Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Turkey Related Subjects => Turkey Discussion Forum (Not Calis specifically) => Topic started by: Colwyn on July 01, 2016, 14:28:58 PM
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Just a few views of Turkey from our recent visit that I'll post as I process them.
Two Sides of Turkey
The first side is one I really like for two reasons. First, mussels stuffed with rice, with a touch of chiil pul to give a slight warmth and squirted with lemon are a delight - 10TL for 10 large mussels, brilliant. Second, eating them sitting in one of the restaurant on the promenade which all have an extensive menu but they don't mind you buying your mussels from a street seller. Indeed a waiter will call him over from the prom and then clear away with remains - happy that everyone should make a living.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Mussels1_zpshmaacbhr.jpg)
The second side is one a really detest - as I do in the UK. It is the thoughtless and selfish dropping of litter all over the place and particularly in beauty spots where people have picnicked. Here are bottles and cans dumped by the side of a jetty from returning round-the-bay pleasure boats so that the next storm can wash them all into the sea despoiling the bay from which the boats make a living.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Rubbish_zpsqdsw0fga.jpg)
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Fish Glorious Fish
At a street-side fish restaurant. Can you spot the spelling mistake on the A-board?
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Fish1_zps1zealkkz.jpg)
But, however they spell it, it was a lovely sea bream accompanied by the compulsory rakı. Meal less than £6 at prices on the day plus about £3.80 for the rakı. On another day we went back for a hamsi tava - even though I suspect it was out of season it was still nice.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Fish2_zpsa2yxr5pj.jpg)
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Oops ignore the raki price I remembered the size not the price!
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Origami
Can't let flies get into the red wine.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Paper1_zps18qztwl6.jpg)
Preparing the evening's birthday party.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Paper2_zpsbroov4nx.jpg)
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Blues
When in Turkey I like things Turkish. I want to eat Turkish food: I don't want imitation Indian, Chinese or Italian - there's plenty of that in the UK. Same with Full English Breakfasts and Sunday Roasts. I like to drink Turkish drinks, not imported stuff. However ... there is an exception to this Turkish rule. I know a gay bar that plays the blues. By gay bar I mean that the landlord and many (not all) of the staff are gay or lesbian, not that the customers have to be; by blues I mean ancient and modern and they have the biggest collection I have ever come across - there is a vast library. On Fridays there is live music. Here is the Oz Band; two guitars, saxophone, trombone and singer.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Kum1_zpsgjf3ljq4.jpg)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Kum2_zpsvku7dzdq.jpg)
The bar sign and the waiters tee-shirt logos show an interesting dog. I asked what is was and was told "It is a Blues Dog". Fine but the next day I was still concerned about why the Blues Dog appeared to be tipping his beer away. Nobody there spoke English except for one chap who said: "I only started work today" apologized and hurried away. It was busy so I didn't pursue it. Later when it was quiet I asked again (with sign language) and due to the wonders of the smart-arse phone I was shown it was "foam". So the Blues Dog was pouring excess head of his pint. Fine. I think I'll adopt him as my avatar.
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Oh dear, I have another apology to make. When I said there was a spelling mistake - there wasn't. I thought it should have been çupra for sea bream but çipura means gilt head bream. Serves me right for being a smart arse.
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Not that I would have had the slightest clue. Respect Colwyn. :) :D ;D :)
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Traffic Calming Scheme
A sleeping police rope.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Traffic%20Calm_zpszfcypx1o.jpg)
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Lovely pics Colwyn.
Love the explanation of the dog pic :)
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I've done a Google Image search of the dog cartoon and, as far as I can see, it is an original. Plenty of artists around the village (it is like a Turkish St Ives!) and the bar has perhaps commissioned one. It has gone up even further in my estimation.
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Those mussels in your first photo Colwyn look delicious! A few years ago I couldn't have faced a plate of mussels but now I love them. The best I've had, so far, was in New Zealand last year, a plate of superb green lipped ones. But those in your photo are making my mouth water! :D
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I love mussels. At one point in my life I became allergic and had sever 48 hour reactions to them. It happened twice and for 20 years I steered well clear. Then one day Hilary had a bowl-full and I hesitantly tried one. I was OK. Next time I tried three. Still fine. Then I had a bowl-full myself. Brilliant! I was cured. Since then I've tried to make up for the twenty missing years.
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Those mussels in your first photo Colwyn look delicious! A few years ago I couldn't have faced a plate of mussels but now I love them. The best I've had, so far, was in New Zealand last year, a plate of superb green lipped ones. But those in your photo are making my mouth water! :D
Absolutely! can't beat the fish and shell fish in New Zealand Marina.
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Road Haulage
You don't see this so often these days.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Road%20Haulage_zps8hmozymo.jpg)
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Nice set of photos that reflect Turkish hospitality at its best ....
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Those mussels in your first photo Colwyn look delicious! A few years ago I couldn't have faced a plate of mussels but now I love them. The best I've had, so far, was in New Zealand last year, a plate of superb green lipped ones. But those in your photo are making my mouth water! :D
Absolutely! can't beat the fish and shell fish in New Zealand Marina.
And going back for more next year hopefully. :)
And then back to Calis, to find Colwyn's ;D
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Here is a Highlander style piece of self-indulgence.
Discovering Turkey: Izzy's Diary
(as imagined by her grandfather)
I spent lots pf time in the pool and the sea, but I did other things as well. We went by taxi to a village where the White Storks nest on top of telegraph posts. There's one over there.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Stork1_zpsd4zxqtzj.jpg)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Stork2_zpsqbrhkasq.jpg)[
And there's another one.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Stork3_zps2swpfoxr.jpg)
In the village there were hens running about in the streets and into people's yards outside their houses. One women saw me looking at her hens, rushed out,picked me up and carried me inside. She found a little chick and let me stroke it. It was great.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/1df7f12a-c532-4e2a-b32e-45d78f7f1700_zpsnzmc8rzj.jpg)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Village2_zps6gjsh0w5.jpg)
On another day we walked a long way through the forest and along the coast to a stoney beach. I built a Stone Castle with a little Turkish friend I made.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Stone%20Castle2_zpsscoecd2j.jpg)
And I found a little pool where things were swimming. They were turtles! Granddad calls them terrapins but that just means small turtles so I call them turtles. There's one. Look!
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Terrapin1_zps6bteym2x.jpg)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Terrapin2_zpszjodrflb.jpg)
All this excitement makes me hungry so I had a little snack. It is called balık ekmek.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Balik20Ekmek_zpstisqoeap.jpg)
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That's the end of my photo storm ... so it is iyi günler from me and iyi günler from her.
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Brilliant! Love seeing things through a child's eye, although she may have been thinking "silly old bxxxxxx" -I know from the looks in my grandchildren's eye that they frequently think that! ;D ;D ;)
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Lovely pictorial Colwyn. The photos actually need few words! Nice one of you both to finish too. 8)
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Fabulous photos of a gorgeous girl Colwyn. Izzy will have fond memories for sure
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P.S.
Granddad didn't get any photos of turtles swimming, but my dad did. Here they are. Izzy.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Terrapin4_zpsqha5pnsp.jpg)
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Terrapin3_zpsukzbypsf.jpg)
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Lovely photos, looks like Izzy had a fabulous time :)
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Stunning shot! 8)