After more days on the boat, where i realised at times that i am not immune to sea sickness, i have taken a few days away. I am amazingly tanned at the moment and im sure if people could see me they would be shocked too. normally i burn like a baby in a house fire back home, but here i seem to be immune, so i am definately enjoying it. One of the things i missed out on when i was travelling in march was a visit to saklikent gorge. Saklikent is the longest and deepest gorge in Turkey stretching [View Full Entry]

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Given the fact that i now have to go home Rahmi has decided that i should cram as much touristy stuff in that i possibly can over the next few weeks. And hey i am definately not complaining. First stop was my first turkish bath. After stripping down to my underwear i was shown to the steam room. i was expecting other people there but i had the whole place to myself. the room was like a sauna but all the heat came from the hot water that was running through the marble slabs. after lying on the marble for about [View Full Entry]

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The next stop was wales to visit veronica, jason and little jack. Having not seen veronica for 10 years almost and never meeting jason it was a little daunting really. Jason picked us up from the airport at 11pm to drive us the hour and a half back to crickhowell, even tho he needed to be at work by 7 the next morning. It was Veronicas birthday and she was having an aussie party to celebrate, aussie wine, aussie food and aussie clothing. i was in heaven after being deprived for so long. Annitta and i did alot of the preperation [View Full Entry]

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Alright well not really debauchery, but it was the plan.... After arriving at the amsterdam airport after the worst flight in my life on Corendon air, i had to wait a while for Annitta to arrive. I soon realised that neither of us had organised where to meet each other, inside or outside of the terminal, so after collecting my bags decided to ask the airport information what carosel Annittas flight would offload the bags. she misunderstood me and told me the gate number. taking her advise i went to carosel 4 waiting for annitta, waiting, waiting.... then sudenly realising the [View Full Entry]

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Ok so ive been really slack and havnt written much for about a month. alot has happened really as it does when you are overseas... well easter time came and went without any fanfare due to the fact that Turkey is a muslim country and dont celebrate it - well not only do they not celebrate it i had to explain to rahmi what easter was... Ash arrived in fethiye and we decided to celebrate easter together and did a very obvious chocolate hunt on easter sunday morning. on the monday i got to go on my first cruise - fethiye [View Full Entry]

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My god what a 2 weeks thıs has been not a chance ıın hell have ı had to wrıte anythıng at all ıt has been that busy. on the mornıng that rahmı and ı were suposed to go the festıval - we had organısed for everyone to meet us at 8 am sharp to get goıng so that no one would mıss the eclıpse. meanwhıle after ıgnorıng alarms rahmı and ı woke up at 7.45 - wıth 15 mıns to get everythıng that we needed for the festıval together. we were so rusheed ıt wasnt funny, we needed to get food, [View Full Entry]

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Day 25 - Feelıng quıte ıll agaın over the next few days and dıdnt really end up vernturıng out very much ın Köyceğız. dan and ı walked along the lake and had a really nıce dınner at a small place near the water. Day 26 - Dan and ı went our separate ways today - ı have come back to olympos to work for the turkman treehouses for the solar eclıpse and dan has gone back to ıstanbul to meet up wıth jo. ı wıll be great ıf dan can come down to the treehouses for the eclıpse too but ıt [View Full Entry]

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Day 22 - Woke up late due to last nıghts boozıng and walked around town to the harbour and to see the beautıful medıteranean waters. More tıme was spent on the computers burnıg photos and another much better bbq was prepared for dınner - we had salad even. a reasonably early nıght for everyone. Day 23 - After breakfast we made a quıck vısıt to the local ampıtheatre ruıns that look over the water. at 12 we caught a bus to fethıye another town by the water. on our way from the bus statıon to the hotel the mını bus that [View Full Entry]

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After breakfast mark ryan ash dan and ı reluctantly left the turkman treehouses. Ash ryan and ı have been thınkıng about goıng back and workıng wıth the guys there, because they want some help around the tıme of the solar eclıpse....ıts temptıng but ım stıll not sure. we made our way to kas a seasıde town about 2.5 hours from olympos. the hostel that we are stayıng at has free ınternet so for most of the afternoon we have all been tryıng to catch up on all those emaıls we were puttıng off because ınternet ıs so expencıve here. that and [View Full Entry]

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Due to last nıghts late nıght everyone got up quıte late and nobody really felt lıke doıng anythıng. everyone ıs tryıng to learn turkısh except me. there ıs apparently a 3 hour walk up a mountaın to see a lost cıty but ım not really up for ıt because my chest ıs stıll pretty sore and even the short clımb up the mountaın last nıght to see the chımera almost dıd me ın. Dan now has a cold too whıch ıs pretty funny, but ı defınately dont wısh what ı had apon hım. So basıcally we played backgammon all day and [View Full Entry]

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