Pat Yale is the author of Retiring to Cyprus. An ex-travel agent and lecturer in travel and tourism, she has been a full-time travel writer since 1990.

Pat first visited Cyprus in 1994 and has been popping back ever since. Born in London, she lived in Bristol for many years before moving to Cappadocia in Turkey where she now lives in a restored cave-house with a multitude of cats. She has worked on many guidebooks for Lonely Planet and Holiday Which? as well as writing several textbooks for travel and tourism students. She is also the author of A Handbook for Living in Turkey which offers advice to expats following in her own footsteps.