Blogs from Turkey, Middle East - page 44

Decided to stay a couple more nights because the beach & restaurant are so nice & because we can. We lounged on the beach until the weather changed. The forecast for today was for a thunderstorm at 5pm which was wrong – it started at 4.15pm. Amazing lightning out to sea & heavy thunder which got closer & closer until it hit the coast & it rained as the sun then approached from the sea as the cloud passed overhead. Fed the peacocks who liked pistachios & fiery hot chilli crisps but they seemed to be drinking a lot out of the puddles later … And what puddles there were; the drizzle turned into a tropical downpour which lasted a good hour. Went for a meal under cover– it had stopped raining but the seating & ... read more

Lauantai 6.6. Istanbul Lento meni hyvin lukuunottamatta puolituntista, jonka aikana kaikki räjähti käsiin. Just kun ruokakärry oli kohdalla, A alkoi huutaa täysillä, L:n piti päästä vessaan, tarjottimet liukui syliin, ruokailuvälineet lattialle, vedet penkille, mikään ei toiminut tai sujunut. Ja kuin taikaiskusta kaikki oli taas hyvin kun tarjottimet kerättiin. Pitäis varmaan suosiolla luopua koneruokailuista, mikä ei olis hirveä menetys. Meitä oli vastassa kuski nimikyltin kanssa, helpottavaa. Auto kiemurteli pikkukatuja, kunnes kääntyi ihan mahdottomasta kulmasta parikerroksisen puutalon eteen. Vastaan tuli yltiöystävällinen hotellinpitäjä, joka hymyili korvasta korvaan ja hoki tervetuloa. Tultiin ekaan kerrokseen, josta paljastui olohuone pikkukeittiöllä ja makuuhuone. A:lle oli matkasänky ja sen päällä vaipanvaihtoteline, L:lle oli tehty sänky olkkariin. Paikka on jotenk... read more

Overnight we sailed 128 nautical miles at an average speed of 11 knots and found ourselves back in Marmaris this morning. This trip the Pommy package holiday that Kath and Albert organised for the four of us to enjoy was a cruise/stay combination which meant that today we commenced the 'stay' component of our Aegean holiday. Some of our fellow cruisers were due to fly back to the UK today after either a week or two aboard the Thomson Spirit. Other passengers were spending the day in Marmaris before cruising the Black Sea with stops at Istanbul, Odessa and Nessebar before they return to the UK early next week. Although the Marti LaPerla hotel is just a few kilometres away from Marmaris in Icmeler, it took us nearly all day to get there! After breakfast we ... read more

Ugh, our earliest start yet. The alarm was set for 3.45am this morning so that we would be ready to be picked up by the mini-cab at 4.30am in order to be at Manchester Airport in time to do the check-in for our flight to Turkey at 7.00am. We weren't active enough yesterday to work up a sweat so we didn't bother showering this morning, just cleaned our teeth and dressed and stuffed our toilet bags into our travelling bags ready for the next instalment of our holiday - cruising the 'Undiscovered Aegean' with Kath and Albert. Because we were going on a cruise we didn't have to join the ridiculously long check-in queue, we were fast-tracked through the 'Premium' queue which was virtually empty. Our bags all came in under 20kg, thank goodness. Kath and ... read more

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