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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.
Get your passes for Cyprus Rally this year
Although passes for Cyprus Rally were sold every year, some people didn’t understand why they would need one. Spectator areas are usually big enough to fit anyone and Service Park does not provide enough entertainment for the masses to go. This year is differen though. WRC.com reports in this news item:
The organisers of this year’s Cyprus Rally have unveiled a dedicated fan facility at one of the most popular spots on the event in a bid to avoid the crowd-congestion problems which forced the second run through the stage to be cancelled last year. The Kelephos Bridge area on Saturday’s SS8 and SS11 will now be pass-only.
The Kelephos Bridge section is one of several watersplashes on the Mediterranean island event, as the cars pass through a ford on the Diarizos River. Facilities at the new pass-only spectator area will feature up-to-date results, live stage commentary and merchandising stands. Tickets for the area must be purchased in advance and will come on a first-come, first-served basis.
Live music in Getonia ton Osmaton
Andrey Shvachko becomes a continuous source of musical events in Nicosia. This time he informs that there will be a live music evening in Getonia ton Osmaton club. There will be two bands. The first one is Jazzmania, from the Nothern Republic of Cyprus. Probably they’ll play jazz, but you can never know for sure. The second band is called OS (and yes, Andrey is a prt of it too). It will play western coast rock-n-roll with hits from such famous bands as Grateful Dead, Chris Rea, Brian Adams, Beatles, and Whitesnake.
The evening program will start at 20:30 and the entrance fee is 5 CYP. The ticket includes food and drinks.
Getonia ton Osmaton is in Aglandjia part of Nicosia, not far from Filoxenia hotel. Andrey will probably provide the detailed map, with instructions on how to find it, a bit later. I’ll post it here if and when he will do so.
Update: Andrey posted the map. Here is the copy for you.
Green line shows the road to follow. Magenta dot represents Zorpas bakery. Blue dot stands for EKO petrol station. Red is for Volksvagen-Audi shop. Cyan dot with an “H” inside shows the Hilton hotel. Orange spot is for the Getonia ton Osmaton club.
Cyprus forums
While many people can afford some sort of Internet connectivity, Cyprus Web is not overloaded with quality websites. There are a few, but things tend to stay simple and outdated. There aren’t that many people communicating onlines, as well. Except maybe for a bunch of kids in different IRC channels.
During the last couple of years, I came across only a handful of forums. I’ll link to all of them from here.
forum.russiancyprus.net – this is the Russian community online. The forum is very active, with lots of members, and threads starting daily. Sometimes the same things are discussed over and over, so it can get boring, but overall – a very nice place if you speak Russian.
rucychi.com/forum – this is another Russian community in Cyprus. Basically, the same people are talking here as in forums above. This forum appeared to keep some competition to the RussianCyprus.net, especially in the area of techonology advancements.
Gamers-Cy.com – this forum is in Greek and English. It startd off as a place to talk about computer games. Than discussions about all sorts of things started to appear and noone was objecting. There are mostly kids and teenagers talking there, so if you are a bit older, it might get boring pretty soon.
Cyprus Forum – a place that I discovered very recently. People talk about all softs of things Cyprus-related – migration, laws, politics, sports, Cyprus problem, etc. Plenty of Cypriots participate, as well as members of other nationalities, both from Cyprus and abroad. Threads are mostly in English, with occasional Greek phrases, which are kindly translated into English by dual-speaking members. It’s a nice place to hang out.
Talk Cyprus – this is much like Cyprus Forum mentioned above. In fact, it forked off Cyprus Forum when some difference of opinions on moderation arised. Less people, but the much less noise too.
If you know of any other forums where people from Cyprus talk, or where Cyprus-related issues are discussed, please let me know via comments and I will update this post.
Update: Added Talk Cyprus.
Follow-up on KSP4
I know that I said that KSP4 is now over and everything, but there are few minor bits that I forgot to mention.
First of all, I said nothing about photo exsibition that took place at the festival. Yes, that’s right, there was a small photo expo with a few really nice images. Anyone could have shown their work and I didn’t pass that chance. It was my official display of images off the Internet. I had 10 pictures up. You can see all of them here. I linked to all of them before, but this way they are easier to see – all together.
Secondly, lots and lots of people were making pictures and videos of the festival. All of these materials are now getting linked to from this thread at forum.russiancyprus.net (skip to pages 3 and 4 for links).