Sempati Hotel Halici Datca

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.

... The ticket clerk told him that Olympic airlines had informed us by e-mail of the changes. We later discovered that this was while we were actually travelling!

As a result we had to re-organise ourselves to get the ferry from Piraeus, an hour’s bus drive from the airport. We got there at about 08.00 and our ferry left at 19.00 so we decided to find a hotel and rent a room for the day.

In any port, it is common practice for people to rent a ...

... en Hotelbunkern um die Pools oder auf den zugehörigen Sonnenliegen am Strand herumliegen, so gibt es doch unzählige Auto- und Scooterverleiher, damit auch jeder von ihnen die Chance hat ein wenig Strandpendeln und einen hotelfremden Imbiß zu sich nehmen zu können. So sind Verkehrsemissionen fast allgegenwärtig und stehen in keinem Verhältnis zur Größe der Insel. Wie nachhaltig diese Aera der Besatzung wohl ist, vor allem, wenn "All Inclusive" noch ...

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 ...

... Hippokratischen Platane entfernt, die nur noch ein hohler Stumpf ihrer selbst ist.
Günstige Preise, leckere Gerichte mit originaler Musik, der Mythos, ein einheimisches Bier wird frisch gezapt und eiskalt serviert - was will man mehr?
Hollandse Friten, oder gar den globalisierten Einheitsburger der goldenen Bögen, die voller Gäste in Rufweite liegen?

The small bus, called a Dolmus bus picked me up in front of the hotel. People were cramped into the bus with only 11 seats - many were standing crookedly towards the back. Was that a rooster?? Yes, there was a rooster in a cage on the bus! The bus sped off - the driver only had his foot on the accelerator, honking instead of breaking. Phew, I survived the trip to downtown Bodrum. Fun and interesting ride.

The streets were narrow with lots of small ...

... and listened to Turkish trance music while smoking our first hookah (Apple flavored). We shared funny travel stories and discussed the "Ladder Theory." This is an apparently well known theory about the difference between men and women when they look at friends versus relationships. İf you are interested in more details, google it or go to Dave the Austrailian bartenders facebook. Evan and Matt learned a lot about girls from us and we gave them all kinds of valuable relationship ...

The good thıng about a tour lıke the one we just fınıshed ıs that ıt ıs INCREDIBLY effıcıent. We got to see more of the hıghlıghts of Turkey ın two weeks than I could have ımagıned, and we got to see ıt wıth two guıdes wıth extensıve knowldege and passıon about theır country, who were capable of ...

... the most pleasant part of the whole thing. A dismissive pat and you're back in the shower. After this, you leave the steam room and get cocooned in towels to cool off with some water in the salon. Final step is the massage, where copious amounts of baby oil are used by the same Turk, who, you find out, has incredibly strong hands. You get a nice oily feeling the rest of the day!