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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)
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 and Hatching end July to end
September (Approximate Dates)
Hatching 24th July. Be at the Goatshed at 6.30pm.
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. Around 60 days
later, the eggs begin to hatch. The volunteers give any stragglers a
hand once the sun starts going down, and you can watch this. Booking
is not necessary, but there is not an excavation every day, and
normally not an excavation on a Sunday. Public excavations will be
announced on this web site and the turtle blog. 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)
Coffee Morning.
Last Saturday monthly, March to October.
10am, The Hermitage, Kyrenia. Coffee morning, bring & buy, and
raffle. (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)
3rd Mehmetick
Cultural Festival, 25th to 30th
July.
Follow the link for
programme
details. (Back to Top)
For a list of
dates and venues, follow the link. (Back to Top)
The
Weakest Link, 25th July.
7.30pm, Mountain View Hotel. Three Weakest Link
competitions in aid of SPOT. Game 1 will see local celebrities
playing. This will be followed by a buffet. Game 2 is open, and game
3 will see charity members taking part. Tickets cost 20TL, and can
be obtained from the hotel or the SPOT stall at the Lambousa market.
KAR
Bingo Night, 21st July.
8pm, Soho Lounge. A bingo night is being held in aid of KAR. There’s
a jackpot of 350TL. Tickets cost 15TL, and include a buffet. To
book, call 0533 844 7885.
Enrico Macias, 25th July.
Rocks Hotel. Internationally acclaimed singer Enrico Macias is
showcasing songs of freedom, love and peace. Born in 1938 in
Algeria, he has played the guitar since childhood, but originally
became a school teacher. He moved to France during the Algerian War
of Independence, and pursued a career in music. He made his first
recording in 1962 after a meeting with Raymond Bernard of Pathée.
The result was recording of "Adieu mon pays," which he had composed
on the boat to France. He appeared on French television and became
an overnight sensation.
Karpaz Beach
Festival, 12th to 26th July.
Yeni Erinkoy Municipality Beach. Programme TBA