On 2nd July 2024, a ceremony was held in both Marmaris and Fethiye to mark the inaugural journey of the Fethiye Marmaris seabus. The previous day had seen similar ceremonies as the Bodrum – Turgutreis – Didim seabus also made its inaugural journey. The idea of them is to relieve heavy summer road traffic and …
It’s the place we all love when we arrive – and the place many love to hate as they leave. We’re talking about Dalaman Airport. Dalaman Airport Guide Along with Bodrum Milas Airport to the west and Antalya Airport to the east, Dalaman Airport is one of the most important airports for the Turkish tourism …
Early morning sunlight glints on the water as we queue for passport control to board the Fethiye to Rhodes ferry. Since the 2022 summer season, thankfully, ferry services between the Turkish coast and the beautiful Greek islands once more resumed. And that meant we could once more enjoy the high-speed ferry trip to Rhodes island! …
Recently, we had decided it was time to hit the water and get from A to B by way of the Bodrum Datça ferry… If you read this blog a lot, you’ll know most of our travels around Turkey are done via public transport of the non-flying variety. Getting around is so easy. We’ve used …
It all got kick started with a wedding invite. We’d been talking through summer about maybe taking off for a few days at the beginning of October – some vague plans of hiring a car, taking in some archaeological sites and having a wander; a bit like our East Turkey road trip. An invite to …
If you can’t think of any reason why you’d want to head over to the Asian side of Istanbul, the Eminönü to Kadıköy ferry is more than a decent excuse. Over the years, most of our posts about our various jaunts have covered our exploits around the European shores of Istanbul. Asian Side But, Istanbul …
Antalya: to drive or not to drive; that is the question. Well, we’re big fans of public transport in Turkey and Fethiye to Antalya by bus (and vice versa) is a perfectly simple (and cheap) exercise. But when we went to Antalya in March we decided to take a hire car with us so we …
For lots of visitors to the Fethiye area, Dalyan has always been that place where you go on an organised day trip from Fethiye. A transfer from Fethiye to Dalyan, before getting in a boat and sailing along the river to look at the Lycian ruins and going on to the sulphur mud baths before …
We’re taking you on an East Turkey road trip from Patnos, Ağrı and back to Patnos again, over three days and two nights. It’s around 500 miles in total with not a motorway in sight (nice!) and this is the trip we made in May 2013 with friends. So, the map below is the route …
“Have you brought your driving license?”“Yeah, why?”“Good. We’re going on a road trip. You’re driving.” We’d just got off the bus from Erzurum, which was immediately preceded by 20 hours or so on the Doğu Express train from Ankara. Time delays meant we’d decided to stay with our friend for just a couple of days…and …