Cyprus Hash Details

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Hashing in Cyprus

Polygon H3 was set up in the third, (and much smaller) British base in Cyprus, Agios Nicolaos by a pair of hashers who were pissed off by the idea of not being able to take their wives or girlfriends hashing. . Why Polygon? The base at Ay Nik is roughly shaped like a polygon! Poly celebrated their 800th run in January 1997. They are an open and family hash, but like other hashes of military origins, find their numbers shrinking as the British forces in Cyprus shrink slowly.

Larnaca and Amathus were set up within two weeks of each other, quite independently with Larnaca beating Amathus to it by a shorthead in late May, 1987. Larnaca H3 were first based in a pub called the Railway, which has since closed down. Their initial mainstays were a bunch of telecom/software engineers who were based here. Their current senior veteran is George Whiteman, founder of Little Sai Wan and Scarborough H3s and now retired here. After the software project closed down George carried Larnaca pretty well on his shoulders for some years until they built up a community of their own. They are a very family oriented hash (clean names, #1 on Flying Boogers Hash Scale) but continue to thrive and regularly muster 40+. They are in the practice of regrouping at every check, which makes for slowish runs.

Nicosia started up a year later in 1988, founded by Duncan Kirby among others, and have the largest number of Cypriots running with them (about 50%). They are a hard running hash with the usual dip. corps contingent found in any capital city hash. They run Tuesday nights. All details can be found on their webpage (see Hash Contacts below ).
The terrain in Cyprus is basically Mediterranean scrub with small hills and valleys. Temperature ranges from about 12 C and wet/windy in Jauary/February, up to 38 C and bakingly hot in August.

.  Note: For all contacts, check on the individual hash page, if there is one.