Cyprus: the loneliest island?

Cyprus is quite alone.

Not on the map; cartographically speaking, we’re surrounded. Turkey lies just 75 kilometres away. Syria is 100km distant. Egypt just a little further.

Here’s the bit where people always say, knowingly, “ah ha! Cyprus is the crossroads of continents!” And, geographically speaking, they’re right – if rather annoying.

Culturally, though, we’re a little isolated. Because, while Cyprus is undoubtedly a melting pot of peoples, its cultural orientation has long been Hellenic.