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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)
Moon Market.
Saturday weekly.
10am - 3pm. Saturday craft & general market at the Moon
Over Water, Iskele. (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)
Free Concert in Nicosia, every Wednesday,
Thursday and Saturday.
Lefkosa Municipality Chamber Orchestra have free concerts in Lefkosa
every week
Wednesdays
Buyuk Han ( inside ) 11.30am – 1.30pm .
One week the wind trio, the following week the sting trio.
Buyuk Han square :11.30am – 1.30pm.
jazz orchestra.
Thursdays
Buyuk Han ( inside ) 11.30am – 1.30pm.
Pop orchestra.
Saturdays
Buyuk Han (inside) 11.30am – 1.30pm. Jazz
orchestra
Lokmaci gate :1pm – 3pm. One week the pop orchestra, the following
week the Latin orchestra. (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)
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)
Guzelyurt
Orange Festival, 26th June to 12th July.
The programme has yet to be announced. For more information
about the festival,
follow the link. (Back to Top)
Friends of Those in Need quiz night.
Alternative Tuesdays.
7.30pm, Empress Restaurant, near Salamis ruins. Quiz night in aid of
the Friends in Need Charity. (Back to top)
Iskele Folk
Dance Festival, 1st to 14th July.
Programme TBA. More
information about the festival can be found here.
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Gonyeli
International Folk Dance Festival, 4th to 15th July.
Programme TBA. (Back to Top)
112 Afternoon
Tea, 2nd Wednesday monthly, except December.
3pm, Mountain View Hotel, Karaoglanoglu. English tea, sandwiches and
scones with cream. Guest speaker TBA. Entry 10TL.
Ozankoy
Gardening Forum, 2nd Thursday monthly except August.
2.30pm, Five fingers, Ozankoy. An informal group of gardening
enthusiasts who want to share their knowledge and learn more about
gardening in North Cyprus. Speaker TBA. (Back to top)
BRS and SPOT Boat
Trip, Friday 10th July.
6.30pm for sailing at 7pm, Girne harbour. The British Residenbts
Society. the Foreign Residents in TRNC and the Society for the
Protection of Turtles are having a sunst to moonrise evening cruise
on "The African Queen". Tickets cost £20 for adults and £15 for
young people age 12 - 16, and are available at the BRS hut and
Pegasos market. Enquiries 821 8177, 821 2307 or 0542 872 4291. All
profits to SPOT. (Back to Top)
TKOD (112)
60s Night, Saturday 11th July.
8pm, Mountain View Hotel, Karaoglanoglu. Tickets cost 40TL which
includes a buffet and all local drinks. Tickets from 0533 876 1483 /
840 7834 / 832 5064, or the Carpenters and Lambousa markets.
Registration continues until Tuesday, 7 July. For information about
registration and the program costs, please contact us at 229
3070/71.
PROGRAM
8 July - Wednesday, 2009
Understanding Modern (20th-century) Western Art
9 July - Thursday, 2009
Looking at Art and Culture I: Cyprus from its beginnings to the
Ottomans
10 July - Friday, 2009
Listening to & Understanding Music I: Jazz (Back
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