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Fethiye, Turkish Food, Slow Travel Turkey
In our last Babadağ post, we wrote about the event that took us up there; the live music performance as part of the Fethiye Classical Music Festival in memory of cellist, Benyamin Sönmez. There can't be many more perfect settings for live music than the top of the Fethiye area's highest mountain; …
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Memories from our time in Izmir: there are a lot of them. Food more than played it's part by way of the söğüş, Çeşme kumrusu and the stuffed mussels. In between meals, we also managed a bit of sightseeing. Of course, we couldn't go to Izmir without taking many photographs of the famous Izmir Saat …
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Istanbul has done what it does best and once again pushed itself to the forefront of our minds. That's what this city does to you. We're going to wander around the historic Egyptian spice Bazaar (Mısır Çarşısı) in this article. Mısır Çarşısı (the Egyptian Spice Bazaar) The Egyptian Spice …
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Yesterday evening and through the night, Fethiye had its first, long awaited, late summer rain. Heavy skies and humidity preceded it and we were grateful to wake up this morning to flat calm sea, views of the hills and, more importantly, a bit of fresh air. We're starting to wind down now after …
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Our previous post was a series of photos showing different scenes from the site of the temple of Leto, Letoon. This post is another photo story but this time, all the shots are of different areas of the site of Xanthos. While Letoon was the religious centre of the Lycian Federation, Xanthos was …
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Regular visitors to this blog will have worked out long ago that we're not big on covering all the main tourist sights of Turkey here. It's not that we don't want to! The problem is, we only started this blog a couple of years back when we'd already made numerous visits to Turkey and lived here on …
We posted about the boat trip from Fethiye to Göcek market last year and, last Sunday, we made the trip again. In this post, we'd like you to join us on our outing as we sail from Fethiye, across the bay to beautiful Göcek and back again. Our journey begins at 11 am, just after all the other …
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At exactly this time last year, we had just arrived in Istanbul and were walking down Istiklal Caddesi, heading towards Sultanahmet, after being dropped off by our service bus in Taksim Square. It had been a few years since we had last been to Istanbul and, despite a long bus journey with fitful …
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