‘Mezze – Small Plates To Share ,’ is a book packed with recipes by award winning, Cordon Bleu trained cookery writer, broadcaster and journalist, Ghillie Başan. The best food should always carry with it stories and happy memories of life events, travels, chance meetings, making new friends or spending quality time with old friends and …
Hmm, I think we can well and truly say, Fethiye is definitely on the music map of Turkey, these days. Past blog posts in years gone by have seen us sulking a tad because none of our favourite Turkish bands – even non-favourite Turkish bands for that matter – ever had Fethiye as part of …
If you’re wondering what book to read next, let us make a suggestion for you… Yes, what seems like many many moons ago, we wrote a gushing book review of Jack Scott’s debut book, Perking The Pansies ; Jack and Liam Move To Turkey. We loved it! If you’re not familiar with Jack Scott, he’s …
“Hi Barry and Julia. Apologies for the slow reply. We had a terrible forest fire in Adrasan over the weekend and I was helping friends out…” And life’s like that. The author of the book we’d been invited to review couldn’t reply to us because she was helping friends in a clean up operation after …
Long ago, in a faraway corner of Southwest Turkey, the residents of Fethiye were going about their daily business as usual, when, all of a sudden, from out of the blue, some startling news appeared before them… Oh, how excited the Fethiye folks became when they heard that the new James Bond film Skyfall was …
We’ve hit the kitchen to showcase three different Turkish recipes and all three of them have been chosen from the cookery book, The Sultan’s Kitchen – A Turkish Cookbook . You’ll have to wait one more day to see which recipe we chose to follow for our starter because, as promised, today is all about …
There are a few of us Turkey bloggers around these days and one that we’ve followed for some time has taken it upon himself to write a book. It’s often said that we’ve all got a book in us. And, well, if that’s true, not all of us are going to actually sit down to …
Yesterday, we posted about the live performances at the Telmessos theatre in Fethiye. We’d heard Louis de Bernieres might be making an appearance so we went along out of curiosity – and in the hope of catching a glimpse of my favourite author. At the end of the performances, Louis de Bernieres, who had been …