For many years, we’d walked along Fethiye harbour looking across the bay towards Club & Hotel Letoonia. It’s far from an unpleasant sight; traditionally-styled ‘bungalows’ with terracotta tiled roofs built onto the hillside and surrounded by lush green foliage. In the summer months, the vibrant pink of the bougainvillea bursts into view and frames the …
Over a few posts in the next couple of weeks, we want to take you on a little tour of a particular corner of Istanbul; Galata… Galata is an area we’ve always liked, but it’s a neighbourhood that we’ve really come to love over the last few days, purely because we’ve got to know it …
Budget’s the name of the game when ever we go away anywhere – and recently, when we were in Antalya for Runatolia, we again went on an online hunt for budget accommodation for our 3-night stay. We’ve learned the hard way with this, though, and past experience has taught us it’s a bit of a …
A couple of weeks back, while we were on the way back from our little overnight stay at Chakra Beach in Kabak, we decided to get off the dolmuş in Ölüdeniz, just for a wander around and to check in with a few people we’d not seen in a while. As we strolled along the …
When we were invited to like the Facebook page for Chakra Beach in Kabak, this really piqued our interest. It happens a lot on Facebook: “______ invited you to like their page.” Oh, go on then. Some you like out of politeness because it’s your friend, even though you’re not remotely interested in the subject …
In our previous post for our little Dalyan mini series we told you how to get from Fethiye to Dalyan by bus. For this post, we’ll tell you about where we stayed: Hotel Konak Melsa. Because all of this was just done on a whim. After doing a day trip to Dalyan from Fethiye on …
Hotel Unique, Fethiye is an architectural delight! Throughout the winter of 2013/14, we watched a hotel being built in an impossibly small space, in a cliff face, right in the middle of Fethiye. During that time, our opinions went from the ‘What the…?’ end of the spectrum to the ‘Well, just wow,’ end of the …
A while back, you may remember we stayed overnight in Kaş in a seafront hotel; Gardenia Boutique Hotel. That stay was very kindly passed on to us by a reader who could no longer go there. Idyllic autumnal views, everything starting to slow right down in Kaş, we just felt really chilled and relaxed after …
Have you got a place in the world that is just your determination to visit one day? Our first visit to Istanbul was all back to front. We were there for five days and it was our third day before we even caught sight of Aya Sofya, Sultanahmet Camii (the Blue Mosque) or Süleymaniye Camii …
And so it came to pass that Barry and Julia found themselves with the opportunity to stay in a seafront room of Gardenia Boutique Hotel in Kaş. We do love Kaş! But you know us; we’ll grab a hostel or pension wherever we go. As long as it’s got a clean bed to sleep in, we’re …