title: Lonely Planet Cyprus (Travel Guide)
author: Lonely Planet
description: Becky is a freelance writer and cultural critic living in Portland, Oregon. For Lonely Planet, she has written about Seattle and the Pacific Northwest, the Great Plains states of the US, parts of England and Wales, and n primarily n Sweden. Becky grew up with a thick book of Swedish fairy tales illustrated by John Bauer, so the deep black forests of Norrland hold particular fascination for her. Hiking through them, she's alert for trolls and tomtes (which, to the untrained eye, look just like big rocks). Though raised in the mountains of Colorado, Becky has been exploring Sweden since childhood, while visiting her grandparents and other relatives in Stockholm and parts north. She's thoroughly hooked on pickled herring and saffron ice cream but has nothing good to say about Swedish beer. About ten years ago, having exhausted the potential of the role of copy editor at an alternative weekly newspaper in Portland, Becky spent the requisite year bumming around Europe on the mega-cheap. This did nothing to quell her urge to run off exploring new places every couple of months; quite the opposite. She has since spent time roaming around in Wales, Scotland, Ireland and England, Beijing, Panama, Mexico, and most of the US. In 2009 Becky rode a 30-year-old Honda SL175 motorcycle from Portland, Ore., to Knoxville, Tenn., with the infamous 555 crew and wrote about the experience for Cycle World magazine. She reviews movies on KBOO 90.7 FM radio in Portland and writes about books, food and miscellany for anyone who lets her. She's the lone female member of the Sang-Froid Riding Club and serves on the Portland Motorcycles &amp; Scooters Citizen Advisory Committee. She has a master's degree in journalism from NYU's Cultural Reporting and Criticism program, and she's currently working on a book about motorcycles and the paradoxical appeal of risk.
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  Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  > PLAN YOUR TRIP
  
  > [Welcome to
  > Cyprus](Lonely_Planet_Cyprus_%28Travel_Gu_split_009.html#filepos17680)
  
  > [Cyprus' Top
  > 18](Lonely_Planet_Cyprus_%28Travel_Gu_split_011.html#filepos22895)
  
  > [Need to
  > Know](Lonely_Planet_Cyprus_%28Travel_Gu_split_029.html#filepos43529)
  
  > [What's New](Lonely_Planet_Cyprus_%28Travel_Gu_split_030.html#filepos57101)
  
  > [If You
  > Like...](Lonely_Planet_Cyprus_%28Travel_Gu_split_031.html#filepos60995)
  
  > [Month by
  > Month](Lonely_Planet_Cyprus_%28Travel_Gu_split_038.html#filepos70054)
  
  > [Itineraries](Lonely_Planet_Cyprus_%28Travel_Gu_split_051.html#filepos85581)
  
  > [Eat & Drink Like a
  > Local](Lonely_Planet_Cyprus_%28Travel_Gu_split_057.html#filepos96480)
  
  > [Life
  > Outdoors](Lonely_Planet_Cyprus_%28Travel_Gu_split_064.html#filepos123085)
  
  > [Tra