Golden Sunset Hotel
Travel Blogs from Turgutreis
Week One Blog
... of rain, coupled with some cracking thunder and lightning storms.
The rain is needed badly here in Turkey as we have only had a few inches
of rain in the last eight months. This has had a bad effect on the local
olive picking, with the crops down some 30% on normal levels. Now however,
as I am writing this we have just had nearly two inches of rain overnight so
that is good, well for us anyway.
The week started well with England playing ...
Jewels of Turkey
... are very friendly and family orientated and I was surprised at how open they were with us. Loved it so much I have decided to save every penny for next year. Keeping an eye on the deals. Arranged through Travel Monster family holiday last year and will maybe try a different location in Turkey through the same company. Keep you ...
The Datca is good!
... It was so beautiful here. The Datça Peninsula is a long, narrow, mountainous finger of land that stretches west of Marmaris for about 100 kilometers. It extends into the sea like a long green dagger, a slice of green creating a natural division where the Mediterranean and Aegean seas meet. "
It was the complete opposite of Bodrum as far as lifestyle goes. We had found a good deal at a place called the Flow Datca Beach and surf ...
Party on Wayne!
... 17:30 , Tracy and I kept the party going until 1:30AM. We went on a little bar hopping tour of town. We went to a dancing bar, a rock bar, a sit down bar, and topped it all off with one more dancing bar!
I am writing this post 3 days later so I'm a little foggy on exact details. But you get the idea. Today was essentially a party day for us. The next day was a little rough going.
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Yes Please
... many people and each of them told us a different thing. Turns out the hotel was 200m in front of us, down this little hill and we just couldn't see it.
After that frustrating ordeal it was defiantly time to hit up the beach and have a few Efes ( the main beer in Turkey ) We stayed on the beach until 8:00 and watched the sun set. The sunset obviously wasn't as picturesque as Santorini but still very nice. There are ...