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Christmas in Cyprus

An incomplete tale of a British man's foray into a traditional Cypriot Christmas.

This is a legacy post from a previous iteration of my site

Published: Dec 26 2025

If you don't know, I'm from the UK (see the tld) - but this year I spent Christmas in Cyprus with my partner and her family! Today is the 26th and I have a bit of downtime before we're off to a boxing day wedding, so I thought I might write something about the differences between a typical Christmas day in the UK[1]

Prelude to the day

The build up to Christmas day for me has historically been a lot of shopping and my Nan stressing about the food and expectations placed upon her. I'm sure this is a far from a unique experience for people


  1. Well, the East of England at least. I can't speak for the whole of the UK, even the whole of England, or even the whole of the East, or event the whole of Essex. Okay so a traditional Christmas in my family home as a child. ↩︎


This might be the most incomplete blog post I ever done did write

#longform #living-life #incomplete #its-been-too-long-i-wont-finish-this

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Marcus Coupland

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