Profile: Claire

Action woman in North Cyprus attempting different sports for articles in the local paper

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Hooker for the day!
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

Posted at 01:09pm on 10th May 2007

Taking to the waves
By Claire

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

Posted at 03:34pm on 8th May 2007

Skiing in Cyprus
By Claire

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

Posted at 03:26pm on 8th May 2007

Under the sea
By Claire

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

Posted at 03:14pm on 8th May 2007

Eighteen hands
By Claire

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

Posted at 02:48pm on 8th May 2007