For many of our first few years of living in Fethiye, Olympos in the Antalya Province was a bit of a holy grail that we were in search of. It was that place where the travelling backpackers (many of them Aussies and Kiwis) hopped onto a gület in Fethiye harbour and took off to sail …
The engines of the gület slowed to a steady purr as we pulled into the natural sweeping harbour. Somewhere in that dense pine forest was the ancient city of Phaselis. For now, however, it was the pine trees and a curve of sandy beach that greeted us. And there was indeed a ticket booth on …
The Turkish gület cruise; that most graceful of prima ballerinas of the southern and southwestern Turkish seas. Every year, thousands of people travelling or holidaying in the country will book themselves a Turkey gület cruise as part of their Turkish experience. Depending on their wont and the company they book with, they will either party …
There are so many beautiful places you can head to as a day out from Fethiye, without even having to drive that far. Yuvarlakçay Yeşil Vadi Restaurant is one of those places. We’ve just had friends here for their summer holiday. They suggested getting a car for the day and going for a little wander. …
Because we wanted to see the ruins of ancient Myra again, we did a mini D400 coastal road trip rather than returning via the quicker yayla mountain road. Back in March of this year, we were in Antalya for Runtalya, a running event that Barry took part in. If you followed the posts, you’ll know …
These days, the D400 is wide and forgiving. (Free) tunnels cut out the higher mountain roads, the tarmac is smooth in most places. And, if you give yourself lots of time, there are fabulous detours you can take, like this one down to the beach at Adrasan Koyu (Adrasan Bay). In our previous post, we …
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 …
There are many cities and regions in Turkey that are famous for particular recipes or foods – and Antalya is no exception to the case. And if you’re in the city centre, a visit to Topçu Kebap is very rewarding! We’re there most years for the Runtalya Marathon event so we get to enjoy this …
In a previous article, we wrote about another day trip from Fethiye; Sarıgerme Beach. Well, if you’re anything like us and you start to feel a bit restless once you’ve finished admiring the beach scenery, you need somewhere to move on to. Sarıgerme is part of Ortaca and just a tad further along the D400 …
In January 2011, we took a few winter photos of Sarıgerme Beach and, since that date, until recently, we’d neither looked at that blog post nor been back to Sarıgerme. When my dad was here in October, that changed. It changed because he’d been earwigging on the plane over to here and had heard a …