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Published: August 22nd 2013
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The last week has flown past and our days have taken on a new way of living…..
Woolly says – fruit and yoghurt on the balcony for breakfast is a marked difference to life in the UK, followed by a swim in the pool and although I’m not a lover of water (especially where baths are concerned) I’m quite enjoying a paddle every day. It is very hot and sleeping at night involves fans or air con. Many of our neighbours sleep on the balcony which is a wise choice. Ian and I bought Jo a fan so it’s easy to know where she is, just follow the sound of whirring as she moves around the apartment towing it behind her like an IV trolley. I am starting to learn more about the culture we have moved into, there is lots of kissing of cheeks and shaking of hands and I have to remember to always greet the older person first when meeting people. Ian is picking up the language quickly while Jo and I have now added a further four words and phrases to our meagre collection, the best being, amlamadim – I do not understand –
it seems to cover most eventualities at the present.
It is always lovely to catch up with friends and this is making life very easy for us along with the relaxed way of life. We do find ourselves just sitting and looking at the castle on the hill or watching the tourists passing by in their neon colours while time passes us by. We shop on a daily basis for fresh fruit and bread and keep meals simple or cheat by eating out at Crusoe’s (breakfast and coffee 18 Lira’s – approximately £6.30 GBP), The Royal Restaurant and Bar (chicken fajitas, fish, salad and fries and a couple of beers each, 45 Lira’s – approximately £15.60 GBP) we know that once moved we will go back to cooking more but at the moment were happy making the most of each day.
Woolly says – With so many things to sort out I have had to be quite well behaved so Ian suggested, as we needed to go to the upper part of town, that an afternoon playing tourist at the aqua park would be a good reward for me. Brilliant, I tracked down my
towel and goggles and was ready nice and early a quick trip to the central post office and into the bank and we were free for the day. It was a little more expensive than we had expected at 25 Lira each (approximately £8.65 each) but since this the first time we had been we paid up and I prepared for an amazing afternoon.
Poor Woolly was quite disappointed, the aqua park is surrounded by buildings and from its pictures on line looks quite big, a lot bigger than in real life. With five pools and children’s area there wasn’t a lot of space to be had. We decided to go pool by pool and move on when bored. Our first stop was at two twisty slides and grabbing the last two beds we happily sat watching folks appear out of the tubes before splashing into the pool.
Woolly says – I loved this part and while Jo and Ian took the more traditional route of sitting in the tubes I went for my version of sliding down the edges, wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, and I didn’t even get wet an added bonus. Next to this excitement
was a wave pool, Ian and I went for a look but there were no waves at all so we moved onto five straight slides located in the centre of the park. Sunbeds were at a premium here and we managed to grab two as one family were leaving, Jo went first and headed for the stripy slide. It was a fast one and on arrival in the pool she had to spend a few minutes adjusting her swimming togs before climbing out, Ian headed off next to try and bearing in mind it was a good five minute walk up to the top it seemed an age before he suddenly shot off the end of the slide and we nearly missed his arrival completely. I sat and dozed for a bit before we moved to the next section.
The next area had three different slides, one totally enclosed which shot you out through centrifugal force, one that twisted round and one that looked more like a skateboard run. Unfortunately only one was open at a time and the queues were horrendous so we gave up on this section. We took a peek at the children’s section
which looked really good but as Woolly doesn’t qualify we couldn’t use that area.
Woolly says – I was sad, they had lots of mini slides and animals with water squirting water out of their trunks, noses and ears, it looked like so much fun. The only part of the park we hadn’t been to was an ordinary pool which looked boring and the rafting area which ran round the middle of the park. This started to work while we were looking at it so Ian went to find out where to get a boat from, he came back empty handed, another 10 Lira to go on it! Having already paid to come in we felt a bit miffed out shelling out more so we left it. Collecting ice creams and water we wandered back to our original pool and settled down for a few hours.
Maybe if we had a group of children with us the park would have held more for us but once you had done a few slides it had nothing else to offer and though nice to sit in the sun it wasn’t quite the afternoon we had looked
forward to.
Woolly says – it was different but I think I prefer sitting on the beach watching the waves!
At the moment we are staying in the holiday apartment and unfortunately have a delay in being able to move properly into our new home as our tenant has had a problem with moving into her new home. The main issue with this of course is that our furniture has to be stored for a while, luckily with help from our good friends Bulent and Annelie and with their translation skills we can move the furniture (once through customs) into the spare room of our new place and keep it there until everyone can move properly.
Woolly says – Our furniture has arrived and at the moment is sitting in its container at the docks while customs clear it. Poor Jo and Ian spend many hours each day emailing information and documents backwards and forwards to get it cleared. This, although tedious, is a temporary thing but I do look forward to seeing our new home with all our belongings in it.
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