Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Property For Sale in Calis Beach & Turkey => Moving To Turkey => Topic started by: tel on May 08, 2006, 22:36:49 PM
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Well at last we are free, well May 19th at least.
The house sale has gone through and after 22 years we leave the U.K. house to take up residence in Koca Calis.
Some members book a one way flight but, we actually cancelled our May flight to use the money on travelling overland, as the house sale was nearing completion. We have planned a slow sight seeing trip, taking in about 12 countries. Making for Amsterdam and then south to Venice, through Croatia and the Dalmation coast, around the corner to Greece and crossing at Ipsala into Turkey. After Galipoli we take
the ferry over to Canakkale and down the Agean coast before making to Calis.
Hopefully taking out residency to allow us to stay as long as the car is permitted to stay (180 days). Before returning to the U.K. via the ferry to Italy at the end of the year.
I have the green card, Int.driving license, breakdown & travel insurance, long passports, first aid kit, warning triangle, and a fire extinguisher, so I hope I have covered it all....LOL
Why are they returning to the U.K., well I am so excited, as I love to travel, so I will blab.......it's to pick up a cruise and guess what.....it stops at Istanbul and Kusadasi, amongst the itinerary.
Living the dream I call it, I'm sure I'm not alone huh?
Well that's the cunning plan, let's hope it goes to plan.
Tel :)
Any tips, welcome...cheers
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Good luck Tel, and I wish you a very happy new life in Turkey! Hope your cunning plan all goes smoothly - it sounds wonderful!
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have a fantastic time wow! that's the way to start your dream,good luck
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Congratulations and good luck in your new life.
Also have a safe 'mammoth' journey overland !
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Thats just the way I'd like to do it too.. one day. Keep a diary Tel and let us all know what it was like.
All the best.
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Good for you Tel. Enjoy your mammoth holiday, you only live once.
Anne
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Congrats Tel, you're a dark horse! ;) You're going out in style, fair play to you :)
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Congratulations Tel
You kept that quiet. Sounds luvverly, you lucky beggers.
Have a safe & wonderful journey. Keep logging on to let us know how it goes.
How slow is slow? 2-3 months?
Let us all know the pleasures & pitfalls. Hope there are plenty of the former & none of the latter.
We will get there, we will get there, we will get there (where's the infinity button?) eventually.
Linda
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So you have gone public at last........have the safest of journeys and we will catch you later in the year. 8)
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That sounds fantastic....please do let us know how it is going!
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Nice one Tel! Let me know your KC address and I'll pop round for an Efes in Sept. I don't think you will be there in June when we go to our place on Saglik.
Take care.
Stoop
ps - maybe one of those tyre inflating kits would be a good thing to take. Just in case you have a puncture in a remote area. I think they are canister type thingy's that allow you to 're-inflate' the tyre and drive for about 100 miles or so.
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Hi Tel,
Good luck mate!
Don't take too long travelling, I seem to recall you owe me a drink!
Safe journey.
Scunner
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Good luck Tel, we will be following later this year and we may meet up at last - you are more adventurous than us, we will be on a plane.
Enjoy the experience and have a safe trip.
Teresa X
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Good luck with your travels - are you taking a laptop so you can stay in touch and tell us all about your travels?
Janet
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Thank you for all your nice comments.
This escape plan started in 2003, (with great help from Keith((Scunner)) so that's how long it has taken to get to this point...LOL
I did see the tyre inflater Stoop the other day and thought maybe, so may well add that chum...cheers.
Yes we will be keeping a diary and logging all, if Amanda Lamb doesn't get in the way......only joking...LOL
I have bought a wi-fi Notebook to use, if I can master it and a gadget to find hot spots.
There is a little more to it I think, as it found a hot spot near PC World, connected okay, but I could not access anything..LOL Early days ha ha
Keep any tips coming!
Roll on next week.
Tel
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Good luck Tel - have a safe journey
lindi :)
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Well done,Tel, what a way to start your new life!. Hope all goes well.
Pete
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way to go tel,real style and what memories and stories you will be able tell when you arrive.
best wishes charlie
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What a fantastic adventure Tel. Sounds perfect, enjoy every minute of it. Can't wait to hear of all your adventures.
Good luck
Julie :o))
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Hiya everybody.
Shall be off tomorrow at last, on our mega trip to Koca Calis.
Will be offline now, unless I master the wi-fi side of things.
Thought Crabbit would have had some advice for me...LOL :D
Definately keeping a diary on the way.
Only just remembered the headlight beam diverters.
Regards
Tel :)
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Good luck Tel, have a great trip :)
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oops, i knew i shouldn`t have gone away for the weekend.
Oh well, it`s too late now, he`s gone.
Crabbit. :D
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Morning from Amsterdam,
Hello Crabbitt also
Arrived yesterday okay after a delay at the ferry port and a fair bit of driving.
Ate out last night and staying just outside Amstel using the train which is about 6 euros.
More later
Tel
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Hello there, - are you taking lots of pictures to post later? This could prove to be a very exciting storyline.
Best Wishes
Teresa XX
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Nice one Tel hope all goes well for you.
Tony
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Tel
Have a great adventure.
Crabbit
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Hi, again.
t-mobile hot spots using approx 6 euros = 60 mins, hotel wanted same for 15 mins.
Yes taken pics, mainly camcorder at moment. Germany sometime tomorrow.
take care and need sun, as it in short supply. Trains are great, upper and lower seating..LOL
Tel
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Just a quickie,
Leaving Venice today after a couple of lovely days seeing the sights and doing the boat trip etc in glorious weather. St Marks Sq crowded as always LOL Drove straight thru Austria, raining and snow and sleet flurries in the mountains 1°. Stuttgart wonderful, well worth a visit.
About halfway now and enjoying every minute, kept off the toll roads in Italy mainly and it was lovely. 6 countries to dat. Off to Croatia in a minute. Nationwide closed my card, thought it was fraudulent use, just rang them to get it sorted...LOL
Calis mid June at the latest
Tel
PS hello to Roy, Carol-n-Pete, Crabbit(saw Italys match last night) and everyone else
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Hi again,
sitting on the beach at Halkidiki, when not typing this.
Had breakfastin Serbia & Montenegro and dinner here LOL strange butlovely.
Drove straight thru Macedonia, to many traffic police and not much to see either.
Euros and visa card is all that is needed to pass through all the countries to date and only one more to go and we will be heading towards Calis.Before Crabbit jumps in LOL, of course your passports and green card asked for twice.
Tel
ps hello to Brian also...oops
Tel
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Sounds like you are having a great adventure. Good luck for the last leg of your journey.
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I was thinking about you at lunchtime and wondering where you were. Sounds great and thanks for the updates.
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Hi Teresa and friends,
Chillin still in a lovely place on Halkidiki called Pefkohori, just yards from the beach and all amenities. Probably move on the route again Weds, nothing to do with the world cup matches of course.LOL
Galipoli peninsular soon after. Top up fuel this side also, as it is about 1.05 euros per litre
take care
Tel
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Merhaba,
Been to Galipoli and visited Troy.
Stayed at Ayvalik and Foca for a couple of nights.
Now using a hotspot on the Cesme peninsular after negotiating Izmir..LOL
Regards to all
Tel
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You will soon be home Tel. What was Troy like is it a big site? Are you sharing the driving?
Teresa
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I'm so envious of you Tel and so looking forward to seeing your pics.
Anne
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Great keep us all informed how you get on
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Hiya
In Marmaris now , nearly there.
In a lovely hotel right on the beach with two balconies and all the mod cons LOL
Been Kusadasi for a couple of nights and one night at Altinkum recently
Troy was better than I was led to believe. Just ne driving Teresa, Sue is doing a great job navigating though
Tel
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We will put the kettle on.....nearly here! :)
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Cheers Brian
Yes two more nights here and Sunday is the day to arrive home.
What a fantastic view here we have..to die for it looks right along the beach and Marmaris across the bay. as we are actually in Icmeler where we wanted to revisit....our last stop
One bonus driving is that you can go to the best spot for your hotel and see for yourself the location before parting with your cash...lovely. Negotiated a reduction of 20ytl a night also
Its been an experience never to forget but I must add...not for the faint hearted LOL
all the best for now
Tel
PS England got the ponts but what a dreadful performance huh
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glad you made it, sounds like a wonderful trip, is the car holding up ok? faint hearted? what problems did you experience as i would like to do simular trip next year.
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Keeeeeeep going, it is all downhill from now on.
Teresa X
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Not if the tunnel isn't open Teresa.
Tel - I hope you'll let us all have a FULL description of your trip when you've finally had time to settle in. Sounds wonderful but let us have all the joys & pitfalls. Should you have taken more time or less on the drive.
Making me feel like doing this too. Did you drive in left or right hand drive car?
Can't wait until you put in a full report.
Good luck in your new life
Linda
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Hi again. from an internet cafe in Calis
Just a few quickies answered....normal right hand drive car used...Toyota Corolla with acon.
3500 miles driven averaging 38.5 mpg. Good navigator required and my wife turned out be dam good LOL
Some roads not always continued with directions but yes okay on auto routes etc. A few crazy drivers in Greece.
Weather ranged from 1degree high up in Austria to 37 degrees near Icmeler. Even hotter here now.
Some garages not quite ready to sell petrol although new on the Cannakale route down. always keep topping up is a good idea. Holland quite hectic driving and like nearly all motorways. Advice in Amssterdam and Venice is stop outside somewhere and get the train in. A great experience.
But more later and you will probably doing a more direct route. Just over three weeks just right for us.
Didnt see Dave or Gordon at Koycachiez last Sunday and didnt have their phone numbers LOL
All for now. dealing with residency and banking now.
Tel
All borders no probs
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Well done to you both.
Teresa X
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Tel
Sorry we missed you, you should have asked one of the locals, they would have told you where we live, they all know us.
Crabbit
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Tel we hope to see many postings on turkish tales when you get settled
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Well done Tel, I'm trying to persuade my husband to drive down to our Villa in Side- We've bought a Mazda and are having basic camper van facilities fitted - so finger's crossed! Please tell us more about the journey.
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well done it sounded great, What are you planning doing with your car as I thought you could only keep it in Turkey for 6 months unless I'm mistaken
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Hi,
On way back to the Uk now, with the car, which will be sold when we finish with it there.
After moving to Turkey this year, we are now in phase two LOL.
Left Cesme a little later than scheduled on the ferry and had a lovely time on board for three days. Food excellent and comfortable beds in cabin with duvet. Arrived in Ancona with rain after some sunny periods on voyage.
Left port around 630pm to drive to Rimini, where we stayed the first night. Visited San Marino (worth a look indeed) yesterday.
Today we left Italy and are in Switzerland, where at last it has stopped raining once more. Tunnels so long...21kilometres etc
Temperature reached 35degrees in the tunnel. Breathtaking scenery now.
Ytl to Euros, now Swiss francs LOL Everywhere taking Euros and given in change also...mainly
Plenty of cheap wine everywhere, fantastic
Best wishes Calis Beachers
Tel
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Hi again,
Back safely in dear ole Blighty after crossing 0015 Friday night. Topped up everything at Calais and customs virtually non existant at Dover. B&B at Ashford for a decent kip and on to Pompey (Pompey-3, Reading 1) Leapt back above the Gooners DAVE..LOL
Down to Plymouth now where after arriving the last 20 miles in rain, it has now turned sunny and warm 19 degrees.
Anyone thinking of driving out, then all I can say is go for it, take your time and enjoy a wonderful experience.
We shall return by plane to our home though after the cruise and xmas is out of the way.
Wishing you all the very best
Tel (& Sue)
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Sounds like a fantastic trip Tel and Sue!
Jenny.x.