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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)
Tour
of South Nicosia. Monday, Thursday and Friday weekly.
Conducted tour of South Nicosia. Meet 10am TIC Laiki Yitonia, South
Nicosia.
Monday.
The tour is conducted on an old wooden bus and takes visitors to two
of the most peaceful areas in Nicosia; the historic neighbourhood of
Chrysaliniotissa within the old city walls and Kaimakli area within
the Municipality of Nicosia.
Thursday.
This walking tour aims to give an overall picture of the city within
the walls and how it has evolved through the centuries.
Friday.
This tour, also partially by bus, aims to show the growth of the
city outside the walls from the 19th century to the present. Yet it
also encompasses the prehistoric past of the city that developed
along the Pedieos River and the excavations testifying to Nicosia's
uninterrupted cultural continuity.
Remember, if you are visiting south Nicosia, Turkish Lira is neither accepted or changeable. (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)
13th North
Cyprus International Bellapais Music Festival, 21st May to 21st June.
8.30 pm, Bellapais Abbey. Tickets cost 20TL. This week's programme.
Tuesday 16th June
Yevgeny Xaviereff, Emir Nuhanovic & Ehlimana Tikvesa (Bosnia/
Herzegovina)
Violin/Clarenet/Piano Recital
Friday 19th June
Vancin Trio (Turkey/Switzerland)
Oboe/Claranet/Piano Recital
Sunday 21st June
Colours of Turkey (Turkey)
Closing Choral Concert
For full details, visit the festival web site. (Back to top)
Loreen McKennitt
Concert, Tuesday 16th June.
9pm.
Salamis amphitheatre. Part of the 13th Famagusta Arts and Culture
Festival. The Canadian singer/composer Loreena McKennitt
is self-managed, self-produced, and the head of her own
internationally successful record label, Quinlan Road. In a
recording career spanning nearly two decades, McKennitt's “eclectic
Celtic” music has won critical acclaim worldwide and gold, platinum
and multi-platinum sales awards in fifteen countries across four
continents. (Back to Top)
BRS Summer Dance,
Saturday 20th June.
7.30pm for 8.
Denizkizi Hotel. Tickets cost 45Tl for members, and 50TL for non
members. (Back to Top)
Karaman Midsummer
Party, Sunday 21st June.
7pm, Karaman.
A celebration for midsummer day. The evening starts with the Steam
Machine disco in the church car park. Food and drink will be
available, as well as a raffle. All proceeds in aid of the upkeep of
Karaman Church. (Back
to Top)
Anglo Turkish
Association First Aid Course, 20th and 27th June.
10.30am to12.30pm and 2pm to 4pm, Aurora Hotel (opposite Ezic
Premiere). The Anglo Turkish Association, in association with Terry
Carter and members of the 112 team are holding a two day First
Aid training course. (Certificates will be issued at the end of the
2 day course). Please wear old clothes as a lot entails being a
patient in and around the venue. The cost of training and lunch per
day is 25Tl, members and 30Tl, non members. Book by email to Laurie
at shiloh1865@gmail.com
0533 866 3625 or Vasviye 0533 865 7798, or add your name to the
tree. Programme is as follows.
20th June
Safety at the scene of an incident
Aims of First Aid
Principals of First Aid
History taking
Signs & Symptoms
Removal of clothing
Lunch
Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation
For adults and children
Obstructed Airway/Choking
Recovery Position
Swimming Pool or Water Incidents
Examination of Conscious and Unconscious patient
27th June
Classification of Wounds/Bleeding/ Treatment
Classification of Fractures and Treatment
Lunch
Medical Conditions; Seizures, Diabetic, Heart Attack
Poisons, Environmental Injuries (Back to Top)
Famagusta Arts
and Culture Festival, 16th June to 3rd July
The full programme has yet to be announced. For more
information
about the festival, follow the link. (Back to
Top)
Classic Car Rally, Sunday 21st June.
Turkish Cyprus Classic Cars Association (KTKOD) are holding a "photo
rally." Participants are given the names of historic places,
and have to visit as many of them as possible, collecting points by
taking photos of the locations with them in the photo. The best ones
will be put on display and sold in aid of the SOS. (Back to Top)
Girne
Watersports club and Girne Marine club
open day, Saturday 20th June.
10am – 4pm, Diana beach, Catalkoy. A chance to see what you can look
forward to if you join the sailing club. The group is particularly
interested in expanding its youth section. The opportunity will be
given for people to sail, but suitable clothing (eg swimwear) should
be worn.
Garden Railway
on Display, Sunday 21st June.
2pm - 7pm, Zeytinlik. A final chance to see this G scale garden
railway before it moves to the UK. The railway was built by John
Bosley, and completed just before he died in September 2007. His
widow, Anne, is opening it in aid of the Kyrenia Animal Rescue. It
will then be sold in the UK. The route to the garden will be
indicated from the Ship Hotel. An entrance donation of 5TL for
adults and 3TL for children is suggested. (Back to
Top)
Art
Exhibition. 10th to 20th June (Except Sunday)
8am - 8pm, Buyuk Han, Nicosia. Artists Ozgul Kizilbora, Aziz
Mevlitler and Koray Gorgul present a selection of their work. (Back
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Figaro's
Wedding, Thursday June 18th.
9pm Salamis amphitheatre. Part of the 13th Famagusta Arts and
Culture Festival. Istanbul-based Cat Theatre group present Figaro's
Wedding. (Back to Top)
KAR
(Kyrenia Animal rescue) Bingo Night, Tuesday 16th June.
8pm, Soho Lounge, Karakum. Entry 15TL which includes a buffet. To
reserve a table, call 0533 844 7885.
Karpaz Trip,
Tuesday 16th June.
10am. Meet at LA Hotel, Lapta. The Foreign Residents in TRNC is
having a summer trip anad lunch at a Maronite restaurant. Lunch at
the Maria restaurant in Korucam will be followed by a visit to
the church before moving to Sadrazamkoy. The provisional price is
50TL. For details call 0533 877 3076. (Back to Top)
Buyuk Han
Concert, Thursday 18th June.
8.30pm, free entrance. Lefkosa Municipality Chamber Orchestra are
holding a concert at the Buyuk Han in Nicosia. (Back
to Top)