Irme Hotel
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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
... I made friends with some ducks instead. At first they were a little nervous about me – I guess maybe all the cats they know chase ducks. I’m a civilised cat though and I would rather be friends with them. Once I convinced them we spent some time playing happily on the beach. The warmth is wonderful – especially when I think about how cold it’s getting back home now. ...
Oops... Major Mugla Mistake!
Tuesday morning, we have a breakfast at the hotel (great, as usual), run outside of the Old City to use an ATM and check out the old Clock Tower, and then get to the Otogar where we hop our bus to Fethiye.
Or so we think.
We used Metro Turizm bus company for our prior three bus rides, and liked them a lot. Very professional, up-to-par technology (individual TVs on the back of the headrests, sometimes able to charge our devices, sometimes even able to use ...
A day at the Beach
... to the boat where they supplied "lunch", not very nice. Then we traveled towards the sea to Kaunos at Ekincik where ancient city was founded sometime in the Archaing period about 150BC. The cliff face has craved Tombs cut into the solid rocks. A more romantic and beautiful location for this jewel of a city can hardly be imagined jutting out from the nearby wooded hills into the marsh lands. Then we went into the fish farms through a gate in the channel and along the ...
Visit to Marmaris Castle
Hi All
We are now in Marmaris, we all had a sleep in this morning to about 9.00 and then went to breakfast, a lovely Turkish breakfast at the marina dining room. We had a team meeting and decided to catch the bus and go to the ancient castle in Marmaris.
Previously, when we were in Bencik, we were pulling the anchor up and low and behold up came a pottery handle which we thought might be from an ancient amphora (big ...