Wow, don’t we just make a fabulous job of getting side tracked on this blog! One minute we’re taking you to East Turkey, the next minute we’re eating meze at a restaurant in Dalyan and allowing our addiction to Kabak to take hold. And that’s in between writing about daily life in Fethiye – such …
Kabak has been a part of our life for a long time. But it’s definitely fair to say that, since around 2012, the area’s kind of taken hold of us. We’ve fallen for it in an even bigger way. If we’re to look back to try and pinpoint why we’ve got such an affection for …
Turkey – particularly the bigger cities – has way more than its fair share of shopping centres (alışveriş merkezi – AVM). But, for those of us living in Fethiye, if we did want to go to a nearby shopping centre, it meant a trip to Antalya or Bodrum. All that changed in 2014 with the …
“Hi Barry and Julia. Apologies for the slow reply. We had a terrible forest fire in Adrasan over the weekend and I was helping friends out…” And life’s like that. The author of the book we’d been invited to review couldn’t reply to us because she was helping friends in a clean up operation after …
It’s not often we write about Turkish desserts or sweetie goodness on this blog because neither of us has a particularly sweet tooth. However, the holy month of Ramadan has ended and now, Ramazan Bayramı is once more upon us. And, as this is the time when people tend to indulge in foods of the …
So there we were, enjoying a birthday break with friends by way of a peaceful, chilled out overnight stay at the Olive Garden in Kabak. We’d pencilled in a hike down to the beach this time so that we could visit the brand new camp of someone we know – we’re nosey, like that. And, …
When we were invited to like the Facebook page for Chakra Beach in Kabak, this really piqued our interest. It happens a lot on Facebook: “______ invited you to like their page.” Oh, go on then. Some you like out of politeness because it’s your friend, even though you’re not remotely interested in the subject …
For lots of visitors to the Fethiye area, Dalyan has always been that place where you go on an organised day trip from Fethiye. A transfer from Fethiye to Dalyan, before getting in a boat and sailing along the waterways to view the iconic Lycian ruins and going on to the sulphur mud baths before …
Yes. Mehtap Lokantası. It’s been around for some years, just sitting on the corner of the main junction in Çalış. We’ve never seen it packed, despite its large area and number of covers. But customers do come and go…and we come and go, too, very occasionally. There’s no reason why we don’t go there more …
Those of you who have been reading our ramblings on a regular basis over the years will know that we have a minor obsession with vessels of any type that appear in the bay of Fethiye. It doesn’t even have to be a luxury yacht. Tankers, cargo ships, cruise ships…anything. If it’s there, early in …