Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Calis Beach Forum => Calis Beach Questions and Information => Topic started by: Scunner on January 19, 2014, 23:17:27 PM
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In a couple of other topics (and FB discussions) some of us have been looking back (maybe rose tinted) at years gone by and discussing how "things were better in the good old days". If they were, why were they...what do you miss (if anything at all).
For me I miss the simplicity - you couldn't easily buy things like gammon steaks and Marmite, but the things you could buy were cheap back then. Can't be bothered cooking dinner? No problem, I'll nip up to Gunlukbasi and get a whole cooked chicken for 2 lira (yes, 2 lira) and if that wasn't a bargain enough, the man would wrap it in that amazing flat bread - when you got home the bread was full of juices and chicken flavours. And that was the meal for the 4 of us, chicken and bread :) Today meat is so expensive, alcohol too. I remember thanking the site guys where we stayed with a bottle of Cin (their tipple when they had their weekly staff BBQ) for 10 lira! Raki is today more expensive than an imported bottle of Scotch whisky was in 2005, and we thought that was expensive!
Government and laws didn't matter back then - who cared what they introduced as a new law? Nobody I knew. Now we are looking through our fingers at Hurriyet and Today's Zaman.
There's loads more rose tinted speculation, but first I'll let others have their say if they want to :)
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Spangles.
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I miss the days when;
You knew your bank managers name, and he knew yours.
There were no speed camera's.
You didn't need a bank loan to fill up with petrol.
You could walk out of a job in the morning and start a new one in the afternoon.
You could pick and choose which American Rock n Roll star you would go and see at local dance halls for approx 3/- shillings.
There was a community spirit in your local area.
There was no Human Rights and Health and Safety Acts.
I wasn't an old fart. !!!!! :)
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Being a "Fethiye person", my best memory of Çalış is when I hardly knew it existed...
JF
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Standing waiting for a dolmus and a friendly local stopping to offer you a lift in his beat up car...never seems to happen now.
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Standing waiting for a dolmus and a friendly local stopping to offer you a lift in his beat up car...never seems to happen now.
It does if you’re a woman and its late at night
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The one thing/place we really miss is La Terace (that is the way it was spelled). Sitting up there having a lovely meal with great staff and owner, who where all so chilled out was fabulous. Also getting a seat at the front and doing some people watching was really good. A visit to Calis was never complete without a meal at La Terace and seeing Serkan standing outside waiting to welcome you in.
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I don't think many women would stand alone waiting for a dolmus late at night these days Trainer...I don't think I would have done it here even years ago.
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What I miss are some of the "old" friends who are no longer with us. I don't miss anything else about Calis, but Lorraine , ( when we lived there), liked Calis only when it "closed down" for winter, and there was a distinct lack of E.P.K.'s hanging around !! ;)
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The days when mini-markets never had any small change so that you left with whatever you had bought plus a handful of boiled sweets. I bought an English version Daily News every morning and saved up enough change/sweeties to pay for a copy and tried to hand them over in lieu of money. The shopkeeper didn't think that was very funny at all; it probably wasn't.
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I miss the 34 percent intrest in the bank and i beleave people who had plenty of cash could get up to 52 percent locked in on a bond each year,your lucky these days to 7 or 8 percent.Gone have the good old days,things have changed over the years and i used to laugh at all the top of range motors a 30year old ford only 3grand to buy.
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Most of all I miss the sunsets, no matter how nice they are here in Sussex they are not a patch on good old Caleesh beach!
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What do you miss about Calis of old S'cabby, not what do you miss when you are not there :)
I wonder if the market traders still take pity on those of us who don't want to buy a kilo of cucumbers. As the only cucumber fan in our family, one was more than enough and they would just give it to me :)
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I think the simplicity,poor roads,no street lighting,less commercialism and a feeling that it was small and everyone was friendly and knew each other.if they didn't know you they went out of their way to help.oh and cows,sheep and goats outside your gate
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Ok, sorry I got it wrong, guess the only old thing I miss is Lancie Boy!
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Avoid Lance, he's got a new Samsung Galaxy...
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We came on the bus late one evening from Antalya in 2005 and a Turkish man of about 70 started eating an apple on the seat across from us - he caught my eye and rustled in a paper bag on his seat and produced a huge red apple and handed it to me for myself and Gill. No swords - just smiles and nods :D
The driver then turned off the main road on at leat 3 occasions to drop people off in their villages - this was now about 10pm - winter and dark!
Lovely - I think the drivers have targets and timetables now ;)
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I think the simplicity,poor roads,no street lighting,less commercialism and a feeling that it was small and everyone was friendly and knew each other.if they didn't know you they went out of their way to help.oh and cows,sheep and goats outside your gate
That about sums it up, 1st October last plane left Dalaman no bars open at night, maybe 2 open on the prom for a few hours during the day, and walking around the markets hearing nothing but Turkish spoken. absolute bliss.
And Christmas dinner was sitting in a bar in Fethiye the only 2 dining.
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What do you miss about Calis of old S'cabby,
Scabby ? what did he do so wrong to be called Scabby ? . lol. I would never call him that . lol
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Never? Not in a while anyway...
Scunner
Master of the Search Facility :D
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The Post Office (mark 2).
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Never? Not in a while anyway...
Scunner
Master of the Search Facility :D
yep nothing gets past you ;-) hehe .
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The rural side of things for me defo.... Whilst I know all the changes are for the better and a few I have welcomed, but all the buildings going up everywhere there is an empty piece of land!! Over the years I have loved seeing cows/ goats tethered up grazing, that is what I used to get up to every morning at the front of our apartment, the sun shining and a couple of cows having their brekky, now we have a monstrosity of a building that is has been left half finished and a great big stagnant pool of water that attracted mozzies by the droves last summer...Same the other side another apartment block squeezed in with a ridiculously small pool shoved in practically on the owners doorstep...Pretty soon there wont be any greenery left for the animals to graze on :(