Oct 27 Okay, so you think you’ve got Europe absolutely sussed out? You recognize the difference between an ogonek and an umlaut, know your pelmeni from your pierogi, and can map with precision the boundaries between the six time zones that straddle the European mainland? (Yes, there really are six separate one-hour time zones on the mainland » Read more
EuroCheapo's Cyprus Articles
Coming to Grips with Europe: Who uses the euro?
Tórshavn, capital of the Faroe Islands - not part of the EU! Photos ©hidden europe.
Cyprus Journal: Home again
Oct 09 Editor’s Note: This week, the blog has been tagging along with fellow Cheapo Alex Christodoulides as she visits family in Cyprus. NEW YORK—For the first 17 years of my life, my panorama of Cyprus was the inside of my relatives’ homes. We would arrive “apo Ameriki” and immediately begin a whirl of lunches and dinners » Read more
Cyprus Journal: Adventures in eating
Oct 07 Alex’s aunt sets the table for a Cypriot family dinner. Editor’s Note: This week, the blog will be tagging along with fellow Cheapo Alex Christodoulides as she visits family in Cyprus. Sure, the language spoken in Cyprus is Greek, but the accent is distinctive and so is the food. For one thing, Cyprus recently made » Read more
Cyprus Journal: Just landed
Oct 06 Photo by Alex Christodoulides Editor’s Note: This week, the blog will be tagging along with fellow Cheapo Alex Christodoulides as she visits family in Cyprus. Cyprus is on a modernizing rampage, wrestling on one side with its fairly recent history of colonial domination by the British, and on another side with its newly acquired European » Read more
EasyJet and Those GB Airways Routes
Nov 02 The other day we speculated about easyJet’s acquisition of GB Airways, hoping aloud that the former would take over all of the latter’s routes. We’ll admit a vested interest. We’re planning to fly from London to Cyprus next summer, and we want to do it cheaply. We just came across the first sign that our » Read more
Off the Beaten Path: Northern Cyprus
Sep 07 As low-cost airlines extend and strengthen their route maps, it’s become increasingly difficult to find truly exotic, untouched places to visit. Even given our expansive definition of Europe, which extends to the Urals, includes the Caucasus, and then swoops down to envelop Turkey, it’s ever more difficult to find places where tourist traffic is light. » Read more
Spread the Love to Cyprus
May 15 Those gosh darn Greek airlines just keep spreading the love. Case in point: Cyprus problem? What Cyprus problem? Olympic Airlines is offering a roundtrip fare of €85 between Athens and Larnaca, good for travel through December 31 of this year, with no minimum or maximum stay required. Okay, you have to add taxes, fees, security » Read more
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