Hello! Welcome to our very first monthly Fethiye news update of 2024! How’s January been for you? As I type, the very wet and mild Fethiye winter has suddenly turned on its heels and done a very fast runner to make way for icy breezes and Real Feel temperatures in minus figures. Maybe we’ll get …
In the deep, dark depths of the winter months, this Turkish beyran soup recipe (beyran çorbası, to give it its Turkish name) is definitely a bubbling, steaming bowl of comfort. The traditional soup of Gaziantep in the southeast of the country , this is a hearty bowl of lamb soup with the lamb meat often …
2023 came to an end and we’ve just woken up to a whole new year. If you followed us throughout that last year, thanks for making it this far! We’re sure you’re just like us and hoping 2024 brings with it the opportunity for some peace and calm in the world. Until that time, we …
That’s the overriding memory of any Runtalya Marathon (Runtalya Maratonu) event; just a mass of colour – and a great atmosphere, too, of course. Over the years, the Runtalya Marathon – and its half marathon and 10k distances – has grown into what is arguably Turkey’s biggest road running event outside of Istanbul. Each year, …
Yes, we’re having a double whammy for this roundup of news from beautiful Fethiye. We’ve got November and a bit of December to get through. The thinking behind this is, the end of December is always that time when you look back on the whole year which has passed rather than just the past month. …
We’ve recently reintroduced ourselves to a Turkish dish that we used to make a lot when we first moved to Fethiye: Patatesli kek or Turkish potato cake. For some reason, it fell from our radar and we forgot all about it. Until we were staying in a hotel in Kaleiçi old town in Antalya. The …
Over two decades of living in Turkey and we finally get to experience our first Turkish oil wrestling (yağlı güreş) tournament. Our neighbouring province, the Mediterranean Province of Antalya, has a strong tradition in hosting oil wrestling festivals. The region has produced some of the country’s top wrestlers. The Yeşilyayla oil wrestling festival in Antalya’s …
Autumn is a fabulous time for seasonal eating. And for this recipe for roasted cauliflower with tahini sauce and pomegranate, we’re using two favourites: the cauliflower and the pomegranate. There are lots of Turkish recipes that celebrate the cauliflower – this simple but very tasty karnabahar yemeği (Turkish cauliflower stew) is a regular for us …
Time for another roundup of our monthly news from Fethiye. The month of October. And wow, what a month that was! Didn’t we say in last month’s news that we were looking forward to slowing down and chilling after a crazy busy summer? Didn’t we say we’d be enjoying a bit more indoor life by …
Our absolute ‘must see’ when we visited the Çeşme Peninsula during the summer months? The small town of Alaçatı! The Aegean coast of Turkey – the stunning Izmir Province in particular – has been very much on our radar of late. A completely different feel and vibe to the Mediterranean coast that we’re more accustomed …