Today was the perfect end to this wonderful experience. We set off at 9 am to St. Minas Monastery right before heading to a gorgeous village called Lefkara. St. Minas was a very peaceful experience that left room for reflection, which I really enjoyed. The outside was serene and filled with gorgeous plants and flowers,…
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Day 10: Ahoy Matey!
Today was our last day of site visits. We visited Berhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM), Columbia Group, and Medochemie, which is a pharmaceutical company. We visited the BSM Maritime Training Center Cyprus to be exact. Here, they have a mock ‘ship’ where cadets come from all around the world to learn the basics of being a…
Day 9: Fix it Felix!
Today was another jam-packed day. We visited Vassiliko Cement Works, VTTI, and the Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute, plus short visits to St. Lazarus Church and Hala Sultan Teke, which is actually the third most important pilgrimage in the Muslim faith, behind Mecca and Medina. Today, I’m just going to be talking about Vassiliko, though….
Day 8: Cranes, Cars, and Containers
We spent the first half of our day at Limassol’s New Port, where we had 4 presentations. Our first presentation was with the Cyprus Ports Authority (CPA). Limassol Port is the largest commercial port in Cyprus and its jurisdiction extends over all port areas, except the closed ports of Northern Cyprus. Famagusta port used to…
Day 7: Birth, Life, and Death
This morning we started our day with a photo stop at Aphrodite’s rock, which is said to have been the place where the goddess was born, where she emerged from sea foam. It was an uncharacteristically cloudy day to start, and out tour guide actually told us that it was because they were clouds of…
Day 6: It was the Best of Times, It was the Worst of Times
Today was my favorite day yet. It was rich and history, perfectly mixed with a beautiful, refreshing beach day. We started the day heading an hour and a half to Famagusta, which is a Turkish occupied city in Northern Cyprus. It kind of threw me off guard that my Verizon device and bank considered this…
Day 5: Hello from the Other Side (of Cyprus)
After a very long, exhausting final day in Nicosia yesterday, today we departed and came to Limassol, which is in the South Coast of Cyprus, which was about 1.5 hours away. We started off in Kourion which is an archaeological site a couple of minutes from Limassol. It was fascinating and just thinking about the…
Day 3: On Wednesdays, We Play War Games and Close Down Our Shops
Today was another busy day! We started off by going on a site visit to Wargaming, which is a game development and supply company, with free-to play games on many platforms, ranging from mobile, to PC, to console. Their most popular game is World of Tanks, but they also have World of Warships, World of…
Day 2: That’s that Me Nespresso
We started Day 2 by going on a site visit to Vassos Eliades Ltd. (VEL), which is one of the oldest and largest import and trading centers/companies in Cyprus with over 400 employees. VEL handles food (Nestlé), luxury goods (Cartier, OMEGA, Swarovski), and sports goods (StairMaster, NordicTrack). As soon as we arrived, I felt immediately…
Day 1: Cats, Cuisine, and a Crossroads of Culture
After a very long few travel days, we finally made it to Cyprus at 2 am! The hotel is quite nice and comfortable and I got some much needed sleep, which helped power me through the first half of today. We learned some valuable info/basics of the country and some expectations, as well as a…
Shipping Off to Cyprus: Introducing Me
Hi! I’m Ali Beddall and I am a freshman in Pitt Business, looking to major in marketing + something else that I’m not quite of sure of yet. I am from a small town in Central PA on the Susquehanna River called Selinsgrove, which is about 40 minutes north of Harrisburg. At Pitt, I am…