After three nights in the town of Bodrum and the good fortune of finding the Bodrum Datça ferry running on the day we wanted to travel, we arrived in Datça town. The plan was to stay for one night, just to spend a bit of time in the actual town rather than around the peninsula. …
Recently, we had decided it was time to hit the water and, as a result, get from A to B by way of the Bodrum Datça ferry… If you read this blog a lot, you’ll know most of our travels around Turkey are done via public transport of the non-flying variety. Getting around is so …
We know. No Fethiye news update last month. At least once or twice a year, we end up doing a bit of a bumper 2-month catch up. And this is one of those occasions. We were on a little jaunt to Bodrum and Datça at the end of April / beginning of May and, by …
Bodrum – it carries with it a bit of baggage. Bodrum has a reputation. A party town. A summer town. But, do you know what; Bodrum centre – and other places on the peninsula, too, for that matter – is neither of those for us. Over the years, because of visits with Turkish friends or …
Seasonal cooking – it’s just the best. And this erik tavası – a Turkish greengage recipe is most definitel seasonal. The best because when the food markets are abundant in a particular seasonal fruit or vegetable for just a few weeks, we get over-excited and buy far too much of it for two people. And …
Hiking from Ovacık to Faralya along the Lycian Way long distance footpath. It was a weekend of doing something new. And doing activities we’d been meaning to repeat for some time but never got around to. The ‘something new,’ was eating lunch at Izela in the village of Kayaköy. The repeated activities were additions to …
Lunch at Izela, Kayaköy. There’s a first time for everything, even if that first time has been a long time coming. If you know the Fethiye area and you’ve been to the village of Kayaköy, chances are, you know Izela Restaurant. Chances are, you’ve eaten there on more than one occasion, actually. Because Izela Restaurant …
We love Fethiye harbour’s Boğaziçi Restaurant! Every town has them. Those places that make you feel safe and comfortable because it just feels like they’ve been around forever. Hello Büfe along Fethiye harbour is one such place – it’d be a travesty if it ever wasn’t there. And another place, just a smidge further along …
We’ve been running a lot over winter – strange how it pushes other loves in your life into the background without you noticing. We were training for the Istanbul 10k in November and then the Runtalya marathon event at the beginning of March in Antalya. Before we knew it, winter was done with and we …
You fancied a pide, you went to Paşa Kebap. You wanted lahmacun, you went to Paşa Kebap. You wanted a takeaway – or even delivery service – you went to Paşa Kebap. This was back in the late ’90s. A time when eateries in Fethiye weren’t nearly as abundant as they are now. What we …