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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.
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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.
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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!).
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Karakum Market. Every Sunday.
9am to 1pm, Paradise restaurant and sports bar. (Behind the
Ozankoy Lemar). Books, hand made greeting cards, hand
made Turkish Cypriot souvenirs, plants, toys, clothing, shoes,
English jams, preserves, pickles, bric-a-brac, carpets,
haberdashery, wool, electricals, electronics, pictures, photo., To
set up a stall contact Sandie on 0533 8649195 or 0533 8629416 or
e-mail to
karakumcarboot1@gmail.com
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Pembegul
Market, Every Sunday.
10am - 3pm, Pembegul Garden Centre.
Next to K-Pet petrol garage, Between Bellapais traffic lights &
Bellapais roundabout. A selection of plants, books, shoes, DVDs,
and more.
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Buyukkonuk
Market, Every Sunday.
11am – 4pm., Buyukkonuk village centre, Karpaz. Organised by the
Eco-Tourism Association, the market has handicrafts, traditional
food, and local produce.
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Turtle Nesting, (June to August.) & Hatching, (July to
September)
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.
Nesting visits finish this year on the 4th August. 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. You
can also call their information line, 0533 879 8533, after 9.30am. For more
information on
turtles and their
nesting, follow the links. Follow their exploits by reading their
2008 diary, their
2009 blog, or their
2010 blog.
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NCCCT
Bingo, Wednesday Afternoons.
A bingo fundraiser for the charity takes place every Wednesday
afternoon at central Kyrenia's Watermill Hotel. Bingo books cost
each player YTL25 at the sessions, with 10% being donated to the
Cancer Charity. All of the remainder goes into the prize fund.
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Friends
of Those in Need quiz night. Alternative Tuesdays.
7.30pm, Empress Restaurant, near Salamis ruins. Quiz night in aid of
the Friends of those in Need Charity.
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Line Dancing
Lessons, Tuesdays till end September.
6.30pm to 8.30pm, Cine Miles Restaurant, Girne. Kibris liners have a
weekly class for all levels during the summer. Once the lesson is
over you can eat if you want then put into practice what you have
learnt if you want to. Park opposite the HSBC and just walk back.
5TL for 2 hours. For more information, contact 0542 883 4422.
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50th Mehmetcik
Grape Festival, 6th to 15th August.
The programme is as follows.
Friday 6th - 8.30pm President Eroglu
officially opens the event. 9.15pm various awards followed by
fireworks and a concert with SOS band
Saturday 7th from 10am sand sculpture
competition at Bafra beach, prize giving at 4pm
Sunday 8th 10am soccer tournament, 9pm
best garden and street awards
Monday 9th 3pm-6pm food and wine making
demo. 9pm - longest sujuk comp.
Tuesday 10th 3pm-6pm food and wine
making demo
Wednesday 11th 3pm-6pm food and wine
demo. 9pm 5-10 year olds comp for best bunch of grapes.
Thursday 12th 3-6pm wine making. 9pm
music concert
Friday 13th 3-6pm food and wine panel
Saturday 14th 10am visit to Ergenekon
and St Hilarion wineries. 9pm music concert
Sunday 15th 10am volleyball comp. 9pm
official closing
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Reggae Concert, Saturday 7th
August.
9pm, Green Garden, Jasmine Court. Grammy award winning artist Sean
Paul will be appearing. Tickets cost 50TL pre
booked, and 70TL on the door.
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4th
Mehmetcik Cultural Festival, 31st July - 5th August.
Provisional dates based on previous years. Most Events start at 9pm
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Engelbert Humperdink, Sunday 8th
August.
9.30pm, Rocks Hotel. Engelbert Humperdinck (born Arnold George
Dorsey, May 2, 1936) is a popular music singer who became famous
internationally during the 1960s and 1970s, after adopting the name
of the famous German opera composer Engelbert Humperdinck as his own
stage name. In early 1967 Humperdinck's version
of "Release Me," done in a smooth ballad style with a full chorus
joining him on the third chorus, scored the top ten on both sides of
the Atlantic and scored number one in Britain, keeping The Beatles'
adventurous "Strawberry Fields Forever" from entering the top slot
in the UK. "Release Me" spent 56 weeks in the Top 50 in a single
chart run. Humperdinck's deceptively easygoing style and casually
elegant good looks, a contrast to Tom Jones's energetic attack and
overtly sexual style, earned Humperdinck a large following,
particularly among women. "Release Me" was succeeded by two more hit
ballads, "There Goes My Everything" and "The Last Waltz," earning
him a reputation as a crooner with which he did not always agree.
"If you are not a crooner," he told Hollywood Reporter writer
Rick Sherwood, "it's something you don't want to be called. No
crooner has the range I have. I can hit notes a bank could not cash.
What I am is a contemporary singer, a stylized performer." Entrance
is free for casino customers and their guests.
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Midsummer Ball, Friday 6th
August.
9pm – 5am, Club Vogue. Featuring a line-up of high profile UK DJs
and MCs, together with emerging talent. Entrance £15/35TL
Beach Party, Sunday 8th August
Midday – 7pm, Escape Beach Club. Part of the Midsummer ball,
featuring a line-up of high profile UK DJs and MCs, together with
emerging talent. Entrance 25TL
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