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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.
This week there is a Halloween theme. Shoppers will get free entry
into a halloween tombola for every 5TL spent. Everyone is invited to
enter the competition for the best Halloween costume, with judging
at 11am.
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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)
112 Quiz night. Last Monday Monthly.
7.30pm, The Deniz Han restaurant (on the corner of the road leading to Deniz Kizi Hotel,
and opposite the Kings Court Hotel). 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)
Greek National Day (Ochi Day),
28th October.
The Greek National Day remembers the day in October 1940
when the Greek General Ioannis Metaxas answered a defiant
"ochi" ("no" in Greek) to Italy's request to cross the
country en route to Russia. The answer pitted the nations
against one another and forced the Italians to invade the
island ultimately dragging Greece into the war. Cyprus
celebrates this defiance with a series of national events,
parades and church services. Follow the links for a list of
Roc
holidays and for
TRNC holidays.
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Turkish
Republic Day, 29th November.
This is a public holiday in the TRNC. Follow the links for a list of TRNC holidays
and for Roc
holidays . (Back to Top)
The Armed Man,
28th and 30th October.
Bellapais Abbey. Kyrenia Chamber Choir present a performance of Karl
Jenkins' work. For
more information, follow the link. (Back to Top)
Coffee
Morning. Last Saturday monthly, March
to October.
10am, The Hermitage, Kyrenia. Coffee morning, bring & buy, and
raffle. (Top)
Blackburn
People’s Choir, 25th to 30th
October.
Around 40 members of this Lancashire choir will be performing a
variety of music on the streets and at venues in Kyrenia, Bellapais,
and Famagusta. They will also be hosting charity concerts for the
benefit of good causes, including NCCCT. The itinerary is as
follows.
October 25th, 1pm. Charity concert at Hoots Restaurant.
October 26th, 11am to 4pm. Busking in Bellapais,
including a performance at the Gardens of Irini.
October 27th. 8pm, Ataturk Cultural Centre, Lefkosa. Charity concert in aid of the NCCCT.
October 28th, 11am to 4pm. Busking in Kyrenia and an
evening concert at the Villa Club.
October 29th, 7.30pm. Charity concert at Mambo Bar,
Alsancak.
October 30th, 11am to 4pm. Busking in Famagusta, and an
evening concert at Salamis.
Ticket prices and further
information TBA
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)
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.
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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