Sitting above the northwest corner of Eğirdir Lake in the Isparta Province of Turkey lie the ruins of Antioch Of Pisidia. We were in Eğirdir to finally experience the beauty of the vast lake and the mountain scenery. As well as Turkey’s spectacular lakeland scenery, we were also there for the culinary experience – Lake …
A long, hot summer. A long, hot summer of walks (and running) between Fethiye and Çalış Beach. It was too hot to walk much further. And a reluctance to use public transport meant we’d had a summer of being pretty much rooted to our immediate neighbourhood. We were really excited for the arrival of September. …
About an hour’s drive from Fethiye, just west of Dalaman Airport and east of Marmaris, sits one of our favourite little towns, Dalyan. Whilst we knew of its existence and proximity to Fethiye, before we moved here in 1998, we’d never visited Dalyan. And when we did finally go a couple of years later, it …
What’s the end of a year without a little bit of reminiscing, eh? A look back at what has passed. And 2018 has been a packed 365 days for us. As always, that is reflected through the blog – life in Fethiye, life in the kitchen (and various eateries, of course) and a healthy sprinkling …
Things to do in Eğirdir and around? Wow, where to start… A road trip to explore some of Turkey’s Anatolian Lake District in the Burdur and Isparta Provinces was the destination for our last little jaunt. The small lakeside town of Eğirdir, a district of the Isparta Province, had been on our radar since moving …
Akyaka, on Turkey’s southern Aegean coast, is a real jewel of a town. We stumbled across it years ago, intending to visit for the day but ending up camping overnight in a rented tent on the forest campsite. Since then, we’d been full of good intentions to return. But it took until the summer of …
We loved our time on Sperlonga beach on the coast of Italy’s Lazio region. Why do we love our website title, Turkey’s For Life? Because it’s us; it has numerous meanings – just one of which suggests that Turkey is most definitely our home. And, when somewhere is your home, that means you can wander …
In a previous article, we wrote about another day trip from Fethiye; Sarıgerme Beach. Well, if you’re anything like us and you start to feel a bit restless once you’ve finished admiring the beach scenery, you need somewhere to move on to. Sarıgerme is part of Ortaca and just a tad further along the D400 …
Okay, so where are we up to? We showed you the map of our route from Patnos to Tatvan on our little mini road trip. Our first stop was Adilcevaz with the centuries old mosque and beautiful views across Van Gölü, and then it was time to press on towards Ahlat. And the Seljuk tombstones …