1. Cafés in Cyprus The Cypriots traditionally socialized in the small coffee shops or ‘kafenia’ of the villages and of the cities. This was at first a privilege that only men could enjoy, since it wasn't 'proper' for a woman to be involved in such social activities, so women were having their coffees in their yards or living rooms. These local coffee houses where the centre of the social life of the villages and of the neighbourhoods of the big cities for everybody that went there since it was not usual not to go to the kafenia at least once a day. There people discussed local matters, gossiped and off course they argued on hot political issues. Along with the traditional 'kafenia', in the 50s and 60s more and more confectionary shops opened up in the cities where people would go with their families and enjoy various sweets that they could not have at the coffee shops. The coffee shops served only a type of Turkish coffee without spices (which is unique in Cyprus), Turkish delights, sweetened fruits (‘glika tou koutaliou’) and over time they also served some soft drinks. In the 50’s and 60’s the “kafenia” in the big villages were separated to left and right wing coffee shops which also acted as local gatherings of people with similar ideology, a phenomenon still present in most villages. Katerina Karatzia

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