(Danie) Another day to play with our toes and just sit on the beach.  I woke up today and I had the sniffles.  With all the medicine that we packed up and brought with us, we have nothing for a common cold.   Pretty smart eh? We wake up have breakfast and head to the beach where we stay all day long tanning and reading a book...

A quick consultation with our calendar confirms our worst fears - our year is rapidly coming to an end. We have less than three months to visit all of Europe, including our new change of plans. The original idea was to catch a ferry from Turkey to Greece, another from Greece to Italy and then tootle up through Italy and Austria to Slovakia. We a...

Like the warmth and security that a child feels as they are pressed into the bosom of their mother, once again I was in the soothing arms of Bayram and his tree-houses.  You lie on cushioned platforms, shaded from the warm Mediterranean sun by the leaves of orange trees whilst ice cold beer is brought to you with a ...

Once we were all kicked off the boat and crammed into a minibus we were off to see some church which no one had any interest in as we were all tired. It was therefore agreed that we would all meet back in 20 mins so people could get money and ice cream before finishing the drive to Olympos. Damo and I hadn't booked where to stay so jumped off at...

Onto Olympus, where we hiked the mountains at night to see the The Chimera flames, whicha are eternal flames, sleeping in a tree house and running through the forest seeking out old ruins. That is how we spent our time in this part of Turkey..

Who would have ever thought that a re-make of the tree house that the Swęss Famęly Robinson lived in would exsist...well it does and we stayed in one of them last night. A whole heap of small tree houses linked into one another with stair cases here and there and a river running along the side. We have ended up in Olympos and explored the ruins ...

The boat trip was nice and relaxing, I finished a book that I started 4 years ago. I have never been on an overnight boat trip like that before where you anchor and basicly camp on the boat. The water was perfect, clear, warm and blue. All the people I was on the boat with were doing this thing called Fez trip. You start in Istanbul and make a l...

The cruise finished at Olympos and I parted with people on my boat. Most were staying at bayrams but I wanted to stay at Sabans Pension. All the guys from the couples boat were also staying there, so I ended up hanging out with them and having a great time doing not much. Went to see the chimerea flames that night with the guys...very cool. rand...

We left our hotel in Dilyan the following day, after spending 2 nights in the town. We drove from there to Fethiye, near the area where we went on the gulet. We stayed in the town of Fethiye for about an hour, exploring the town centre. From Fethiye we went to Kash and Demla. Demla is where St. Nickolas spent his las few years. In the town centr...

Olympos - I'd been looking forward to this for months. Laura from Goa was coming over to meet me for a week, and I couldn't wait to see her again. Plus, I'd heard a few stories about Olympos, this idyllic backpacker haven nestled amid ruins on the Mediterranean coast, and it sounded like just the escape from backpacking that I needed. It had bee...