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Fantastic online booking for greek island hopping
... helped us plan our itinerary within our budget. They also gave us great information about the islands, so we were able to pick the most interesting and lively hot-spots. Their online services proved to be flexible and very easy to manage bookings. Within such a short space of time, our yacht, timetable and destinations were all organised, and at such fantastic prices! I'm now looking forward to a week in the ...
Relaxing on the beach
Beach time! After getting my head stuffed full of knowledge in the various libraries of Greece
and Turkey it was off to Marmaris for some relaxation and beach time. The beach was so lovely and sandy and yet so empty. If there was a beach like this anywhere near home it would have been packed with people outside enjoying the sunshine. I suspect that it is different during the summer months! As there were so ...
Oops... Major Mugla Mistake!
... they exited at her city's bus stop (a 30 minute detour).
Still, a part of us realized something was wrong -- when the journey lasted 5.5 hours instead of 3; when after a certain stop Katie said "It's weird we're going back up into the mountains again, shouldn't we just be following the sea?" (um yes we should have gotten off before going back into the mountains). We truly realized our mistake when we got into a taxi at Mugla, showed the driver the print out of ...
Fethiye - in search of butterflies
... only ones there and were told the next dolmus (minibus) was 10 minutes away and it was an extra 3TL each (scammers). The salesman was also confusingly speaking in near rhyme and not making any sense. Too much smiling at inappropriate times, and never actually answering our questions, such as 'where do we catch the first bus from,' 'how will we know what connecting bus to get on?' Consequently we had to work it out ourselves, as he then proceeded to sit back in his chair ...
A day at the Beach
... and not very attractive by our standards. We stayed there for a couple of hours and then back on the tour boat where they served us up fresh fish and salad which was beautiful, Brian was dry reaching with the smell (he doesn’t like fish). Then two hours back down the marshes again to the bus.
The owner of the tour boats (old fishing boats done up) was a real character, he had three on the go with about 35 on each. The owner was called Fasha from ...