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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)
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. 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 (Back to Top)
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.
Cyprus
European Film Festival, 10th - 25th March.
Provisional dates based on previous years. (Back to
Top)
10am. Viewing Friday and Saturday. (Back to top)
Greek Independence Day,
25th March.
This is a national holiday throughout
southern Cyprus and marks the start of the Greek fight for
independence from the Ottoman Empire which began on 25 March
1821. Independence was finally attained in July 1832. The
day is marked by historic exhibitions and cultural displays
in many of the larger towns and cities. For a full
list of holidays, follow the link. (Back to Top)
ATA Guided
Walk, Thursday 25th and Saturday 27th March.
The Anglo Turkish Association have a guided walk of Famagusta to
compliment the earlier talk by Michael Walsh. The cost is 40TL for
members and 45TL for non members, and includes transport, lunch, and
entrance to a museum. Booking on 0542 872 4291(Back
to Top)
Clocks go Forward,
Sunday 28th March.
Summer starts today! The clocks go forward by one hour throughout
Europe. They go back on the last Sunday in October. (Back
to Top)
Sidestreets at Kyrenia,
Last Sunday Monthly.
12 Midday, Onar Village, Kyrenia. This month's speaker will be
looking at French intellectual Michel Foucault's 1963 book
"The Birth of the Clinic", which
charts the dramatic transformation of medicine
that occurred in the eighteenth century, as “for the first time,
medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged
only to mathematics. The body became something that could be mapped.
Disease became subject to new rules of classification. And doctors
began to describe phenomena that for centuries had remained below
the threshold of the visible and expressible. ... Brilliant,
provocative, and omnivorously learned, Foucault’s book sheds new
light on the origins of our current notions of health and sickness,
life and death.”
Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a French philosopher,
sociologist, historian and professor of the “History of Systems of
Thought” at the Collège de France, the State University of New York
at Buffalo, and the University of California at Berkeley. His major
works include social histories of prisons, medical perception,
insanity, and sexuality. In 2007, The Times Higher Education Guide
listed Michel Foucault as the most cited intellectual in the
humanities. Seats cost 30TL,
including lunch, and should be reserved in advance at Sidestreets,
Tel: 229-3070. (Back to Top)
St Andrews
Coffee Morning. Last Saturday
Monthly, February to October.
10am, The Hermitage, Kyrenia. Coffee morning, bring & buy, and
raffle. (Back to Top)
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.
Craft Market, Last Thursday Monthly.
2pm – 4pm, Back in Time bar, Girne. Products include jewellery,
wrought ironwork, pottery, and cards.
10 am - 3 pm, Pembegul Garden Centre.
Next to K-Pet petrol garage, Between Bellapais traffic lights &
Bellapais roundabout. A selection of plants, books, shoes, DVDs, and
more. (Back to Top)
Wild Flower
and Orchid Walk, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Occasional Saturdays,
March and April.
Hisarkoy. An all day experience. The morning walk is to the east of
the village over fairly gentle terrain. This lasts about two hours,
and is followed by lunch . The afternoon walk, which also lasts two
hours, is a gentle walk to the west towards an orchard glade, an
area of black tulips and other wild flowers. The
circular route takes in a medieval Maronite church, an Ottoman
Turkish bath and a bronze age tomb. The route is flexible, and can
be varied depending on the needs of the group. The cost is £15 per
person. Numbers are limited, so booking is essential on 0392 721
3013, 0542 8544329, or with Maureen Hutchinson at the Friday
Carpenters’ market.
Frank Sinatra Tribute act by Stephen
Triffitt, 26th and 28th March.
7.30pm for 8pm, Rocks Hotel. In aid of the Children in Need
Foundation. Tickets for Friday cost 75TL, and include a 2 course
meal and glass of wine. Sunday’s tickets are
120TTL, and include a 3 course meal and all drinks before midnight.
For more information, call 0533 879 6892.
Line Dancing Lessons, Mondays
to Thursdays,
October to June
Two groups, Phoenix Line Dance Club, and the Kibris Liners hold line
dancing lessons in the TRNC.
Mondays.
10.30am – 12.30pm, Pine Bay/Code Red Alsancak. Beginners. Entrance
5TL. (Kibris Liners)
6pm - 8pm, Dome Hotel, Girne. Intermediate. Entrance 15TL which
includes bar supper and coffee, tea, or soft drink. (Pheonix)
Tuesdays.
10.30am - 12.30pm, Green Valley Restaurant, Alsancak. Improver
level. Entrance 5TL. (Phoenix)
6pm – 8pm, Pine Bay/Code Red, Alsancak. Absolute beginners. Entrance
5TL. (Kibris Liners)
Wednesdays.
10.30am – 12.30pm, Pine Bay/Code red, Alsancak. Intermediate.
Entrance 5TL. (Kibris Liners)
11am - 1pm, Koca Reis, near Salamis. Beginner. Entrance 5TL
(Phoenix)
Thursdays.
10.30am - 12.30pm,Green Valley Restaurant, Alsancak. Beginners.
Entrance 5TL. (Phoenix)
For more information, contact Phoenix on 0533 876 3410, and
Kibris on 0542 883 4422. (Back to Top)
Charity Quiz,
Friday 26th March.
Green Valley Restaurant, Alsancak. The Phoenix line dancing club are
having a charity quiz. (Back to Top)
Classical Concert,
Friday 26th March.
8pm, Bellapais Abbey. The concert features Fikri Toros on piano,
Eran Raman on flute, and Mine Sadrazam on piano. The concert is to
raise funds for the restoration of outbuildings on the grounds of
the hermitage, which will provide outreach facilities for the whole
community. Entrance is free, but donations at the
door are expected. There will be refreshments available at the
interval.