For the author Andrea Busfield, her life in the town of Peyia in western Cyprus has been in sharp contrast to the claustrophobic existence of many of her friends in the UK over the past year. She has lived on the eastern Mediterranean island for nine years after stints in London, Afghanistan, Qatar and Austria.
“Having two horses, I spend much of the day outdoors in the sunshine — it has been a very mild winter,” she says of hours spent on Sea Caves beach below the town. “Though the bars and restaurants are closed, and there’s a 9pm curfew, I feel no great loss of freedom. It would be churlish to feel hard done by when you are riding a beautiful horse by the
