Today we’re making delicious baba ganoush – or yoghurt and aubergine salad! Summer is well and truly underway now. And this is perfect weather for exploring Turkish meze recipes. In particular, yoghurt-based meze recipes; perfect for keeping the body cool on ridiculously hot summer days. This yoghurt-based meze also uses a people’s foodie favourite, aubergine. …
Just over an hour’s drive, southeast from where we live in Fethiye, sits one of the prettiest places along the Turkish Turquoise Coast; Kalkan. Lapped by the dazzlingly clear waters of the Mediterranean Sea, Kalkan old town – and the modern world behind it – climb up the (outrageously) steep hillside that rises from those …
It’s that time of the month again where we look back on what’s happened throughout the month and – so fast, it seems – here we are, already at the end of May. This is the section where we look back on Fethiye blog posts from this month and also mention a few things that …
Hotel Unique, Fethiye is an architectural delight! Throughout the winter of 2013/14, we watched a hotel being built in an impossibly small space, in a cliff face, right in the middle of Fethiye. During that time, our opinions went from the ‘What the…?’ end of the spectrum to the ‘Well, just wow,’ end of the …
What makes Antalya Museum a memorable museum? Well, for us, it’s not just the collections they have in the building. We’ve been to Istanbul Archaeological Museum in the past – one of the finest collections in the world, we’re told – and we’ll be honest and tell you we got bored eventually. That’s a place …
Yes, here we are, on May Day, writing our Fethiye update for the previous month of April. Well, at least it means we can cover the whole month because things have been pretty action packed around these parts right up until yesterday. So, let’s get started with what we were up to last month. The …
In our two days on the road in the east of Turkey we’d seen so much, observed so much, realised a couple of ambitions – it was all bordering on the overwhelming; just amazing – and now it was time to head to Kars to get some food before driving back to Patnos. Let’s recap …
Many Turks will be amazed that we managed to live in Turkey for over ten years before we had our first ever taste of what is perhaps Turkey’s most well known soup; Tarhana Çorbası. When we did finally make tarhana soup, I put this on my Facebook profile and on Twitter. “Noooo waaay,” was one …
The Ani ruins lie in the Kars Province, southwest of the city of Kars in a village called Ocaklı. As with most drives we did around this area, the route from Iğdır towards Kars and Ocaklı is virtually traffic free. The roads stretch for miles until they disappear over the horizon. And, as we told …
Onwards to Tuzluca Salt Mines. We left the story where we were sat in a police station in Iğdır, on a national holiday, smiling politely at the policeman on duty in the hope that he would authorise our hire car to be released from car prison. There are four of us, sitting there. Our two …