Spa Therme Maris Dalaman

Stayed here for a Week long Holiday after our university exams, nice place good food, it was an all inclusive resort, with fresh salads and cooked breakfast every morning, dinner ranged from barbe-qued fish to roast meats. organised trips down to the beach everyday and trips to the largets market in Fethiye. Also organised trips and tours around Kayakoyu 'the Ghost Town' altogether a fun relaxing trip cheaply organised by Thomas Cook.

... of rain out of the canvas coverings some of the stalls.. When the rain lightened we made a break for the main road and caught a dolmus back to our hostel before it started to pour down again... It rained for most of the night and morning and because we were inbetween the harbour and the base of a mountain the sound of the thunder echoed brilliantly around us, long after the lightening had flashed...
The poor weather ...

... going back and no-one telling me til the next morning over breakfast!)... When the boat departed from Koycegiz I was the only person on it - aside from the driver/captain and his mother (who was also the cook; the waitress and a better skilled sailor/navigator than her son who on the way back, slept at the back of the boat while she steered!!). I was on my own for an hour as we sailed out ...

... jusque dans la falaıse... lorsque les pıeds ne touchent plus a terre... tu voles pour 30-40 mınutes. Oooofffff! La vue etaıt ımprenable maıs la tensıon dıffıcıle a supporter et les pırouettes pour descendre graduellement assez fortes pour causer de bonnes nausees. Quelle experıence folle ... a ne ...

... must not have been named for the color of the island (it was green) but for the color of your skin once you get there! We had a great time, even though we were sunburned by the time we got home.
That night we had a relaxing dinner at Pasha Kepab, supposedly the best Kebabs around. They were pretty damn good.
Tomorrow, we leaved for Rhodes and then Santorini! Turkey (and the Turkish Lira) has been good to us.

Strange how everything seems so familiar, we even seem to know our way around. Oh now we understand we were here 61 days ago. It is good to see that we have been travelling for the last couple of months and haven't even made any ground. We have just been doing a big circle.

We made our way to the city center, dropped off our bags and went straight away to find out the ferries to Rhodes. Unfortunately there are no ferries on Sunday, the next ...

... favourable direction. Having turned off the main road the surface was rougher and the shoulder was much narrower when it was present. Later it got warmer but the wind kept the temperature manageable and it was fantastic riding. The countryside was open and rolling with people working in the fields plus a lot of wheat. It looked kinda normal except that there were mosques with towers rather than churches. There was a ...

A slow start today and a tricky city exit. The city exit went ok; the road was unsigned but went in the right direction ish. I wondered wether I should be on the parralell road but waited for the next turn to be sure. It never came so I was on the right road. Its hard to judge as secondary roads can look important then become important when a major road joins them without actually changing much. Today was hot but with only 37 km to ride. In practise it ...

... wanted to visit Turkey and Istanbul so very excited to be heading there. Anyway, that's it for now. It is only a short update to let everyone know that we are finally off and it hasn't been an elaborate lie for all this time. Keep reading as hopefully there will be lots more updates and photos. See / speak to you all soon.

... een papiertraject op laten starten door een agent, onze cargo handler wil dit wel voor ons gaan regelen maar vraagt 180 Ytl. (€90) We gaan akkoord en mogen in de hal wachten.....wachten en wachten en krijgen zelfs een kopje turkisch thé. Dan komt de taxichauffeur opeens weer tevoorschijn en claimt via de door hem aangeschoten "tolken" wachtgeld! Wij zeggen niet om zijn diensten te hebben gevraagd, dat hij wachtgeld had moeten aankondigen toen we hem afzegden ...