Poison for rats.

  If you see this strange design thing on the ground, know that here is poison for rats. Inside this tube placed poisoned food. It is also dangerous for dogs and cats to catch poisoned rats.

Do you know what is small oval mandarin?

    Only on my third year in Cyprus I opened kumquat, from Сhinese language it means"golden apple". Once I bought it and thought that it was some kind of mandarins, tried to peel it. It is not necessary to clean it, you have to eat it with its skin, which is sweet. It looks like small oval mandarin, usually the price in Cyprus supermarkets near 4 Euro per kg.

Where to buy accessories for sewing and knitting in Limassol?

Some simple things for sewing and knitting you can find in the special Zako shops. There are several of them in every town of Cyprus. Also this net is selling underwear, that why in its windows you can see only pants, shirts, pajamas, bras. It may be confused you.

This shop is located on Griva Digeni strret, not far from Shoebox shop.

GPS coordinates: 34.693069, 33.064148

How to buy car in UK on-line?

First you can go to the biggest trading place www.autotrader.co.uk and try to find what do you want.In the upper left corner place the postcode of Southampton SO14 3QN and distance within 100 miles.

Southampton has been the UK's leading port for vehicle exports in recent years, it has four multi-storey car park type storage facilities. From this port your car will be shipped to Cyprus. Usually for  distance less then 100 miles you don't need to pay extra money for delivery to port.

1. Buy your car from dealer, don't do it with private seller.
2. Don't hesitate, ask the seller to show you all scratches, some of them are ready to go to the car with web-camera.
3.After you find what do you want, check the plate number in some verification system. The service is not free, but this is your warranty to know all history, real mileage, all calls to insurance company and financial status. 

Here in Cyprus you have to chose the shipping company for delivery, the approximate coast of delivery is 1000 - 1200 Euro, it will be included insurance and custom service. Additional payments depend of distance from port, in case of bad weather you have to pay for parking in the port.

Don't forget! In Cyprus you need to pay custom duty and registered fee.
The calculation of the excise duty for vehicles

For example:

A used petrol sedan vehicle is 9 months old at the time of its transfer to Cyprus from the United Kingdom and it has a mileage of 22.500 km. The cubic capacity of its engine is 1.789 CC and the carbon dioxide emissions are 184 gr/km.
The excise duty payable is initially calculated on the basis of a new vehicle and is thereafter depreciated based on the characteristics of the used vehicle:

• Initial excise duty (based on a new car with CO2 emissions of 180 gr/km): €2.250 + (4 x €400) = €3.850
• Excise duty differentiations for the used car of the example:
• 18.50% reduction on the initial excise duty because of the vehicle age (9 months) and type (sedan): €3.850 x 18,50% = €712
• 4,5% reduction on the remaining amount (€3.850 – €712 = €3.138) because of kilometers travelled over the corresponding estimated average for a petrol vehicle ((22.500–(15.000/12*9) = 22.500 – 11.250 = 11.250 km, 11.250/500 x 0.20% = 4.5%): €3.138 x 4,5% = €141
• Additional excise duty €0.02/c.c.: 1789 Χ €0.02 = €36
• Total excise duty payable: €3.850 – €712 – €141 + €36 = €3.033

Dance Studio Credo

   If you are looking dance studio for your daughter, I would like to recommend a school Credo with its founder and owner Svetlana Mattheou. The school was opened in Limassol in the year 2005. It offers jazz and modern, classic dance, gymnastics, Go-Go for adults. I liked its timetable, it is convenient  to working parents. The classes start not very early.

 The studio is located in center of Limassol, opposite the post office on Griva Digeny.

Address:  36 Griva Digeni Street, Agios Nikolas area, Limassol, Cyprus, 3106.

Tel:  +357 99 487077,  +357 25 580537

Dance Studio Credo
 GPS coordinates: 34.689069, 33.057550

Be careful with the information in LIDL's leaflets.

This mistake I found for the offer Thursday 22nd January 2015.
LIDL has no responsibility for printing errors or omissions.
I was going to buy 100% cotton bedlinen, but in the store was appeared that there is 60% cotton and 40% polyester.

Still I bought this set, because long time I was looking for this color.

Set for cooking Duchess.

 Sorry, but today I don't give you some info about Limassol, we will speak about sweets.  

I am sure that you have already eaten the famous Cyprus cake which is called Duchess.

Today I tell you how to make it from ready set, which includes biscuits, chocolate powder and vermichelle, additionally you need 2 eggs, butter and milk.

 First melt the butter into the milk, then put eggs and powder mixture from the set. Stir well, finish when it becomes heavy. Add biscuits and put into the form for jelly.

You can eat it after 4-5 hours.

Of course, you can find instruction with exact measurements on the box.