Category: Cyprus

I live in Cyprus for many years now. It is a beautiful little island in Mediterranean Sea. It features warm weather for most of the year, sea, very kind and hospital people, plenty of jobs in IT industry, good food and plenty of alcohol, stable currency, and more. It’s really a nice place to live if you can handle small towns and villages. It’s also a great place to raise the kids.

Not much happens here. It is a quiet and simple place. Yet, when something happens or when I write about it, I post it to Cyprus category.

Cyprus Rally 2005: Preparations

Cyprus Rally 2005 is about to start now. Today I went to the Rally HQ to buy a couple of Rally Passes. Mainly I was after the programme magazine which is usually included with the Pass package.

After waiting and walking around for a couple of hours, I learned that there was some problem with organizers and that they will start distributing Passes only tomorrow. Before I got disappointed and all depressed, I managed to acquire (hehe) a copy of the magazine with the rally programme. No need to feel sad – we’ll be planning our activities no matter what.

I have also walked around the Service Park. I was wearing the last year’s Subaru t-shirt and most of the guards thought for some reason that I was with Subaru team. They were encouraging me to join Subaru mechanics, asking questions, cheering and stuff like that. I used such a friendly opportunity to make a whole bunch of pictures. Drivers and co-drivers were out of the Service Park at some press conference or something like that, so no pictures of them. But, instead, I’ve got plenty shots of mechanics, cars, team camps, flags, etc.

Album location: /photos/2005/2005-05_Cyprus_Rally/2005-05-11_Preparations/

Parking lot

It never stops to amaze me how many pictures one can do from the single window. Small things do matter. A slight change in direction, time of the day, season, weather conditions can make a whole lot of difference.

Album location: /photos/2005/2005-05-10_POTD

Glasses on the bench

My mother-in-law, Olga, Maxim, and I went for a walk to the municipal park today. I’ve made a bunch of pictures – some are good, others – not so. I was surprised by light. We were in the park after 5:00pm, but the light was as harsh as in the middle of the day.

Album location: /photos/2005/2005-05-08_POTD

Traffic light for clouds

I’ve made a few interesting shots today. This is one of them. Check the album for others.

Album location: /photos/2005/2005-05-07_POTD

Aspects of Cyprus

Aspects of Cyprus is a new website published by Press & Information Office of Cyprus Government. Here is the description from the site itself:

This Presentation contains information about Cyprus covering a wide spectrum of topics such as geography, history, political system, economy, culture and political issues. It also includes a video gallery and a large photographic gallery with more than 300 photographs. Both text and audiovisual material come together with the help of the latest trends in multimedia, generating an indispensable tool for those wishing either to expand their knowledge on Cyprus or simply get acquainted with the island of Aphrodite.