Richard I’s conquest of Cyprus was purely accidental. He was actually on his way to Palestine on the Third Crusade to recover Jerusalem when his ships were caught in a storm and were shipwrecked of Cyprus. Richard’s sister and bride-to-be were taken prisoner and he had to go to rescue them.

Things that you never would have guessed about this little island country.

On Turkey, Iraq, and Cyprus.

Cyprus’ links with Russia go back to the days of the Crimea War. It’s links help maintain its independence. Today Cyprus has the only Communist president in the EU.

How Cyprus bid to free itself from hundreds of years’ of occupation before the Turkish invasion in 1974.

A true life story of a group of Showmen who took a funfair to Cyprus in 1999. It turned out to be an adventure.