A late summer road trip around parts of Turkey’s Lake District. First stop, for a photographic driving break, was other-worldly Salda Gölü. Then it was time to move on to our base for the next few days, Eğirdir. Barry had done the accommodation research and we plumped for Göl Pension on the town’s Yeşilada Peninsula. …
Sometimes, you just get lucky! Very lucky, for us, on this occasion. A proper wow moment as we stepped out onto the balcony of our little apartment at Fora Apart Hotel in Datça. We’d just had three great nights in springtime Bodrum and made the leisurely ferry journey to our next destination. If you remember …
This is how it came to pass that we ended up staying in the rather elegant 1207 Boutique Hotel in the old town of Kaleiçi. This year’s trip to Antalya for the Runtalya event was a bit different. You know us; we’re happy in a small pension. ,s long as there’s a clean bed and …
We’ve stayed at various camps in Faralya and Kabak over the years, and, this time, it was the turn of Full Moon Camp… Life’s little traditions. For my birthday, we always go to Antalya. It’s round about the same time as Runatolia so that tradition has happened by default. For Barry’s birthday, it’s an escape …
Dantel Pension in Antalya’s old town, Kaleiçi, ticked all of our boxes. Clean room? Check. Comfy bed? Check. Decent breakfast? Check. In a good spot? Check. Great for our budget? Check. Yeah, these are all the things we look for when we’re booking our digs for any little jaunt we do. Whenever we go to …
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 …
We had friends here recently and when we suggested doing something…and then they suggested going to Kabak…happy days! This time, our overnight stay was at Tree Houses, Kabak. If you follow this blog a lot, you’ll know we’re big fans of Kabak Koyu. A place to go and chill out away from the rest of …
We’re starting to get quite a little collection of comfortable, familiar go to places whilst on our travels around Turkey. In Antalya old town, we’ve got Hotel Twenty (we stayed there again on our last visit), in Kaş we’ve got Meltem Pension, Istanbul is the exceptional Istanbul Place Apartments and now, we’ve found a great …
When we were in Istanbul back in April, you may remember we got to stay in a very swanky apartment overlooking the Bosphorus. An apartment where we felt like we were living in the neighbourhood of Galata for a few days. We also looked around some of the other Istanbul Place Apartments and said we …
(Update 2017: If you want a bit more luxury, Sultan Camp now also has deluxe bungalows with en suite bathrooms. There are also tents for hire if you want to be ‘under canvas.’) We love staying at Olive Garden, Chakra Beachand Tree Houses in Kabak – but, this time, we thought we’d go to one …