Living In The Real Cyprus

Nonfiction, Travel, Europe
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Author: Vic Heaney ISBN: 9781624880384
Publisher: BookBaby Publication: September 23, 2012
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Vic Heaney
ISBN: 9781624880384
Publisher: BookBaby
Publication: September 23, 2012
Imprint:
Language: English
Cyprus ticks all the boxes. Sun. Sea. Cheap food and drink. Friendly, smiling people. How would you like to live there? Is this island heaven too good to be true? Surely there can be no darker side? Is there no lingering resentment from the colonial period and the bitter and vicious guerrilla war which ended it? What happens when Vic and his wife Gay come into contact with the real Cyprus, away from the garish, overdeveloped tourist resorts? They quickly find people even more friendly and generous than in the towns, although less likely to speak English. But they also discover terrible cruelty to animals; winter weather worse than tourists are led to believe; snakes, dangerous driving and earthquakes; hunters, armed to the teeth, excited and trigger happy; institutionalised hatred between Greek and Turkish Cypriots; racism and sexual exploitation of women tricked into coming to Cyprus from abroad. Is paradise lost? Vic and Gay lived in Cyprus for 8 years while researching for this book which reveals how one only scratches the surface of a place when spending a holiday there and how one learns little of a country and its people in such a short stay.
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Cyprus ticks all the boxes. Sun. Sea. Cheap food and drink. Friendly, smiling people. How would you like to live there? Is this island heaven too good to be true? Surely there can be no darker side? Is there no lingering resentment from the colonial period and the bitter and vicious guerrilla war which ended it? What happens when Vic and his wife Gay come into contact with the real Cyprus, away from the garish, overdeveloped tourist resorts? They quickly find people even more friendly and generous than in the towns, although less likely to speak English. But they also discover terrible cruelty to animals; winter weather worse than tourists are led to believe; snakes, dangerous driving and earthquakes; hunters, armed to the teeth, excited and trigger happy; institutionalised hatred between Greek and Turkish Cypriots; racism and sexual exploitation of women tricked into coming to Cyprus from abroad. Is paradise lost? Vic and Gay lived in Cyprus for 8 years while researching for this book which reveals how one only scratches the surface of a place when spending a holiday there and how one learns little of a country and its people in such a short stay.

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