So it is time for this year’s fair, I usually try to make a visit every year because I want to be updated on what new gadgets are coming to the island. Spoke with another Swedish couple if they would be interested to come along, and they were happy to follow. We were there already at 19:00 when they opened, which was nice, when there were not so many people. So we could go in peace and look at each booth. The fair takes no entrance fee.
It has happened that there has been so many people that I have just gone with the flow, not a chance to break away and watch.
We began as usual, with a visit to the house to the left of the entrance, there is a tourist information, and a small coffee wagon eith two cute girls serving Turkish coffee in a traditional way; boiling coffee on a heated sand bed. Opposite them are the handicraft cooperatives, where they show up needlework in the form of Lefke embroideries.
In the same house, but in the next section, there was furniture, solar energy, juice drinks, and a man who handed out free bread with ham. We went out to the next building where we saw TV sets, household appliances, furniture again, bathroom gadgets, Turkish lamps, open fireplaces, and new this year, a coffee maker for Turkish coffee, a must in every home, right?
The building number three was paint, “boys stuff” in the form of industry vacuum cleaners, trimmer for garden, lawn mowers, in short Nolia fair-style, and since we are there, we have to see everything, our eyes gaze over every little detail, big or small.
We can smell the food, so we go to the food area where there is falafel, kebab, pizza, and baked potatoes to choose from. We each ordered the chicken kebab and an Efes, we are worth it! It is actually a party. People keep streaming in all the time and I’ll bet most Turkish Cypriots have found their way here. The evening is warm and there is a festival for young and old. We are, however, what I can see, the only foreigners at the fair, which is common. Some of the exhibitors speak English, but many of them are from mainland Turkey, and they speak only Turkish. But with a little body language we understand each other.
The evening is sadly coming to an end, but we had seen lots of different stuff and different kinds of machines, and we even had gotten together a lot of brochures, so it’s going to take some time to go through them all, but it is worth it.
For those of you who have not been on the show stay tuned and read the Cyprus Today, they make a teaser when it’s time. It is every year, end of May- beginning of June. This year it´s ninetysix exhibitors from North Cyprus and thirty-seven from Turkey.
It is a popular festival, definitely worthy of a visit, and we see that northern Cyprus has various things that you did not know existed, and now, you also know where they are located.
To get to the fairgrounds, located in Lefkosa / Nicosia, you take the road to Near East University.
Previously published article, click here.
Previously published article, click here.
