The letter
Dear neighbour,
I run a company from Aphrodite Hills, and I wanted to know who else around here runs one. Nobody had counted, so I went through the company register for the district, one company at a time.
114 companies trade within a few kilometres of my desk, in eighteen different trades, run by about 127 people. 66 of them have no website. Most of the people behind them have never met, because nothing here gives them a reason to.
So a few times a year I put twelve of them round one table for dinner. Twelve, because past that a table breaks into separate conversations. Different trades, on purpose. Everyone gets two or three questions beforehand and we go round the table on them.
There is no fee and nobody sells anything, me included. What is said stays at the table.
If you own or run a company that trades around here, I would like to hear from you. If you know someone who should be at the table, tell me about them instead.
Amos
Tevelis Limited, HE 492969
Adonis, Aphrodite Hills
In drawings
An evening
- Twelve places
- One table, picked from a wider group so the trades are mixed. Most people sit out any given dinner.
- Four rules
- Nothing leaves with a name attached. Talk about your own experience. Everyone gets the same time. Nobody sells. I read them out at the start.
- Two or three questions
- Chosen in advance, so there is time to answer properly. We go round the table with a timer.
- One name
- At the end I ask each guest for one more person who should be there. The people who were at the table have a say before I invite them.
The questions
- What first made you believe this company might actually work?
- What did you spend your first serious amount of company money on?
- Which early assumption about running a company proved wrong first?
Who trades here
- Construction and trades17
- Retail and e-commerce14
- Hospitality and food11
- Automotive and transport10
- Real estate and property management9
- Marketing, media and creative8
- Technology and software8
- Tourism, leisure and sport6
- Home services6
- Health, wellness and beauty5
- Professional services5
- Events and entertainment4
- Energy and environment3
- Finance and investment3
- Agriculture and fishing2
- Yachting and marine1
- Education and childcare1
- Manufacturing and industrial1
The eighteen trades on the company register within a few kilometres of
Aphrodite Hills: 114 operating businesses out of 267 registered
entities, counted by hand in September 2026 from the register of the
Cyprus Department of the Registrar of Companies (CC BY 4.0). These are
the district, not a member list.
What it is not
No fee. No presentations. Nobody selling, me included. No published guest list, no thirty-second introductions, no attendance rules.
If you want a steady flow of local referrals, BNI has a Paphos chapter set up for exactly that. This is something else. I read every request myself, and most don’t lead to an invitation straight away, because a table only seats twelve.
Asked often
- Who is Aphrodite Circle for?
- Owners, founders and senior executives of a company that trades in or around Aphrodite Hills or the wider Paphos district in Cyprus. It does not matter where you live, whether you own or rent, or how many months of the year you are here. There is no minimum revenue or headcount.
- What does it cost?
- There is no fee, no membership and no contract. The table splits the bill. A firm in company formation, banking, tax or immigration may sponsor an evening later, and if so that is said at the table and the sponsor follows the same rules. If the host could earn an introducer fee from an introduction, the person being introduced is told before they act on it.
- How does a dinner work?
- Twelve people sit at one round table, a few times a year, in or near Aphrodite Hills. Everyone gets two or three questions in advance and goes round the table on them with a timer. Nobody presents and nobody sells. At the end each guest is asked for one more name.
- What is said at a dinner, and what stays there?
- The Chatham House Rule applies, in its actual wording: you may use what you hear, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker, nor of any other participant, may be revealed. Everyone agrees to it out loud at each dinner. The guest list is not published or shared.
- How do I get invited?
- Ask for an introduction using the form. The host reads every request personally, talks to you before anything else, and checks with the people who have already sat at the table. You then come to one dinner as a guest, and afterwards you both decide whether to carry on. Most requests do not lead to an invitation straight away, because a table seats twelve and each one is mixed across trades.
- Who runs it, and is it connected to Aphrodite Hills Resort?
- Amos Weiskopf runs it, through his company Tevelis Limited, which is registered at Adonis in Aphrodite Hills. It is independent: it is not affiliated with Aphrodite Hills Resort Ltd, Aphrodite Hills Realty, Aphrodite Hills Resort or the Aphrodite Hills Residents Association. The name comes from the goddess Aphrodite, who is said to have risen from the sea at Petra tou Romiou nearby.
Ask for a seat
Thanks, it has arrived.
I will read it myself.
If it looks like a fit, I will get in touch to arrange a proper conversation first. If you don’t hear from me, the answer is no for now. That happens a lot, and it usually has more to do with who is already coming than with you.
If it looks like a fit, I will come back to you about an introduction. I have not written to them.