed to do X blood test, not that one!! No, that was supposed to be for room X, not that one!!" Very reassuring.
- Was there from 1:30 until 11:45 and at least 9 hours of that was waiting. For this I'm not blaming the staff, but it certainly does not feel right having only one ER in the whole city.
I'm done. I'm just disappointed and sad.
Hey everyone, I’m a 40-something in Cyprus feeling frustrated by the lack of real support and energy in the local startup scene. It often feels like we’re in the wrong place for building something meaningful.
I’m looking for like-minded people (regardless of location) who want to change that. Let’s connect, exchange ideas, share experiences, and support each other — real conversations, not just small talk.
Anyone interested? Drop a comment or DM me if you’re serious about collaborating and growing together.
Let’s build something better 👇
Hey, im looking for tennis people to play in Nicosia. Im intermediate advanced. If anyone is interested please hit me up! 🎾
Hi,
we’re four guys, and we’ve put together Westminster’s restaurant scene in an app called Vota. The concept is simple: you see two places side by side (for example Famille vs. Kachina Southwestern Grill), you choose the place you’d rather go to, and the ranking updates instantly. The more people vote, the more accurate the list gets over time. There are still a few duplicates here and there, but I’m continuously cleaning up the data.
Here’s the iPhone version, with categories that actually fit Westminster’s food scene:
https://apps.apple.com/app/vota-restaurant-ratings/id6744969212
And here’s the Android version (finally live):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.vota.app
P.S. I’m not from Westminster (I live in Gothenburg). I’m not collecting data, not selling anything, and the app does not use AI-generated content. I’m posting in a few different subreddits because we now support more regions, and I genuinely want honest feedback from people who actually know the area.
My last post had some comments. I didn’t think that some one will react and I wanted to say thank you all fore it! Cyprus community is one of best community’s in Internet!
Hi everyone!
I'm considering coming to Protaras (specifically the region close to Nisia Loumbardi beach) around 10-17th of September. I would be staying at a hotel with my boyfriend, and we've never been to Cyprus so we'd appreciate any advice.
We're looking for a nice, relaxing holiday. Not really interested in partying, we prefer enjoying the beach, maybe looking into some fun things (I saw some posts about snorkeling and swimming with turtles) and generally enjoying the beauty of Cyprus.
My concern is that around 10-17th of September it might be too hot and crowded? Can someone please let me know if that's the case?
I also saw a Reddit post from 3 months ago saying how it is not safe because of the political situation and how kany flights are being canceled etc. Is that true or just fear mongering?
Thanks to everyone in advance! 🌞
My cousin recently got accepted to CAU (Cyprus Aydin University) in Northern Cyprus with an 87% scholarship. On paper, it sounds amazing: the original tuition is €10,000 per year, but with the scholarship he’d only pay €1,300, plus about €600 in annual fees.
The part that’s making me nervous is that they’re asking for a €1,250 deposit upfront and that discount feels fishy for me...
I’ve tried explaining my concerns to him, but he thinks I’m just being overly skeptical. Maybe I am. The problem is, I’ve been checking Reddit posts about Northern Cyprus universities in general, and honestly, most of what I found is not encouraging at all (recognition issues, quality concerns, people warning others to be careful before paying, etc...)
At the same time, I understand why he wants to believe in it. For his family, this looks like an affordable chance to study abroad, and I don’t want to crush that dream for no reason. Since am already abroad on a scholarship.
When I searched online, I kept seeing people talk about EMU, Near East, CIU, and a few others. CAU doesn’t seem to come up nearly as often, which made me wonder if there’s something we’re missing.
So I’d really appreciate honest answers from current students, graduates, or anyone who knows the university.
Is CAU actually legitimate and recognized?
Are scholarships like this normal there? Is that €1,250 deposit standard?
And honestly, if this was your fam, would you tell him to go?
I just want honest advice prior to any action
Thanks.
A few months ago, I made a post on this Reddit because I was going through a very difficult period after arriving in Cyprus.
Many of you replied with advice, shared your experiences, and gave me words of encouragement that completely changed the way I saw things.
Thanks to that, and thanks to the affection and appreciation I developed for this island, I kept trying. Over time, I managed to recover some clients. Since then, I’ve been able to travel back to Madrid for work, and little by little I’ve started generating income and finding new business opportunities.
So, before anything else, I just wanted to say thank you. It may sound silly, but some of your comments genuinely opened my mind.
Now I’m back with a completely different idea, and I’d really like to hear your opinion. Sorry guys, I’m an entrepreneur—I love ideas and new projects—so you’ll probably see me sharing some of my latest ideas in different posts… anyway, let’s continue.
For quite some time, I’ve been talking to many people, both locals and foreigners, and there’s one phrase I keep hearing over and over again:
“Larnaca needs a really good Mexican food place.”
That got me thinking.
Before moving to Cyprus, I lived in Madrid for almost 10 years. As many of you know, I’m from Venezuela (and yes, the earthquake situation has been difficult). During my first two years in Madrid, I met two Mexican chefs and ended up working very closely with them. I learned a tremendous amount about Mexican cuisine, eventually became the kitchen manager in one of their restaurants, and later opened my own burrito business using everything I had learned about cooking, processes, and marketing. Eventually, I transferred the business to someone else (Spain is not the best place for entrepreneurs), but the whole experience taught me an incredible amount.
As a Latin American, our cuisine has always been a big part of my life.
My idea is very simple. I don’t want to open a restaurant right away or make a huge investment. First, I want to validate whether there is actually a market.
I’m thinking about preparing food from home one day a week, only through pre-orders.
For example, one weekend I would offer authentic Mexican food, and the next weekend authentic Venezuelan food, all homemade, using quality ingredients and traditional recipes. The idea would be to promote the menu during the week, collect orders in advance, and only cook what has already been ordered.
If the response is positive, then I’d consider taking the next step by looking for funding, partners, etc., and eventually opening a small place focused mainly on takeaway and delivery.
What really excites me is sharing my culture, our flavors, and introducing authentic Latin American food to Cyprus.
So I’d really like to know what you think:
Would you order this kind of food?
What do you honestly think about this idea?
Which day do you think would work best: Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?
Would you prefer Mexican food, Venezuelan food, or both?
It could be one Mexican weekend, one Venezuelan weekend, and later maybe even Peruvian food.
Is there any Latin American dish you especially miss in Cyprus?
Any opinion, criticism, or suggestion is more than welcome.
Thanks, my Reddit Panas!
By the way, it would be in Larnaca. I didn’t mention the city.
Day 13 - Kanika Enaerios Complex, 04/07/2026
Just check out how the system is exploited. Next elections this needs to be a make or break issue.
Couple in Famagusta looking to have a third for fun
As the title suggests - would you be up to organizing a meet-up/ feast at a local tavern in southern Nicosia?
Let’s start focusing on the solution. Not the problem!
North and south Korea for pretty obvious reasons, north Italy and south Italy, north and south china, north and south Ireland, the list goes on and on and on. What is it about the regional differences that causes such huge cultural shifts and sometimes even war and complete shifts altogether?