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[Southerner]

The most common miss-pronunciation for Paphos back in the UK is Pathos.

[Natty]

Best English to Greek spelling I have ever seen is ‘Choiroikitia’ (or something like that) for the village ‘Hirokitia‘. Why they couldn't just spell it like I have just baffles me, it sounds a lot more like the Greek name..

[devil]

The most common miss-pronunciation for Paphos back in the UK is Pathos.

That's just a Freudian slip! With all the Brits about, it is pathetic (and before you jump down my throat, I am a Brit myself, but wild horses wouldn't drag me to live within a 30 km radius of Paphos)

[webbo]

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And eye can put the error rite Its rare lea ever wrong.
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[Get Real!]

..but wild horses wouldn't drag me to live within a 30 km radius of Paphos)

Same here Devil, I don't know what makes so many Brits want to go and live there...

[kafenes]

..but wild horses wouldn't drag me to live within a 30 km radius of Paphos)

Same here Devil, I don't know what makes so many Brits want to go and live there...

Have you both ever lived in Paphos? or just visited.

[twinkle]

The Cypriots are in the minority in the Paphos region. Brits go there because of other Brits. They feel comforted by a Colonial way of life.

[devil]

The Cypriots are in the minority in the Paphos region. Brits go there because of other Brits. They feel comforted by a Colonial way of life.

And is that not exactly what I mean? I often cringe with shame when I see my fellow-Brits on this island and the cringing increases when I hear them. Some of them have no idea of the niceties of life or respect for the feelings of Cypriots. One example I witnessed last week at a city-centre bank: an English couple of a certain age walked in and went to the desk next to where I was transacting. He announced in loud, arrogant tones tinged with a Home Counties accent, that he wanted to open an account as he was coming to live here. His visible dress: one pair of shorts, one sunhat and one pair of sandals, no shirt. Hers: one pair of shorts with rolls of fat bulging over the top, one sun-top three sizes too small for her revolting obese body, one sunhat and one pair of flip-flops. She also had a bra, as I could see the straps and her skin was bright red from over-exposure to the sun. In my books, this was totally inappropriate for a bank, especially to conduct new business. Another example, a couple came into a city-near-centre restaurant at about 2030, wearing shorts. The owner, good luck to him, bore down on them and said that he was sorry but he could not serve evening meals to them as their dress might offend his other clients. And how often, in the Paphos area, does one see signs in restaurants about dress code - but only in English, never in Greek!

[Southerner]

The Cypriots are in the minority in the Paphos region. Brits go there because of other Brits. They feel comforted by a Colonial way of life.

Very few Brits alive today had experience of the colonial way of life, most of those that are alive were there with the military and not in the civil/diplomatic service.
Most people like myself have lived a full life worked hard and many have also had military service and enjoyed overseas postings such as Cyprus.
We didn't return to Cyprus for 31 years (1998) after my posting in Cyprus ended, we decided there and then that this is the place that we would like to retire to. Our aim is to by a house in a Cypriot area not on a developement with communial swimming pool.
The Paphos area is such a good and pleasant environment compared to Eastern Cyprus which reminded us so much of Eastern Turkey

[Svetlana]

I wonder how many people who have so many bad things to say about Paphos have spent 'significant' time there - i don't just mean a few visits to tourist locations.

Yes, we have the badly dressed (mainly tourists), the occasion ill mannered and plenty of gossips, but it is still a very fine location to live.
This is why most people wanting to spend a holiday or to relocate to Cyprus, choose Paphos.

To suggest foreigners outnumber Cypriots, in Paphos is crazy!

The major downside are the Timeshare Touts, but I must not take this thread too far Off Topic, or the Moderator will be after me!

Lana