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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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Catalkoy Market.
Every Sunday.
9am to 1 pm. Soyuz Bar. More information from 0542 885 7723 or 0542
886 7012.
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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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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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NCCCT Bingo,
2nd Monday Monthly (Except July and August).
7.30pm, Mambo Bar, Alsancak. Fundraising for the charity Free
entry and free raffle. Book of 6 games cost 35TL.
NCCCT Coffee
morning, 2nd Tuesday monthly except July and August.
10am, Dolce Vita, Ozankoy. Stalls include books, brick-a-brac, decorated
tiles, homemade pickles and preserves, handmade cards, and new and
used ladies clothing. Everything raised goes towards essential
hospital equipment for the relief of cancer sufferers. Entry costs
10TL and includes light refreshments.
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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8th Cyprus
Theatre Festival, 2nd - 28th September.
All shows are in Turkish, and take stage at 9pm at the AKKM at Near
East University in Lefkosa (Nicosia), North Cyprus, with the
following programme:-
Thursday 2nd September, 2010. Tek Kisilik Sehir
Monday 6th September, 2010. Vashet Tanrisi
Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th September, 2010. Testo Teron
Wednesday 15th & Thursday 16th September, 2010. Kerem Gibi
Monday 20th September, 2010. Tarla Kusuydu Juliet
Thursday 23rd September, 2010. Intiharin Genel Provasi
Saturday 25th September, 2010. Matmazel Julie
Monday 27th & Tuesday 28th September, 2010. Kralice LearTickets
cost 15TL (Combi 100TL), and can be purchased from Lefkosa
Belediyesi Public Relations OR Lefkosa Deniz Plaza.
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BRS Blood Donor
Day, Saturday 18th September.
10am - 1pm,
Yenierinkoy. Details tba.
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Gourmet
Evening, Thursday 16th September.
7.30pm, Guido’s, Alsancak. A gourmet Spanish themed evening, in aid
of the Cheshire Homes. Tickets cost 35TL, and can be booked on 0533
873 0156.
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Arman Ratip, Tuesday
Weekly.
8pm, The Old Grapevine, Girne. Pianist composer Arman Ratip plays a
selection of classical and jazz music for patrons, much of which he
has composed or arranged . Arman is a Turkish Cypriot who started
playing piano at the age of five. He studied music and pianoforte
with his mother Jale Dervis, one of the most famous music and piano
teachers on the island. He started composing at the age of seven,
fascinating audiences as a child prodigy. Later, his musical career
took off in London when he recorded two albums of his own
compositions and arrangements for EMI, and performed extensively in
the United Kingdom. He is hailed by music critics as one of the most
outstanding and captivating virtuosos of our times. Entrance is free
to customers of the Old Grapevine.
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5th
International Carob Festival, 14th to
19th September.
Provisional dates. Held at Tatlisu. Events during the week include a
parade, Folklore dancing, a kite flying contest, concerts, a cycle race, a
football tournament, beach wrestling, and a spear fishing
contest.
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12.30pm, Chateau Lambousa. Viewing Friday and Saturday from 10am.
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10am. Viewing Friday and Saturday.
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