Turtas Club Hotel Alanya

... to Alanya, I opted to take the coach this time instead of hitch hiking. I got into the station at 6:30 and then took a city bus to get closer to the beach. I think I was pretty much in the wrong neighbourhood for cheap hotels but was able to negotiate a room down from 50 to 30 TL. The apartment had a living room, kitchen, dining area and bedroom!<br><br>Now for a walk-about town for the evening...

... la montgolf&#305;ere en Cappadoce.<br><br>Raft&#305;ng &#305;n the Kropulu Canyon. Blue water, f&#305;shes. Very n&#305;ce day w&#305;th new fr&#305;ends, M&#305;chel and Suzanne, from Montreal w&#305;th whom we are go&#305;ng to go balloon fly&#305;ng &#305;n central Turkey (Cappadoc&#305;a).

... mit üb**dimensioni**ten 'Developments' auf staubigen Feld**n, viele davon noch im Bau. Wie mag es hi** im Somm** zugehen, wenn all diese Kapazitäten genutzt w**den, in sengend** Hitze? In Alanya finden wir mit ei***** Mühe und d** Hilfe eines freundlichen Hoteli**s mit Int**netanschluss uns** Pauschalhotel in einem hässlichen Neubauvorort südlich d** Innenstadt. Alles ordentlich, ab** irgendwie billig und ein wenighässlich hi**. Für drei Nächte wird es gehen.

... there is about six hectares each and a supply of sea water and fresh water that is unlimited, it rains. When it rains, holidays are just a few letters different from horror days. Fortunately Tanja talked down the price of a room from 80 dollars to 20 Euro, so we are dry tonight, albeit a bit cold. The heater in the room runs overtime now, it has to heat some 40 metres cubed of concrete from 11 to a comfortable 20plus centigrade. We are coming out of Africa, you know.

... she took in. She has a shopping bag from a boutique displaying that she has put her time to good use and is not simply downtown to meet him. He appears to have nothing better to do then meet her for drinks and has probably been waiting all day for this little bit of company. She gossips coarsely about the locals they both know. He laughs as if he was thinking of something else, or maybe he had heard the stories before. The four of us are the only ones at the café. They tell us ...

... were huge drops on these narrow parts where they had piled up sand to do the road at a later date. Damo's expert driving got us through and once we arrived in Alanya it was off for some drinks (only 2 each as $8 for a beer) before crashing at 2am. As it is really just a drinking place we didn't take any photos of Alanya. Alanya is a haven for Germans and Scandinavians ...

Hi folks hope everyone is well we having a great time seeing some amazing stuff and mixing hardout sight seeing with some flatout relaxing GOOD TIMES!! So Sulcuk was a nice laidback town and we went to the ruins of Ephesus which were in pretty good condition compared to troy some restoration had been done but pretty tastfully so as not to ruin the historic look. After a hot morning exploring ...

... Obv&#305;ously not much left but pretty cool see&#305;ng &#305;t was 2500BC. From Troy we headed further down the coast and pulled &#305;nto some forestry where we bush camped for the n&#305;ght. Today was a road tr&#305;p to Salcuk - we2re hav&#305;ng d&#305;nner w&#305;th a carpet shop owner and h&#305;s w&#305;fe wh&#305;ch should be pretty cool. We're stay&#305;ng &#305 ...

Yo - well as u can c from the title I didnt get up to v much today in Antalya. I didnt go on any excursions, I didnt visit any paying city tourist attractions and I didnt really hike up any steep city hills to visit ministerial villas. In fact all I really did was just stroll semi aimlessly round the lovely old quarter of Antalya - Kaleici - with a drop dead gorgeous harbour, windy old narrow back passages with fine restored Ottoman houses that have now been ...

... service. Looking for new cup - yes, things just get more exciting day by day! I got chatting to a shop owner, Burhan, who expressed interest in the bike and my journey. After a short while he called a friend, a freelance reporter who interviewed me on camera, took photos and details of the trip. All very exciting. CNN Turkey here I ...