What’s the most important thing Cyprus teaches you?

Live here long enough, and this lesson is inevitable…

Cyprus teaches you a lot of lessons, doesn’t it?

It teaches you patience. To wrangle with the Land Registry when officials assure you the paperwork that’s right there in your hand is missing.

It teaches you flexibility. To sigh and light a candle when another rolling power cut takes out the new season of Bridgerton.

And it teaches you the fine art of adaptation. How to reorganise your entire week for a plumber who never shows.