Irme Hotel Turgutreis

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... to the mud baths and I was abandoned for an hour to go and explore.



You had to pay to enter the mud baths, even if you didn't go in and I have to admit (at the risk of sounding a snob - after visiting the blue lagoon (Iceland) there was no way I getting in the water/mud here!! It was hard to distinguish where the actual 'natural healing' spring started and where it was ...

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.

... tour to an island that will most likely also have undergone a similar transition.

Does this actually benefit the area? I have to assume that it does, that the number of tourists who travel through from cruise liners and package holidays enjoy the ability to simply relax away from home, thus bringing in vital income to the area. But I hope that areas that cater to the travellers market (for people like myself) is not ignored as ...

... that I do not want in my life. And yet. when my mind is in ‘complaint mode’, it’s like a hurricane that cannot be stopped. It sees nothing but the righteous reasons to suffer and complain.
I thought I was prepared for times like this. I have written pages upon pages to help me in such ‘emergencies’. Conflict resolution techniques that can help me break down the challenges and move into a calmer state of mind. But when my mind is ...

Awoke near Pamukkale and paid a scandalous amount to get in. 10 pounds each to see some tepid pools of water. Even the initially striking karstic rock was pretty much covered in faint brown footprints. The extorsion didn't end there as it turned out that Cleopatra's Baths, the hot spring at the top was an additional cost. We thought we could get away with just paying for one of us to get in and then swapping the ...

... br>We left Sirinche around 1:00 PM, headed for the cool Koygezis waterfall...In no time though we were back in Selcuk...right next to Ephesus...TIME 4! To say I was furious and beside myself was an understatement, but I also felt helpless. I had thought that it was likely our lunch stop was actually in the direction of where we were going...thought wrong... Kristen and I could have spent the whole morning at Ephesus and we wouldn't have had to make the bus go out of ...

... destination again today and this makes us feel great.

Bodrum is the Turkish name of Alikarnasos, once belonged to Greece. Greeks had to leave behind their belongings - businesses, houses, - and flee to other countries to be saved after the Turkish persecution in 1922. (My grandfather was one of them who left behind everything and went to the Island of Cyprus in a boat to be saved. His brother got in another boat for Greece, and they had never ...

... the world, if it is not a pine tree, is probably a thorn bush. Even the ones with the pretty yellow flowers that look from a distance like Scotch Broom.

An irony was--well, two, actually--I began the hike/climb at the base where there was a sign indicating the beginning of a segment of the Lycian Way (http://www.lycianway.com/index.html). I hiked up the trail a short way to a point that, marked by a power line pylon, I thought was at the base of the "cleared" up slope line. I ...

... are higher and there are thus fewer breeding grounds for mosquitoes. One evening we were invited for dinner to the home of friends, Kate and Chas, an American-Welsh couple who have lived here now for three years. They like it so much that they have decided to sell their sailboat and stay permanently. Their house is perched on a hill and overlooks the Mediterranean - a stunning view. We also met John, a retired lawyer from Morse, Saskatchewan (who, of course, knew someone I ...