Most holidays in Cyprus finish without incident. The ones that don’t usually fall apart in the last ten minutes, at the return desk, when somebody crouches down with a torch and starts writing on a form. After enough years in this business you notice that what separates a relaxed trip from an expensive one almost […]
Someone asks us this every week, usually on a Tuesday, usually while the paperwork is still on the counter. Can we drive up to Kyrenia for the day? Yes. But three things have to happen in a particular order, and the first one has to happen before you collect any keys at all. The island […]
In October, for example, the light goes at about half past six, and it goes fast. One minute the coast road is still orange, ten minutes later the hills behind the town are a solid black wall with headlights crawling across it. Almost every evening somebody at our desk asks the same question: is it […]
A guest returned a car to us last August and mentioned, almost as a joke, that he had spent more time looking for a parking space at Finikoudes than swimming that day. He was not really joking. The idea is that parking is the one part of driving in Cyprus that nobody researches before arrival, […]
Let us start with the question we hear most at the counter, usually while someone is still holding their boarding pass: how much will the driving actually cost? Flights and hotels are booked months in advance, but fuel stays a mystery until you are standing at a pump in a foreign country at nine in […]
