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Bodrum Slideshow
Bodrum
Travel Blogs from Bodrum, Turkey
Basement-Bound
... views of the lovely Castle of St Peter, sat down, and had some delicious vegetarian food whilst sipping a bottle of Efes -- Turkey's finest. We enjoyed a starlit meander home and discussed our impressions of the city thus far. We both ...
Bodrum een heerlijke herrie stad
... , ruimen op en lezen bij. De dag vliegt om. We zijn bijna geheel alleen in onze baai. De volgende dag vertrekken we vroeg naar Bodrum, want we hebben kans op een halve wind de eerste 3 uur. De richting van de wind is er, als we vertrekken, maar de wind ...
Family - The Drive to Bodrum
... the mountains, almost above the cloud line and out of the rain. After that, we drove through farming country until the turn-off to Bodrum. The approach into Bodrum was lovely. The peninsula is surrounded by islands, and the water was the typical blue, ...
Biking the Bodrum Peninsula
... Asia. The seed was planted and I couldn't be deterred -- I really pushed for renting a bike and exploring the Bodrum Peninsula. Whether it was the batting of my eyelashes, the tossing of my hair, or my generally charming personality, I can't ...
Turkey 04
... ). Before we knew it they had shot off in search of other travellers venturing up to higher ground. Bodrum This town is on the south west tip of Turkey and unfortunately for us, like Pamukkale, it was packed full of package holiday tourists (we later ...
Final slice of Turkish delight
... and cakes and biscuits at various points throughout the journey. We would definitely recommend bus travel for getting around Turkey. The travel to Bodrum was first class but accommodation this time was a bit of a letdown. The guys kept us waiting at the ...
Terug naar Turkije
... " het is ’s werelds grootste Ionische tempel ter wereld (120 bij 60 meter). (Waar hebben we dat meer gehoord, in Bodrum?). Via een minimarkt hebben we een telefoonnummer gekregen om een busje te bestellen die ons er naar toe brengt, ik ben benieuwd ...
Down the valley go we
... by a young Turkish man, a motorist, speaking fluent English, and who had been a professor in the USA before recently moving back to Turkey. It was really starting to feel cold all of a sudden and with the dark coming we had to curtail the conversation and ...
(One of) The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
... sun-shiney day -- fantastic! We spent about an hour exploring the ruins and looking through the museum explaining the history of the historic structure, and then made our way back into Bodrum to continue the enjoyment of our first Turkish vacation. ...
Didyma and Eurosos
... at a touristy restaurant across the road (just water for me, Scott and Simon had very non-Turkish food) then headed on to Bodrum. Along the way we passed even more random ruined marble buildings, but only stopped when a fully intact, small temple called ...
Stormy Bodrum
... the middle of this rural cotton country, in a little mall of factory outlet stores. What a strange geographical warp! As we entered Bodrum we tried to find “Best Camping” which our favorite guide book said was nearest to town. We never did ...
Arrival in Bodrum
... a huge, royal blue lake surrounded by jagged mountains covered in velvety forest, then drove along the dazzling coast a ways - and Bodrum itself was a lovely, if overly planned, sanitised, and matchy-matchy resort town. We parked in a parking garage and ...
Bodrum Underwater Archaeology Museum, Marmaris
... rental car by taking it to another country, anyway. After the ferry was booked and confirmed, we headed over to the Bodrum Underwater Archaeology Museum, which has artifacts from ancient shipwrecks. It is also located inside a castle, so, bonus points ...
Nothing
Nothing to report.....lay by the pool and contemplated the problems of the world, which remained mostly unresolved. But, we had a wonderful dinner in a restaurant by the sea in the village. The bouillabaisse was, reportedly the best meal this ...
Happy Birthday Gary
... 11 year old! Easily, one of the best $20 spent in my hirsute life thus far. The birthday dinner, along with spaklers and song, was overlooking the Bodrum Marina and castle. Wonderful meal, wonderful view and even better company. ...
Where are all the rabbits
Well here we are again ,beautiful morning , not a cloud in the sky ......nope , not even if we look really hard ! We decided that a saunter down to Gumsluk to try and get in touch with our loved ones [ Harry if you are reading this we mean you ! ] ...
Farewell to the crew
A quick trip to the Yalikavik markets, via the doctor just to check that the medication given to Sally for her gastro was correct. With his wicked sense of humour more akin to the stage, he diagnosed food intoxication, recommending either some medication ...
Yalikavak and back........
... , our excursion to Cappadoccia. The travel agent looked at us bemused with our request, telling us how difficult this would be and that Turkey is a wery large countwee. Not only did we arrange to get there, we decided to stop for two nights in a ...
Getting settled.
Not surprisingly, this morning was a little slow - more for some than others, but let's just say a late brunch on the balcony did the trick. The sun was shining and the wind now howling through the hills but the view was astounding. This is a ...
Bafa and beyond
... Liz a rest from the role she had taken on for the last few days . The drive took us into unchartered territory , past Bodrum airport heading inland and North. The scenery was fascinating but belied the surprise that was it held in store for us. Many ...
Bodrum
... . Health and safety would have gone mad. I wouldn't like to have done the risk assessment on that one. So, back in Turkey tonight. Another little hidden away Pansiyon, and yet again, I appear to be the only guest. Saturday 5th November Not my ...
Bodrum highlights
... him in) we set off. We had bought a Nazar 'blue eye' to take as a gift for the restaurant. These are everywhere in Bodrum. Businesses have them by the entrance and often inside as well. People believe it stops the ‘evil eye’. When we gave ...
A day on the seven seas
Into the pimp mobile (our black van with darkened windows) once again, and we made our way to Bitez (with the occasional dead end street and 16 point turn, with Dave directing), to rendezvous with Zarif, skipper of the Siesta, a gulet small enough to ...
Assault on the Flag of Turkey
How good it is to sleep in a bed having unpacked all your stuff. Bloody marvellous. Like coming home. Another healthy breakkie with the crowd and we were off for our morning constitutional - a walk to the flagpole on the hill near the village of ...
Road Trip!
Anna (if you recall from November-May) had come back to Turkey and was having her 50th bday party at her house in Bodrum, another coastal city in Turkey. Not to mention, it was 1 year since I came to Turkey and I did not feel like being in Antalya. It ...
Bodrum/Turkey
Sunday 6th November I started out quite early to visit the old windmills that stand on the top of one of the hills above Bodrum harbour. It was sunny and after last nights cold wind I thought quite warm. I was though the only person in shirtsleeves, ...
The boat and the hamam
... , made the day a memorable one. So much so that we visited them on the boat most days for the rest of the time we were in Bodrum. We decided to finish our day with a hamam, or Turkish bath. We were the only people in the place, (apart from his 2 children ...
Santorini
Kristin just won 1,000,000 pounds...aka 2,000,000 dollars. NEVER COMING BACK - MIKE Ok, now for reality...We are in Santorini and it is gorgeous!!! We love it here. Yesterday was 75 and sunny all day long. We just laid out at our swimming pool in our ...
Bodrum here we come
... declined & sent them directly to Istanbul with the rest of the luggage. I had splurged on business class airfares from Istanbul to Bodrum because the price was ridiculously cheap. The flight was only an hour, but, we thought, why not? When we got our ...
Exploring the south
... the marina. It was very windy and extremely unusual for Bodrum. Back to the house for Karen's first homecooked meal in Turkey. Leyla, Dilara's mom made İzmir meatballs, salad, and zucchini pancakes. We had dinner with Dilara's grandparents too- Yusuf ...