Pegeia, perched on a hillside overlooking the sea, is known for the fountains in its picturesque village square, a beautiful construction with typical arches, where women used to meet in days gone by in order to wash their clothes and fetch water. The village itself is renowned for its spectacular views, while the coastline below has one of the best sandy beaches of the Pafos region at Coral Bay, which each year is awarded with a Blue Flag for its bathing water quality. If you love culture and history, stop off at the church of Agios Georgios and admire some superb examples of Byzantine art in the form of a 6th century basilica complex with extensive panels of geometric and animal floor mosaics, rare in Christian iconography. Or visit Maa-Paleokastro, the site, on a peninsula near Coral Bay, where the Mycenaean Greeks first landed in Cyprus in the Bronze Age.

Private stocked trout water, sporting clays, bird hunting, youth biking, hiking, fly-fishing, and cross country skiing are all available with full supplies. Reservations are required.

Only a short twenty-five minute drive from Saint-Hippolyte, find solace and relaxation at this most reputable thermotherapy spa. Decorated Japanese-style, Ofuro Spa proudly calls itself “the most ZEN spa”, offering a truly regenerative experience. Forget the world outside, and sink into a tranquil release using their dry saunas, steam rooms, temperate baths, and, of course, indulge in a most-needed massage.

A visit at Karensminde Agricultural Museum feels like stepping into another age. Here work is done as in the heydays of the farm back in the 18th and 19th centuries. The whole family can lend a helping hand when it is time to harvest, dig up potatoes or help milk the cow. In the meantime food is being prepared on the old woodstove. At Karensminde you can get very close to the animals. Help shear the sheep or collect the eggs in the chicken run. Have a look around the stables. On the green meadow you can say hello to the goat and geese. The rabbits are lying comfortably in their cages, while the cat sneaks a nap in a hay stack. When the big horses are harnessed to the wagon you can have a drive around the countryside in the old horse-drawn carriage. All year there are activities for the whole family on Karensminde. Enjoy making wooden toys in the wood workshop, make patterns on fabric with carved potatoes, paint eggs or lend a helping hand in the kitchen when soup or marmalade is made. You are welcome to bring a picnic basket and have lunch in the beautiful surroundings or buy a cup of coffee and a piece of cake in the small shop.