The Setting:Fethiyespor Football Stadium, 23rd March 2013: It’s the 80th anniversary of Fethiyespor Football Club and the match is being aired live on Lig TV; the first time the club have been shown live on the channel. A carnival atmosphere is expected as an online campaign has been rallying supporters and tickets for two of …
In our last post, we took you on a walk from Çalış to Çiftlik. If you remember, we were going to explore Çiftlik market. Well, for this week’s Turkish Food Focus, we’re concentrating on said market, real name, Çiftlik Perşembe Pazarı (Çiftlik Thursday Market). We had no idea what to expect when we arrived but …
Walking to Çiftlik from Çalış is really easy because you can’t get lost, it’s flat (bonus!) and it’s a good bit of painless exercise after you’ve had cabin fever from rain-gazing through the window. Similar to last year, it’s been a mild winter but it’s been a wet winter. Last week, there was a lull …
Our favourite food market is the Fethiye Friday village market (Cuma Köy Pazarı). We write a lot about the local food markets in Turkey but we’ve never written about our favourite one – until today that is. Fethiye Friday Market Cuma Köy Pazarı means the Friday Village Market and that’s why we like to go …
Dazzling white sands, sea gently lapping on the shore, lush green forest as a backdrop. No, we’re not in the Maldives. We’re at Aksazlar Beach in Fethiye. A few years ago, whenever people came to Fethiye for a summer holiday, the general assumption used to be that if a day at the beach was in …
The Çalış Sunday market. Regular visitors to this blog will know we have a love of markets; markets of the foodie variety. We sometimes visit our local ones here in Fethiye three times a week; Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays are spoken for in our house. And, if we miss one of those, we’ve even been …
It’s Friday and it’s time for the last Fethiye photo for the month of March. A couple of weeks back, we had a photo of a view of Fethiye marina from the Karagözler – but the week before that, we were finally able to include an Ölüdeniz shot into the series. The photo is an almost …
The Lycian rock tombs in Fethiye with the tomb of Amyntas holding prime position, overlook the town and the bay below. These rock cut tombs, dating from the Lycian period , are arguably Fethiye’s most famous archaeological site. Today, the west side of the Mediterranean coast of Turkey is part of the beautiful Turquoise Coast. …
Tuesday; Fethiye market day and one of our favourite pastimes. How can food shopping ever be a chore when you’ve got a weekly carnival of seemingly endless rows of market stalls? All packed with the current produce of the season intermingled with the regular staples? The colours, the aromas – citrus in winter, the sweet …
The Çalış water taxi is an institution and its running signals the start of the summer season each year. We make every effort not to take too much for granted living in Fethiye – but sometimes, much as we try not to, we overlook things of beauty that are right under our noses. Daily life …