Hi to all the good people of this forum, I have just joined and will gladly follow the protocol of introduction, we bought a villa in Kalkan in 2005 (got the tapu this time last year) and have been back and forth 4 times since, (5th coming up this Friday....HOORAY!). We did the classic no no of buying on impulse whilst on holiday, but I am very happy to say so glad we did, otherwise we probably would have dithered around, thinking about it, and never got on with it!
I have never been so skint in my life, having had to save money in every direction in order to finance the furnishing.....most of which was done in Kalkan, we found that Fethiye (an hours drive) was much cheaper........TOO LATE! but we did buy a few things, some lamps, some wooden furniture (from JUST WOOD) in Fethiye, and we are now starting the furnishing of our new roof terrace, and bedroom, so maybe we will look at Fethiye some more.
Sorry for rambling on, I am 54, a barber (hence all the rabbit!) and hope to retire to live most of the time in Turkey in around 3 years. My wife suffers with an illness known as fibro myalgia and whilst in this dreary climate of Blighty suffers badly with pain, in the sun?........not quite athletic, but vastly better!
Will go now, thank you for your tolerance, and hope to chat some more and pick your brains from time to time.
Serefe! Headroom
