Embassy of the Netherlands in Cyprus

🚲 World Bicycle Day 2026! 🌍

✨ Today, we explored Nicosia on two wheels during a fantastic Ride & Bite with and friends!

Cycling isn’t just a sport 🤯 …

…it’s also a sustainable, healthy, and enjoyable way to commute.

Let’s choose two wheels over four and help create better, safer and greener alternatives!

🚲 Ride & Bite 2026 🍴

To celebrate World Bicycle Day 2026, OPU Collective and the Dutch Embassy invite you to a relaxed evening bike ride through Nicosia!

Join us on 3 June for a fun “Ride & Bite” (or as we say in Dutch: Happen & Trappen 😉) with good food, drinks, and great company while exploring the city by bike.

We’ll stop at different venues along the route, with tasty vegetarian bites and drinks waiting along the way 🌿

📍 Start: OPU House
🕠 Time: 17:30
📅 Date: 3 June 2026

Bring your friends, family, kids - everyone is welcome!

⚠️ Registration is required and spaces are limited.
You can find more information and the registration form via the link in our Instagram bio.

Don’t have a bike? Reach out to via Instagram!

See you on the streets 🚴✨

🇳🇱🧡 King’s Day 2026!🧡🇳🇱

✨Last Thursday May 7, we celebrated King’s Day at the remembrance of the birthday of His Majesty The King Willem-Alexander.

We were happy with the presence of our guest of honour Minister !

We would like to thank and .panteli for their wonderful musical performance, bridging the Netherlands and Cyprus as they are also both Dutch Alumni! 🎓🎷🎶

Thanks to all of our colleagues, friends, and members of the Dutch community in Cyprus who joined us!

📸And last but not least kudos to for the great pictures!

🕊️Today, on 5 May, we celebrate the absence of war, the restoration of the constitutional state after the Second World War and the fact that it enables us to live in freedom. Festivities are held throughout the Netherlands over the course of the day.

Today, May 4th, it is Remembrance Day.

During the national commemoration of Remembrance Day we remember all – civilians and soldiers – who have been killed or murdered in the Kingdom of the Netherlands or anywhere else in the world in war situations or during peacekeeping operations since the outbreak of the Second World War.

✨Today our ambassador was invited to talk in a panel discussion on local change and sustainable urban mobility!

🚲 “Riding a bicycle isn’t in our DNA” said. The switch from a car dominated urban space to a pedestrian and cyclist friendly city needs activists who claim back the public space: That’s what we learned from the the big change that happened in the Netherlands in the 1970s, through which we became a bike dominated nation!

🌱Safer and more climate friendly ways of transportation are needed, the demand for change is out there! Now it’s up to the support of local and national policymakers to make this change actually happen!