Hotel Azka Bodrum

... with an angle grinder and got us aboard at 05.30. <br><br>We slept the sleep of the just and innocent until 10.00 on Thursday morning and woke to a warm sunny day with the impossibly blue Lakki Bay glistening its welcome.<br><br>Since then we have been enjoying the large yellow thing in the sky (it has ****** down for the last 2 months in Scotland) and the general feeling of well-being that a little sunshine can bring.<br><br>After doing various jobs on the ...

Perser, Hellenen, Osmanen, Italiener und auch Deutsche - die Insel hat viele Herrscher und Besatzer gesehen und sieht sie noch: die Massentouristen.<br>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.<br>Mit dem Leihrad geht es die Küste entlang. Immer weiter, bis das Ende der Welt, genauer: der Straße erreicht ist.<br>Hier gibt es leider nur sehr wenige Schattenplätze an einer Imbißbude mit knatterndem Generator. Kein heimeliges Plätzchen, um die Aussicht zu genießen.<br>Weiter an der Küste entlang ginge es nur zu Fuß, am Hang entlang. Ob die Ödnis, die ...

... warum das Ehepaar neben mir denn nur 20 Euro zahlen müsse lautet die Antwort: "Special Price", denn sie wären von Ihr** Reisegruppe - das Ehepaar spricht all**dings Deutsch und von ein** Reisegruppe wissen sie nichts;-)<br>Am Ticketschalt** bezahlt man dann nochmals Passkontrollsteu**. Auf dem Beleg steht 3 Euro, v**langt w**den 4,20 Euro, mangels Kleingeld w**den es 4 Euro - int**essante Rechnung.<br>Muß man Bodrum gesehen haben? Die Festung ...

... heraus, dass heute der Eintritt frei ist - ganz so wenig wert wäre ein regulärer Eintritt nicht gewesen, aber viel zu sehen, außer ein paar nett renovierten Treppen gibt es nicht wirklich...<br>In Kos Stadt stellt sich "Fidelio" als ein netter Ort für leckere grischische Kost heraus - direkt neben einem "Holland Snack" gelegen, am Ausgrabungsgelände entlang, rund 150m von ...

Even if you know of Bodrum in Turkey you probably don't know of Milas, a town inland from Bodrum about 1hour by mini-bus. I liked Milas better than Bodrum.<br><br><br><br>Coming from my previous days in Kapikiri to the north of Milas I was fortunate in that the day I chose to move on was coincidentally the day of the Tuesday market in Milas. And my pension host, Emin, was going to the market, thus providing me not only a ride out to the highway at Bafa ...

... an employee cafeteria of sorts where we attempted to get manti and karpus but were told that we could not. Instead, we settled for crackers and water in the visitor's section. Many sections of the museum closed down from 12-1 for lunch, but you can still wander the open-air areas. Another interesting aspect of the museum is that there are many artists who display different kinds of work throughout the museum that you can buy. Josh got a handblown glass ring with the nazar ...

... or Antalya/Antalya (Gulf of Kekova) : Lycian archeological sites: Phaselis, Olympus (Chimera), the ancient city of Myra and the sunken city of Kekova. Optional touring of important sites like Aspendos Theater, Perge... Boats Built in the tradition of the local sponge divers and fishermen, our boats are magnificent and luxurious wooden yachts that can accommodate from 6 to 24 people (some air-conditioned cabins are available). Our boats have 4 to 12 cabins ...

... else I was saved the anguish of paying for a site in which most of the displays were closed and which was itself closing in 40 minutes. The old crusader-built castle did yield two interesting faces to me though: a proto-graffiti of carved crests and writings in latin in the English tower (mostly 'I was here' sort of thing, as far as I can tell, will try to put up photos); and a dungeon! The latter was excavated in 1990 after 470 years of being shut up behind rubble. Upon ...

... wondering just how much humiliating **** is going to come off my own skin, and all of a sudden - it just doesn't matter. I am being washed, really scrubbed, by a woman - mid-wife?- who is giving me a fresh look, a new chance. She is my guide, my deliverance from a recently murky and unpleasant past, full of tears, anguish, pain and confusion. I am laying on this hot marble, being cleansed, and thinking: why am I here? Why am I in this fertile valley of the planet, climbing ancient ...