Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Property For Sale in Calis Beach & Turkey => Moving To Turkey => Topic started by: Scunner on July 26, 2013, 15:29:22 PM
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Believe it or not, I once brought three bar stools over to Turkey. All three in one suitcase, sort of flatpacked. They were almost impossible to find over there.
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Too clever with the packing then ?
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A Turkish carpet. I'd bought it a number of years before I made the move here & would have been lucky to have got a quid for it at the car boot sale, it fitted my decor here, so back it came
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A screwdriver set is on our holiday packing list!
Some hotels have habit of putting the aircon control in a box, with the temperature pre-set, with only the on/off button accessible. Settings never suit us. With the screwdrivers we can open it up and adjust it.
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6 x bedside lamps, and would you believe 3 x prayer mats i bought in Qatar, now wall hangings.
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Some pre cut decking to make a small deck platform by our pool and a wheelbarrow garden planter.
I have also brought over stuff like paint (interesting at Manchester airport) and one of those collapsable ladders.
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Parrot food, large prepacked joints of pork,my Kenwood Chef mixer and a 3ft high Budda garden ornament.
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Not at the same time, but, A Slow Cooker, A Bathroom Cabinet, An Electric Drill, some plastic vessels for poaching eggs, ant killer. Six Antique Pictures of Istanbul from the Victorian Era....
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We all have brought sausages and bacon in the past, but my mum would go one step further amd bring a beef joint for her sunday roast:P
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A see-through posing-pouch, a viking helmet, a gimp mask and a packet of fairy cakes.
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Nails for horses hoofs! Yes that's right! Do I win?
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I brought a plastic spoon designed for lowering eggs into boiling water with me.
I won it years ago at a Tupperware party and its brilliant!
And a runner bean slicer.
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a long spout tap in my hand luggage which customs thought was a gun and had security officers all over me and high back leather office chair which weighed 17.5 kg.
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Electric gate openers consisting of two hydraulic rams and all the associated electrical equipment.
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500 practice golf balls , :) was asked if I was a bad player and lost a lot of balls ? ;) :)
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You weird lot!
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You weird lot!
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Couldnt agree more Stuart,i remember the days when we were all normal on here. :angel:
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.... at least nobody has admitted to blow up dolls ;)
Anyone want to confess?
:)
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A bundle of sticks. You know the kind tied at the bottom with string which stand in the corner looking - well- stick like!
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No
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4.5 Kg cheshire cheese round - quite regular in the hand luggage.
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Two ikea glass wall lights 2x1 foot each.
Two shower mats and a pop up Christmas tree complete with lights.
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Well I thought it strange, but apparently the norm... tins of corned beef, oxos and sink plugs.
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A giant inflatable snakes and ladders game :D
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My "mushroom pan".. Its a huge metal pan which I bought for 25 p at The salvation army shop.. I cooked all the mushrooms for our hotel in it.. It followed us to our restaurant and cafes and then went with us back to Huddersfield.. It is now back home with us in England... 30 years later.. now that's a bargain.. It does stir fries everything. I would be lost without it... When I think about some of the stuff we did take to Turkey I wonder why? but some things just weren't available when we went...I took Tuna as well as Barrie didn't like the stuff there after finding olives in one of the cans...Maggi gravy mix was essential. Cant stand bisto and all that sort of stuff...
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I have taken a microwave in my suitcase (couldn't find a red one to match my kitchen anywhere in Fethiye :) ), a nest of tables (flat packed of course!), a tv/dvd player that we bought for our bedroom at home, but it couldn't be fitted (long story :) ), lamps, framed pictures for the walls - well, you name it, and I have probably brought it over to Turkey! (not a blow up doll though Stoop! :)
Only a steam cleaner to bring this time ........... so far! :)
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A swingball, an electric pump to blow up airbeds, a badminton set, and I got stopped with a microwave at Dalaman. I was asked "electronic?" I just acted daft (which isnt hard) and the customs man just waved me on. He obviously thought I was too much hassle.
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An 18kg anchor.
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Pi55y has brought more unusual things out for The 3cs than you could possible mention on here....
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When Thomas Cook got keen on weight I adapted a jacket I cut the in side of the pocket out and could get 11 tins of ham pushed round to the next pocket in the lining, I walked up to check in like Douglas Bader. After check in it went in my hand luggage, when I went through passport control at Manchester a couple of years ago, they pulled me over asked to open the bag. The girl looked at the tins, I asked if they were ok, she said not a problem but I would strongly advice next time you buy M and S tins of ham much nicer. I always do now, my mate did the same trick with 6 large tins of salmon, only to have them confiscated because they contain more than 100ml of fluid he was gutted.
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Betty Crocker chocolate frosting, Mince pies, Christmas cake and tins of hotdogs.
My trusty sewing machine, a slow cooker and a 900 page cookery book dating from the 1950's.
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Just remembered whilst tiling our kitchen... Barrie's Grandads old hammer, a pair or vicegrips and 2 pairs of pliers/pincers all over 50 years old.. We are using them again at the moment for yet more DIY...
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Have a 6 in 1 cooker to replace my steamer n slow cooker and now a vacuum sort of thing,hand luggage or suitcase??