Recent blogs by Claire
Over the years I’ve paced hundreds of rugby pitch touchlines; I’ve lost count of the number of Six Nations, Internationals and World Cup - my claim to fame is I once played Paintballl with the Sou
The sport of wakeboarding had caught my eye last year when the Wake Up Northern Cyprus competition was being advertised. However, it wasn’t until friends of mine bought their own boat and board, tha
The warmest day of this year so far and yet within an hour and a half of leaving Catalkoy, I was actually walking on snow! The Cyprus Ski Club is located on Mount Olympus in the Troodos mountain rang
Next on my list in the Action Woman series was Scuba Diving, so I approached Turtle Bay Dive Centre based at the Sempati Hotel in Lapta, to see what they suggested. The Discover Scuba course was the a
I seem to remember being on a horse a couple of times in my life when I was about 11, it obviously wasn’t something that I had felt passionately about, as I don’t remember begging my mother if I c
Clay pigeon shooting
By Claire
Guns are not something I have ever taken a great deal of interest in, thinking of them as weapons designed to kill and very dangerous, especially in the wrong hands. Like many people here in Cyprus, I
With the visit to North Cyprus of two British boxers and the chance to spar with them, it would have been a shame not to take them up on the offer, so I decided to try my hand at a spot of boxing. Ma
Our very own Action Womanl Claire Morley embarks on a new occasional series for Cyprus Today, seeking out various sporting activities available here in Cyprus and reporting back on her experiences whi
Paragliding “Ok, so once we are harnessed up, we take a few steps down a gentle slope, to fill the wing with air then we’re away. It’s as simple as that!� My pilot Ozgur Gokasan explained t
Action woman goes mountain biking!
By Claire
I have a mountain bike, although to be honest it hasn’t really been put to much use here and in Edinburgh, where I lived before Cyprus, I rode it more on the cycle paths rather than down mountainsid
