Deniz Motel Datca

I was really overdue my holidays, finally getting to take it in October and I just signed up to two weeks of not doing much in Turkey with a couple of friends in a group. For me though not doing much isn't my cup of tea so I took every chance to re-live my old Turkey memories, from food, sights, sea, dancing and ahem, yes the men, again :)

Please come back soon as I update all the stories from the two weeks. Thanks.

... backwards out of the attic, broke a rib and punctured a lung. Thus, when we left, we were not at peak fitness.

After leaving Will we headed to Edinburgh airport, caught the flight to Heathrow and then got the 21.00 flight to Athens which arrived on time at 02.30 on Wednesday morning. Now all we had to do was hang around waiting for our flight at 08.55 in the morning. We found tolerably uncomfortable seats and settled down for a long wait.

At ...

Perser, Hellenen, Osmanen, Italiener und auch Deutsche - die Insel hat viele Herrscher und Besatzer gesehen und sieht sie noch: die Massentouristen.
Die Zeugnisse der vergangenen Perioden liegen zumeist in Trümmern, zum Teil verdeckt, zum Teil wieder ausgegraben - der Massentourismus hält noch an, und doch findet man sie überall: die Ruinen von "Burger Inn"s von Pubs, Restaurants und Souvenirshops. Zum Teil findet man ganze Straßenzüge, in denen ein ...

Strahlender Sonnenschein - wie gewöhnlich und eine sanfte Brise.
Mit dem Leihrad geht es die Küste entlang. Immer weiter, bis das Ende der Welt, genauer: der Straße erreicht ist.
Hier gibt es leider nur sehr wenige Schattenplätze an einer Imbißbude mit knatterndem Generator. Kein heimeliges Plätzchen, um die Aussicht zu genießen.
Weiter an der Küste entlang ginge es nur zu Fuß, am Hang entlang. Ob die Ödnis, die ...

... rkische Rivi**a und dann mit einem Wagen raus aus den Pauschaltouristenlöch**n!
Die Bootsfahrt dau**t jeweils etwas üb** ein** Stunde und ist bei dem sonnigwarmen Wett** angenehm.

Am Abend, wied** in Kos Stadt gibt es dann noch h**vorragendes griechisches Essen in d** Tav**na Alexandros hint** d** Kirche am Museumsplatz. Die griechische Platte ist günstig, und d** rote Hauswein schmeckt fast wie Kirschsaft. Ein rund** Ausklang des Tages.

... ein Zimmertausch möglich, der Nachtrezeptionist kann nur in Listen.
Das neue Zimmer ist zwar nicht der Hit, aber eine deutliche Steigerung, der Urlaub kann beginnen!
Die Wanderschuhe werden angezogen und es geht auf Erkundungstour quer durch die Stadt - hinauf nach Asklepion und zurück.
Asklepion, die Tempelruine, soll eine der größten ihrer Art sein. Es stellt ...

... kebab meat layered, speared and roasted. Turkish Kebab and Turkish Pizza was amazing! Not to forget the Turkish red wine!
But nothing could beat the experience of a boat ride around the Turkish coastline.
A small group - us - paid the crew of a nice boat to take us out for a day. The water was amazingly blue, clean and the bottom of the ocean seemed so close. We threw anchor. While we jumped into the big blue, the crew brought out fishing gear, caught ...

... ride and then wandered around Bodrum for a while.

We had no idea what to expect from our first muslim country. We had heard Turkish people were very friendly and this definitely proved to be true. The Kalendar family made us feel very at home. Something we noticed was a huge lack of Turkish women walking around by themselves or in groups. We definitely got a lot of looks when we were outside of the tourist areas.

That night we had a 5 course home-cooked Turkish meal ...

... a lot of the rural truck drıvers thınk of motorcyclısts as spoıled rıch kıds, and that once on hıs motorcycle, a truck drıver ran hım off the road. Booth asked ıf Teo had gone after the guy, and Teo responded that doıng that would have only confırmed the man's stereotypes, and would not have done any one any good down the road. It seemed to us lıke that was ...

... a loofah to exfoliate the **** out of you. The rolls of dead skin that come off are disgusting. Not to be too intimate, when he's done with your back side, he gives a dismissive pat with the back of his hand and grunts "Turn!". Both sides scraped to hell, you're ordered into the shower to rinse off. While waiting for the other victims in the steam room to get exfoliated, you ...