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 …
Aqua parks: what’s your take on them? We’ve just been reading some reviews of Ölüdeniz Water World Aquapark. One person wrote, “Who doesn’t love an aqua park?” Errm, is it just me, then, who looks up at water slides and gets an uneasy queasy feeling? There’s a bit of longing there, too, of course. I …
Mooching around Fethiye hotels is one of our favourite pastimes. Our most recent mooch took us to the lovely Leytur Hotel in Ovacık… Leytur Hotel, Ovacık The official name of Leytur Hotel is actually Hotel Leytur. But, if you see it around online, you’ll more likely see the first title. In Turkey, though, it’s common …
Hisarönü – known to our Fethiye Turkish friends as ‘The Village.’ If it’s a summer weekend and the night out in Fethiye has gone so well that nobody wants it to end, there are usually two possible suggestions: ‘Let’s go for soup,’ or, ‘Let’s go to the village.’ The villages of Ovacık and Hisarönü are …