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Travel Blogs from Alanya
Turkey Day 4
... me. On the way back to the ship with only minutes before I would leave turkey for good, I saw one last group of old ladies. So I put on my biggest smile andpractially glowed my way toward them. They smiled at me. VICTORY! I like to think I fixed what everI was doing wrong--likely not. I will likely find all of the middle aged men hate me in Cyprus...sigh... Mary i like the socks made by old ladies, sol by old ladies on the side of the street in tourist areas here are ...
Turkey Turkey turkey!!!
... ONLY served wine beer vodka and raki. The beer, well you could drink 20 in one sitting and not be drunk the vodka you could drink straight and it tasted like 75% water the rest vodka the raki will kick your ass (becaus it is a Turkish drink) and the wine, well we found out by trial was what was making me sick!!! So I stopped drinking the wine! One of the night club promotors asked us to come to the disco and even tried selling us on "you ...
NO ENGLISH!!!
... on it and remember his friend
telling us about it so I picked that one 60 euro each ok no problem… we have no
money I have 600 Canadian with me… that they WON’T exchange at the front desk!
We set out to find a bank as we have to pay right then… 40 minutes of walking
in +35 with a humidex of over 40 and my
thighs and everything else sticking together we find a bank! YES! Walk back pay
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Supporting the Irish!
After a 7 hour bus journey, I arrived and met up with Tim. I was staying at Club Nena, but the Tennis and players were at the Ali Bey next door, and once I'd negotiated the security I spent most of my time at Ali Bay with Tim and the Irish team, returning to Nena to sleep..
It was good fun, and in the middle of the week I decided that I didn't feel like slow-travelling back to London, so took a flight to Zurich, train to Dijon and was back in Marcilly on 16th.
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De Turkse Riviera
Een andere wereld, 25 jaar terug en nu. De kust is volgebouwd, het strand amper te zien. De spaanse kust -de costas, Benidorm...- groeten. Kamperen, zoeken maar...We hebben een camping gevonden tussen Manavgat en Cenger, Camping Osay (12 Euro, internetaansluiting), mooi, veel schaduw, direkt aan zee, rustig....tot 24 uur s'nachts en dan weer vanaf 03 uur s'morgens.
Alanya, het oude piratennest, ,niet terug te herkennen, eindeloos hotelketens, maar ...
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Amenities
- Swimming pool
- Fitness/Health center
- Pets allowed