Parilti Bodrum

... with an angle grinder and got us aboard at 05.30.

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.

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.

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.
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.
Mit dem Leihrad geht es die Küste entlang. Immer weiter, bis das Ende der Welt, genauer: der Straße erreicht ist.
Hier gibt es leider nur sehr wenige Schattenplätze an einer Imbißbude mit knatterndem Generator. Kein heimeliges Plätzchen, um die Aussicht zu genießen.
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;-)
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.
Muß man Bodrum gesehen haben? Die Festung ...

Im Flieger: Lallen statt Bordservice.
Im Bus: Geht noch billiger.
Im Hotel: Ein Appartement über zwei Etagen, halsbrecherische Wendeltreppe, viel zu warm und mit Brumm- und Plätschergeräuschen - Direktanschluss an den Swimmingpool - na danke-
In der Nacht: Schlaflosigkeit, ein Zimmer, das den Schlaf raubt, aber die Oropax sind daheim geblieben.
Erst am Morgen ...

... Prior to settling at my cafe, I wandered down the other 2/3 of the waterfront strip that I had not gotten to. At the end of the line was an outdoor club, that looked like a Roman theater or the Colosseum that I had read about in the guidebook. This club will hold 5,000 people and I am sure it is quite a sight in the summer to be dancing among 4,999 of your closest friends. Oh well in the middle of the day it was quiet and I ...

... all the tricks except for two. I was the declarer and Kate was the dummy: how true! Most of us are having lots of fun laying down cards and coming up with strategies. We haven't really been playing competitively. We have been helping each other. All our cards have hearts and numbers, but in the middle they have famous sites from Turkey like the Statue of Mary, the Obelisk in Istanbul and Bodrum castle and some others that we don't know. I know it's a ...

... leaving the firm I qualified with - so I had a chance to catch up with a few of the partners I remember from 11 years ago! 9 - 16 June 2007 Superb week of sunshine and light winds sailing a Dufor 30 in Turkey with a different crew each day. This trip was my idea of "sailing heaven" - Late every afternoon we moored up and stepped back onto terra firma to be served "tea & cakes" at 5.30pm. We would then ...

... after a Turkish writer described his unforgettable experience as Blue Voyage, these unique words became the symbol to one of the most desired ways to spend a holiday. Back in history, these wooden crafts were used as coastal transportation vessels along the same area. Now custom-built for cruising in comfort they serve Blue Voyagers with their friendly turkish crews and ensure a wonderfully enjoyable cruise. The cruising ...

... that it is sitting on and not able to tap into for reasons i wont get into now.... now i am in Bodrum and i rode here with my new family and they are super sweet. not a lot of english but they do really well. i speak slowly and simply and they even got my joke about how i was going to be named after the 1972 Derby winner if i had been born on Derby day. we ate at a Rotarian owned restaurant and from what the owner said, owning a restaurant in Turkey is just as ...