Hi! My name's Tony & I've just discovered this excellent forum. I've been wallowing in Colwyn's Turkish Tales - they're so evocative of the wonderful but often strange experience that is Turkey. I feel rather a fraud, however, as I've visited Calis only once. But I have been to Turkey about a dozen times since 1987, and visited just about every resort from Kiz Kalezi in the east to Altinkum in the north, plus Cappadocia and Istanbul. Before 1999, my wife and I used to like to take a charter flight to Dalaman, hop on buses and dolmuses, and stay wherever the fancy took us. A wonderful way to travel, especially in Turkey, and it always seemed to make the holiday last longer than staying in one place on a package trip. And there's something just so romantic about arriving at a bus station with all the people milling about, the simit salesmen, the smell of gozleme cooking, the huge notice boards advertising destinations from Erzurum to Ankara.
Then our beautiful daughter was born in 1999, and we've had to do a bit more planning. It's OK to be stuck in the Mersin Otogar at 1 am if there's just 2 fit adults, but it's a different matter with a toddler, as all parents know. Our current favourite resort is Akyaka, which is so quiet and laidback.
Said daughter's at school now, and we're a bit stuck, in that the temperatures in the summer holiday are way too high for the wife and me. Reckon the daughter would probably manage :-)
But we haven't given up hope of visiting Turkey again. Our local authority is rejigging its term times & we may be able to go around the Whitsun half term next year.
Any road up (as they say where I grew up), I look forward to reading lots more interesting stuff on this forum and, I hope, contributing a bit from time to time.
- Tony -
