Episode 2 | Mediterranean with Simon Reeve

Duration: 58'57''

Synopsis

Setting off from a snowy mountain ski resort in Cyprus, Simon Reeve finds an island and a capital city still deeply divided between Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots.

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