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Seyfi Dayi Koy Sofrasi in Kirazli – small but perfect

Just a quickie, because I’m tied up with other stuff but this is worth mentioning – On the way back from diving yesterday we stopped at one of the tiny little sofrasi in Kirazli valley for a late late breakfast and it was wonderful. It…
  • Seyfi Dayi Koy Sofrasi in Kirazli – small but perfect

The Protests in Turkey – 12th June 2013

Update 17th June – Message boards are notorious for veering off topic but we’re finding sensible updates for travelers on the situation in Istanbul can be found here on the Lonely Planet Thorntree forum. This link takes you to page 4 of the discussion for…
  • The Protests in Turkey – 12th June 2013

The Protests in Turkey….

Update 17th June – Message boards are notorious for veering off topic but we’re finding sensible updates for travelers on the situation in Istanbul can be found here on the Lonely Planet Thorntree forum. This link takes you to page 4 of the discussion for…
  • The Protests in Turkey….
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A beautiful day of diving in the Aegean

Some days it all comes together on a dive; the shallow caverns, swimthroughs and underwater rock falls swarm with fish, the light is just right, the camera behaves and your buoyancy is perfect and you can hover in the blue light and take pictures that…
  • A beautiful day of diving in the Aegean

Actually Living in Turkey – Frequently asked questions.

When you live here you tend to take a lot of the lifestyle for granted because you’re just basically busy living it; you glance at the view from the window and find it beautiful but you don’t spend all day lost in it, you admire…
  • Actually Living in Turkey – Frequently asked questions.
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Five Reasons to Learn to Dive in Turkey

When we talk to people visiting the area about scuba diving so many say “I’d love to try it but I don’t know if I’d like it!” and many more say “I wish I had thought of it before I came and prepared!” Neither of…
  • Five Reasons to Learn to Dive in Turkey
Village April

Now Hear This….

It is a warm afternoon in early April, the guests have gone to be amazed by Ephesus, Nick is having his afternoon nap and I’m lying on the cushions beside the pool with my eyes shut against the stabs of sunlight cutting through the occasional…
  • Now Hear This….
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These things take time

I am not a great gardener but I know what I like; I like my garden filled and rambling, with plants clambering up walls and spilling out of containers and twined around railings. Back home in Wales with a 1/3 of an acre of garden…
  • These things take time
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Popping out to do the shopping

It’s Saturday afternoon, time to do the weekly shop, not really a major chore in Turkey in spring time. Normally Nick goes to the market because he likes shopping and I like time to myself but with the sun shining after a few days of…
  • Popping out to do the shopping
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Ephesus – Spring 2013 and Ephesian interior design

Ephesus is just the other side of the hill from us, we drive past it every time we go into Selcuk and every time we go diving we see the big bite out of the hillside that is the great theatre and it reminds us…
  • Ephesus – Spring 2013 and Ephesian interior design
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Making money from your rental property in Turkey

The big developers that build the cookie cutter resorts that crawl across the Turkish hillsides, eating up olive groves and blasting terraces out of the ochre cliffs, are fond of bigging up the rental potential of their complexes. At the end of the day, when…
  • Making money from your rental property in Turkey
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Bee Pollen – At the Very Least Good for the Soul

You know how it is, you’ve never heard of something and then you discover it and suddenly you see it everywhere and feel like a total tit for not having noticed it before. That happened to me with bee pollen. Last autumn Nick came back…
  • Bee Pollen – At the Very Least Good for the Soul
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What to do in March……

Hurray it’s spring! Bouncing into March with a spring in our steps and sun on our bones (getting old, need heat!) and a bright beautiful blue bowl of a sky above us. It was an incredibly wet winter this year but mercifully short and we’ve…
  • What to do in March……
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What is Turkey like in winter – Part Two

All change for the season……. The villagers change their houses radically for winter, some rooms are abandoned totally as furniture is heaved around (by the women), sobas are reassembled from their component parts which have been stored in the goat shed all summer (by the…
  • What is Turkey like in winter – Part Two
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What’s Turkey like in winter – part one

Is it cold in Turkey in winter? The short answer is yes. There is a longer answer, so please read on. Most people are shocked by their first winter in Turkey, they have a moved to a country they probably knew in summer when it…
  • What’s Turkey like in winter – part one
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