Cyprus

It’s late summer here in Cyprus, my favourite time of year. If you’re driving or walking around, it won’t be long before you spot fig trees, with their wide flat leaves and branches heavy with ripe fruit.  The Mediterranean climate provides the perfect environment for fig trees to flourish, and they do so abundantly, even […]

Walk down a street in Cyprus in the winter, any street, I’m certain you’re going to see citrus. Sweet juicy oranges and clementines, grapefruit, pomelo and of course lemons.  I’m not sure which came first, Cypriots using lemon for every meal of the day or lemons trees growing in gardens, and on road sides. What