Cyprus
Paphos Municipality
Aphrodite Promised Eternal Youth. My Midlife Crisis Was Listening.
Aug 4, 2026 • 22 min read
Sixty-one hours across Cyprus, with Aphrodite negotiations, Roman mosaics, a shipwreck, banana groves, impossible blues, suspicious greens and cocktails that appeared to have escaped from a laboratory. Middle age did not announce itself with a sports car, an inappropriate tattoo or the sudden conviction that I should learn electric guitar. It arr