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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 Hatching,
end July to end September (Approximate Dates)
North Cyprus is one of the few turtle nesting areas in the
Mediterranean. Every year student volunteers study these animals. Around
60 days after nesting, 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, their
2009 blog, or their
2010 blog.
You can also call their information line, 0533 879 8533, after
9.30am.
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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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Sidestreets at
Kyrenia, Last Sunday Monthly.
12 Midday, Onar Village, Kyrenia. Programme tba. Seats cost 30TL,
including lunch, and should be reserved in advance at Sidestreets,
Tel: 229-307
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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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KAR Bingo
Fundraiser, Last Thursday Monthly.
8pm, The Fez, Catalkoy. Tickets cost 35TL, which includes 5 games of
bingo, the last game being a rollover. Booking on 0533 844 7885.
International Lefkosa
Folk Dance Festival,
24th to 30th August.
Provisional dates based on previous years.
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Turtle Fun Day, Tuesday 24th
August.
Lapethos Aqua Park in aid of SPOT. Tickets cost 10TL for all.
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Second Annual
Raft Race, Sunday 29th August.
3pm, Beach Lagoon Bar, Lapta. (Entrants arrive 1.30pm.) A charity
event with rafts of 4 persons. There will be a raffle on the day,
and a disco and BBQ after the event. For more information contact
Teresa on 0533 8845348.
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14th Famagusta Arts
and Culture Festival, 24th August to 7th September.
Postponed from July. For more
information
about the festival, or for
programme details, follow the links.
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Pool Party,
Sunday 29th August.
4pm, MOS Restaurant, Catalkoy. Charity event by Cheshire Homes to
raise funds for Ismail, who lost his arm in an accident. Entry costs
5TL, and booking is not necessary.
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Carob Picking, Thursday 26th
August.
Maureen and Tony Hutchinson have organised some carob picking days
on their organic farm. People taking part will learn how to crush
and prepare the carobs, and then make pekmez or carob syrup. More
information on 0392 721 3013 or 0542 854 4329.
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