Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Calis Beach Forum => Calis and Area - Member's Photographs => Topic started by: karaokemark on August 16, 2015, 08:28:13 AM
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Three very good reasons why after seven years we have decided to move back to Chesterfield.
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That's some gardening leave from work Mark ;) Good luck with your return home
Badger
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Robin and I wish you all the very best on your return to the UK Mark. Enjoy every moment with those gorgeous grandchildren. xx
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Good luck Mark, a very worthy reason beautiful children! x
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All the very best Mark :)
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All the best Mark, lovely meeting you both. I am sure the Calis Auction will miss their excellent Auctioneer.
However, i understand why you are leaving , Grandchildren are so precious and grow up so quickly and our time with them is not as long as we would like, so it is only natural to want to spend as much time with them as you can. They also learn a lot from us oldies. Bon-voyage, enjoy your beautiful Grandchildren and the next chapter of your lives. Jacqui & Phil x
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Good luck and wishing you all the best for the future Mark and family
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Good Luck and all the very best. Grandbabies are wonderful!
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Beautiful grandchildren; who can blame you for wanting to spend more time with them.
All the very best for the future, you will be missed.
Hope you stay in touch with us all through the forum...
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And the wine's better! All the best, the UK is a far better place to live once you've not lived there for a time.
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And the wine's better! All the best, the UK is a far better place to live once you've not lived there for a time.
Except for the weather!
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Beautiful grandchildren!
No better reason for going back, as my husband says about ours "they keep him young and run him ragged!"
Enjoy every minute with them, I'm sure they can't wait for you to return. :)
Good luck and best wishes.
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Is it really 6 years since Ann and I contacted you and Carole for advice on Calis and Properties Mark. well you helped us and we became good friends, remember the great nights we had in Bostans, quiz nights etc, and of course all you did for the 3 C,s what a great Father Xmas you were too in the good old days of the Calis Carnival. I hear Graham and Julie are leaving too. lots of people seem to be on the move for different reasons Mark, and as you say those beautiful pictures of your grandchildren are 3 good reasons, as you know I miss my granddaughters lots, my very best wishes to you and Carole, I will miss you both for the good banter we used to have and for your company and Friendship. Regards from Des. :(
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Enjoy the future with your grandchildren Mark & Carole - we will miss you - we appreciated your help when we needed it & enjoyed your friendship! All the best for the future B & B xx
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You know my views Mark. All the very best and hope to meet you in the UK sometime
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Good luck with the move Mark
I can't think of a better reason to return to the UK
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All the very best.
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All the best mark.
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Delighted for you.....
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Well done to both of you and best wishes.
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3 excellent reasons to return to the UK.
Returning to the UK, grateful for the experience, would not have missed it for the world, it made us fully appreciate what the UK offers, warts 'n' all.
Best wishes.
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Returning to the UK, grateful for the experience, would not have missed it for the world, it made us fully appreciate what the UK offers, warts 'n' all.
x2 precisely.
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We wish you and your family all the best for the future Mark. We are currently making plans to return as well.
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Enjoy you grandchildren Mark. We have 12 now! Would I be without them? On very rare occasions, yes, but after a nap and a pill for the head and ear aches, never! :D ;D
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We were talking at home last night about how many people have left what was going to be their forever home. Barrie and I amongst them... This month alone another 3 couples who are long term members of this forum and have also made a big contribution to the area they have called home for 7/8 years... We see them every time we go to Calis and we are really going to miss them... I can name off the top if my head at least another 20 who are no longer living there and quite a few more who have died too soon... There are also those who would move if they had the funds too... Changing times... We will never say never again. We also would never judge why people decide to stay or leave.. What ever makes you happy... We had no regrets going to live there or in fact coming back to the UK... We live in a beautiful peaceful part of the country as we did in Fethiye. We consider ourselves very lucky...
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One of the first couples we met there full time were a fireman and his wife who retired from the UK - they had a lovely apartment and a few meals out and told me that after one year of living there (that day) they had enjoyed a pleasant standard of living and had a modest amount more in the bank than the day they arrived a year ago. That was retirement and interest rates (and Efes prices ;) ) and that is pretty difficult to achieve now.
People who needed to live odd their interest are quite often back in the UK or thinking about it.
A bottle of local votka was around £4 ten years ago, how much now - £16? If the same increase happens over the next 10 years it will be £64 a bottle!!
Change votka for red meat, or gas bottles, or electricity - same story.
High interest returns and low prices are gone. People are going.
I believe we lived there for the best years for Brits over there, and if that upsets anyone, tough!
Good luck to the lovely Mark, a true gent.
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High interest returns and low prices are gone. People are going.
I believe we lived there for the best years for Brits over there, and if that upsets anyone, tough!
Quite agree Scunner, but that isn't the only thing, in our case we are concerned about coping when we're older and frail. The heat has really got to us this year. The endless bloody bureaucracy (every year now) to get your RP sorted. The uncertain polital and economic situation. We've just had enough. Having said that I dare say once we're back in the UK we will only remember the good bits about living in Turkey and will miss Beautiful Fethiye & Calis
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Thanks to everyone for your kind words and good wishes, it was not an easy decision to make, we have had seven great years here and made many good friends along the way. I am sure we will be back quite often for holidays (with Abigail and the boys in tow)
A special thanks to Keith (Scunner) without the hard work he has put in running CBF over the years, we would not have found Calis and enjoyed a well extended holiday.
Mark
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A fond farewell to our favourite neighbours - a constant source of good advice and wisdom - and two genuinely nice folk. I am sure they will be missed by their many friends.
Good luck and best wishes for the future to you both.
Phil and Karen
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When we first purchased in Turkey, Mark and Carol were our next door neighbours at Lemon 1. I can still remember a group of us following Mark around because he knew what he was doing. So funny.....
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...and it took us this long to get rid of the lot of you
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Mark, don't blame you as we are relatively new to the grandchildren thing so no want you mean, but I'm sure our paths will cross again that tends to happen one way or another, take care
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To our good friends Mark & Carole..... Thank you for introducing us to the amazing Calis!!!!! We bought our home in Turkey on one word....your word Carole.....Amazing!!!!! You were always there for us... Without you both and Cenks help we would never have found the amazing Calis....
Seven years later & seven Grandson, who are now also enjoying the Amazing Calis to us it's still Amazing!!!
Mark it's a long way from Chesterfield to Calis to fix our problems, but as your just around the corner in Chesterfield I'm sure we can find you some jobs....
Good Luck,good health,and happiness to you and your family....missing you already...x x