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As you aged you cared less and less about what others thought of you, and only then could you be more free.
THE HAPPY FIG MENU Our cuisine is a mixture of the many cultures who have inhabited this heavenly island throughout the centuries. Our food is fresh, our wine is old and our recipes timeless. We are a family here – a family that gives, shares, listens, sings, laughs, cries, forgives and, most importantly, appreciates good food. Enjoy! Y & Y Appetizers Baba Ghanoush with Tahini Yellow Split Pea Fava (served on flatbread) Stuffed Bell Peppers (Dolmadakia/Dolma) Stuffed Courgette Flowers with a Surprise Inside Minced Meat and Rice Wrapped in Vine Leaves Soups Crushed Sour Wheat Soup
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‘What’s temptation?’ ‘It’s like when I give you a chocolate bar and ask you not to eat it until the next day, and you put it in the drawer, but then you open the drawer, just to check if it’s still there, and you think, “Why can’t I take a bite?” And you end up scoffing all of it. That’s temptation.’
either.’ ‘I didn’t buy it, if that helps,’ said Meryem.
Arriving there is what you are destined for, But do not hurry the journey at all … ‘Oh,
adore this island, don’t get me wrong, but sometimes I wish we lived in a place where there was snow!’
Cyprus was known in antiquity as ‘the green island’, famous for its dense, mysterious forests. The absence of trees was a powerful rebuke to the dreadful mistakes of the past.
The human mind was the strangest place, both home and exile. How could it hold on to something as elusive and intangible as a scent when it was capable of erasing concrete chunks of the past, block by block?
‘How about we make a deal?’ said Kostas. ‘I keep making you toasties and you stop worrying about me.’
