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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)
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 1 pm at Star Bowling. (Back to Top)
Art Exhibition,
3rd to 6th November.
6pm, Tuesday (Official opening), then10am - 5pm, Bellapais Abbey. The Anglo Turkish Association are
holding an art Exhibition. (Back to Top)
7.30pm. NCCCT charity bingo at the Soho Lounge. Admission
free. A book of two games costs 15TL, and 4 games 20TL.
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BRS Karpaz Visit,
4th November.
Depart from the Civil defence Building, Kyrenia at 9.30am. There
will be a coffee stop en route, followed by a visit to an oil and
flour mill, before lunch at the Yenierinkoy Belidiye Beach
Restaurant. Tickets cost 45TL for members and 50TL for non members
(Karpaz members 25Tl/30TL) (Back to Top)
Remembrance
Day, 8th November.
Services will be held at Waynes Keep and at Famagusta British
cemetery. A service will also be held at the Kyrenia British
Cemetery where the British Cyprus Memorial Trust will unveil a
Memorial to 371 British servicemen who died during the Cyprus
Emergency (the EOKA Campaign) A dark-grey granite memorial will be
unveiled. It will, eventually, be moved to Wayne's Keep if there is
a political settlement. This service will be timed to coincide with
the remembrance day service in the UK, as it is being televised
there. It will start at 12.30pm, but space is limited, so expect to
stand outside the gates and watch on a large TV screen. (Back to Top)
Amanda's Auction,
Ozankoy, Alternate Sundays.
10am. Viewing Friday and Saturday. (Back to top)
Line Dancing Lessons, Every Wednesday
11am, Moon Over the Water, Iskele, with Phoenix Dancers. Open to
everybody and anybody !! Enquiries to Pamela Hedge 0542 8892327.
KAR Lunch, 5th
November.
Mid day - 3pm, Black Olive Cafe. Meal in aiad of KAR funds. Cost
12TL, and includes a drink. (Back to Top)
Sidestreets
7pm. Sidestreets, in cooperation with the Embassy of the
Netherlands, is pleased to present three nights of screenings of
Dutch films that have won some 35 awards and prize nominations
between them: The Dutch Ambassador to Cyprus, H.E. Mr. Jan Eric van
den Berg, will introduce the event, Dutch Short Films on Friday, 30
October 2009, at 19:00. A reception will follow. (All films are in
Dutch with English Sub titles)
Programme
Friday, 30 October, 19:00 – Selected Dutch short films (57 minutes)
Monday, 2 November, 19:00 - De Tweeling (Twin Sisters; 137 minutes)
Tuesday, 3 November, 19:00 - De Dominee (The Preacher; 110 minutes)
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EMU
International Night, 6th
November.
6.30pm, Venetian Palace, Famagusta. Students from 68 countries at
the EMU will be parading in their national costumes. Traditional
food will be displayed and sold, and there will be a performance by
the Municipal Folk dance Troupe. This will be followed by
performances by groups from Nigeria, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan and
Girne. There will also be a dance and fashion show by a group from
Pakistan, and a concert by Iranian students. The night will end with
a concert by EMU music department and Jazz Mania.