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Splendid Sunsets
There is something arresting about a sunset as that big old fiery ball of orange sinks below the horizon, usually last thing in the evening. Think they’re all the same? Think again.
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Remember The Winter?
Frankly, there’s not much of a downside to winter around here, but while you’re enduring the full-on strength of high summer, I’ve offered a few viewing options of winter-themed films to take your mind off the relentless heat.
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Elmali – A Town Of Mountains And Apples
This lovely upland town is surrounded by mountains and is famed for its apples, grown in thousands of orchards across the valley. It’s one of our favourite places to visit, especially in summer - the altitude makes it so much cooler than Fethiye.
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Charming Çıralı – And A Tribute To The D400
Çıralı is a charming, traditional coastal village, famed for the ruins of ancient Olympos and the Chimaera, the eternal flames that sprout out of the ground. It’s quite a place - and we even managed to avoid scorching our shoes!
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Meeting New Friends
Covid restrictions curtailed our freedom and denied us the company of friends, so I had to improvise and populated the garden with imaginary characters of a bushy nature. It was a bit worrying, to be honest...
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Springtime In Fethiye
Join me on a bike ride along The Blue Path of Beauty into Fethiye where I enjoy the resurgence of scent and colour as flowers come into bloom once again.
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Lockdown Living
The arrival of the pandemic forced us all to adapt to the new normal, where we heard rumours you could swap an Andrex twin-pack for a Renault Clio. On a personal level, I built a Jenga tower out of toilet rolls worth more than several bitcoin while Jan struggled with a buffering TV.
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Back On Board The Turistik Dogu Ekspresi
Aboard the train once more, we trundle back westwards again, visiting Divriği’s amazing Ulu Camii and hospital and wonderful Sivas before spending our final day in Ankara itself and paying our respects to Atatürk at the Anitkabir, his mausoleum at the heart of the capital.
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Kars. The Colder The Weather, The Warmer The People.
Bundled up against the bitter weather, we spend three days in Kars, visiting the haunting ruins of Ani right on the border with Armenia and taking a troika ride on the very firmly frozen Lake Çildir. Lordy, was it cold!
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All Aboard the Turistik Dogu Ekspresi To Kars
Join us on an epic 1300km railway journey eastwards right across Turkey to the thoroughly frozen town of Kars, stopping on the way to visit some wonderful places. Except Erzincan, where the train rumbled off. We were not on it!
