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Tour
of North Nicosia. Monday, Wednesday and Friday weekly.
Conducted walking tour of North Nicosia. Meet 10.00 at the Kyrenia
Gate, or 10.30 at the Lokmaci crossing point.
More information. (Back to top)
Kyrenia
Market. Wednesday weekly.
Kyrenia municipal open air market. Here you will find fantastic
value on a vast range of goods, especially fruit, vegetables,
cheeses, yoghurts, oils and vinegars (often brought in from the
country by farming families), fish, footwear, clothing and all sorts
of odds and ends. (Back to top)
Famagusta Market. Friday weekly.
Here you can buy about everything you might need; clothing,
household items, flowers, fish and fresh fruit and vegetables. You
can also buy freshly pressed olive oil there, mostly made by the
vendor itself (and it does come very often in re-used bottles of
J&B, Bells or Teachers!). (Back to top)
Guzelyurt Market. Saturday weekly.
Everything from clothes, shoes, nuts, sweets, olive oil,
honey, home made cheese as well as fruit and vegetables are sold.
Produce is fresh, and local people are encouraged to sell the excess
from their own gardens. The market opens early, and continues till
about 1pm. It is situated on the main street opposite the museum and
church. (Back to top)
Friends Coffee Morning.
1st, 2nd 3rd and Last Wednesdays.
11am. Friends of those in Need coffee morning. The first 3
Wednesdays of the month will be at Ginko Restaurant, Namik Kemal
Square, Famagusta and is a social meeting. On the Last Wednesday,
it will be a fund-raising meeting at the Terrace Beach bar, Bogaz.
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Carpenters Market. Friday weekly.
Carpenters Craft & Farmers market, Karaoglanoglu. 10am to 1pm.
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Pegasos Market. Friday weekly.
Pegasos Friday market, Karaoglanoglu. The original Friday market.
10am - 2pm (Back to top)
Lambousa Market. Saturday weekly.
Chateau Lambousa Arts and Crafts Fair. 10am to 2.30pm (or later).
Stallholders include homebaked pastries and pies, homemade jams and
marmalades. CDs, DVDs and book stalls. A variety of clothing and
jewellery, antiques, paintings, sculptures and other arts and
crafts. (Back to top)
Children's Film Show. Saturday weekly.
2pm. Free film screenings for children (age 9 and up) at
Sidestreets, Nicosia. The films are sometimes in English, sometimes
Turkish. For information phone 0392 22 93070/71. Sidestreets is past
the post office, and opposite the law courts. (Back to top)
Church Services, Every Sunday.
Both the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches are represented
in North Cyprus. Sunday services are as follows.
St Andrew’s Church, Kyrenia (Anglican)
8am. Communion.
10am. Family Eucharist and Sunday School.
2pm. Turkish language service. (Held in the church hall)
5.30pm. Cyprus International Fellowship
5.30pm. 2nd Sunday, Communion at the Hermitage chapel
5.30pm, 4th Sunday, Evening prayer at the Hermitage chapel
St Mark’s Anglican Chaplaincy, Famagusta.
9.30am. Held at the Bogaz Hotel
11am. Communion (Except 1st Sunday, Morning Praise) Held at the Old
Greek St George church, Salamis Road.
5.30pm.Praise & Worship (Except 1st Sunday, Communion) Held at the
Old Greek St George church, Salamis Road.
St Elizabeth of Hungary R.C. Church, Kyrenia
12 Noon. Mass (Back to Top)
9am to 1pm, Paradise restaurant and sports bar. (Behind the
Ozankoy Lemar). Books, hand made greeting cards, hand
made Turkish Cypriot souvenirs, plants, toys, clothing, shoes,
English jams, preserves, pickles, bric-a-brac, carpets,
haberdashery, wool, electricals, electronics, pictures, photo., To
set up a stall contact Sandie on 0533 8649195 or 0533 8629416 or
e-mail to
karakumcarboot1@gmail.com (Back to Top)
Pembegul
Market, Every Sunday.
10am - 3pm, Pembegul Garden Centre.
Next to K-Pet petrol garage, Between Bellapais traffic lights &
Bellapais roundabout. A selection of plants, books, shoes, DVDs,
and more. (Back to Top)
Buyukkonuk
Market, Every Sunday.
11am – 4pm., Buyukkonuk village centre, Karpaz. Organised by the
Eco-Tourism Association, the market has handicrafts, traditional
food, and local produce.
Turtle Nesting, June to August.
North Cyprus is one of the few turtle nesting areas in the
Mediterranean. Every year student volunteers study these animals,
and you can join them on one of their overnight expeditions. Numbers
are limited, so it is essential that you pre-book at their
headquarters, “The Goatshed” at Alagadi. For more
information on
turtles and their
nesting, follow the links. Follow their exploits by reading
their
2008 diary, or their
2009 blog. (Back to Top)
112 Quiz night.
Last Monday Monthly.
7.30pm, The Ravine, Alsancak. Quiz night
in aid of the ERB fund. A 15YTL entry fee provides a chance to have
fun, win prizes and enjoy supper. (Back to top)
Ilgaz Ladies Lunch, Last Tuesday
Monthly.
12.30pm for 1pm,
Hoots bar, Ilgaz. A charity fundraising lunch with a different theme
every month. The cost is 25TL, and bottles of
wine are available from 16TL.
Guzelyurt
Orange Festival, 2nd to 18th July.
Programme tba. For more information
about the festival,
follow the link. (Back to Top)
42nd Iskele Folk
Dance Festival, 1st to 11th July.
Entertainment includes folk dancing, song contests, music concerts,
sporting contests, and children's activities. More
information about the festival can be found here.
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Line Dancing Lessons, Mondays
to Thursdays,
October to June
Two groups, Phoenix Line Dance Club, and the Kibris Liners hold line
dancing lessons in the TRNC.
Mondays.
10.30am – 12.30pm, Punjab Restaurant, Lapta. Beginners. Entrance
5TL. (Kibris Liners)
Tuesdays.
10am - noon, Punjab Restaurant, Lapta. Absolute beginners. Entrance
5TL. (Kibris Liners)
Wednesdays.
10.30am – 12.30pm, Punjab Restaurant, Lapta. Intermediate.
Entrance 5TL. (Kibris Liners)
Thursdays.
Phoenix are now having their summer break.
For more information, contact Phoenix on 0533 876 3410, and
Kibris on 0542 883 4422. (Back to Top)
14th Famagusta Arts
and Culture Festival. Postponed till August.
Provisional dates because of local elections.
The programme has yet to be announced. For more
information
about the festival, follow the link. (Back to
Top)
NCCCT Bingo,
Wednesday Afternoons.
A bingo fundraiser for the charity takes place every Wednesday
afternoon at central Kyrenia's Watermill Hotel. Bingo books cost
each player YTL25 at the sessions, with 10% being donated to the
Cancer Charity. All of the remainder goes into the prize fund. (Back
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Dog Beauty
Contest, Sunday 4th July.
Fuar Alani, Lefkosa. A first for Nicosia. Everybody is welcome to
bring their dogs along to this "Dog Beauty Contest". here will be
rewards for the winner and runner-up dogs. Further details tba. (Back
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Kibris Liners end of Season Social, Friday 2nd July.
Punjab Restaurant. Details tba. (Back to Top)
Fashion Show and Ladies’ Lunch, Thursday
1st July.
12.30pm, Club Tropicana, Ozankoy. New and nearly new summer clothing
to be sold in aid of the North Cyprus Cancer Charity Trust (NCCCT).
Tickets cost 20TL, and include a two-course meal. (Back
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Bellapais
Concert, Tuesday 29th June.
8.30pm, Bellapais Abbey. Teachers and students from Lefkosa's Music
Education centre present works from Bach, Vivaldi, Beethoven,
Brahms, Chopin, Rachmaninov and Hollander. Entry free. (Back
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Lambousa
Auction, Saturday 3rd July.
12.30pm, Chateau Lambousa. Viewing this Friday and Saturday from
10am.
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