Traditional Cypriot music drifts across Zygi harbour, ice cream melts in children’s hands, and crowds gather in anticipation of the Kataklysmos aquatic games. I arrive just as the event begins, eager to enjoy the traditions of the Flood Festival and experience the revival of customs celebrated in pre-1974 Kyrenia. For the past three years, the municipalities of Kyrenia, Lapithos and Karava with the communities of the Kyrenia district and the
