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 …
After three nights in the town of Bodrum and the good fortune of finding the Bodrum Datça ferry running on the day we wanted to travel, we arrived in Datça town. The plan was to stay for one night, just to spend a bit of time in the actual town rather than around the peninsula. …
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 …
One place our friend was keen to show us was Palamutbükü. ‘You’ll love it,’ he said. ‘It’s perfect.’ A little over 8 years ago, we were taken on a road trip to the Datça Peninsula for a short break with friends. It was November and Datça was deserted and beautiful. Just about everywhere we visited …
“Okay, let’s go to the grove and pick up the olives,” our friend’s dad said, grinning. Our friend rolled her eyes – this is all old hat to her – and asked us if we wanted to go and help harvest the olives (she quite clearly didn’t). Of course we wanted to go and help get …
When a friend asked us if we fancied a weekend on the Datça Peninsula a couple of weeks back, we jumped at the chance, especially when they mentioned the promise of seeing Knidos… After our long weekend in Istanbul in October, we thought our 2011 travels in Turkey were through. Datça was to be an …
The Datça Peninsula; wild, windy and just stunningly beautiful. That’s the impression we came back to Fethiye with last Monday after spending the weekend there with friends. It had been 8 years since we were last on this amazing stretch of land that juts out into the Mediterranean/Aegean Sea and, to be honest, while we …
I’ve been pondering this one for a few years so maybe someone could help me out in my ponderings. And here is my ponder…how do you define boundaries in a great big body of water? Where is the exact point where one sea or ocean stops and another one starts? More specifically, where does the …