'My neighbour asked if I was sick when he saw me on the street walking my dog'

'My neighbour asked if I was sick when he saw me on the street walking my dog'

What you don’t want to hear is that putting the foundation of my new life in Paphos (Cyprus) in place turns out to be one of the most exhausting experiences of my life. What you don’t want to hear is that happy stories are often preferred when someone moves to a new world, as I do from Amsterdam (the Netherlands). The Insta-perfect photographs of places overlooking the Mediterranean, and the reassuring idea that leaving one country for another i…