Last week I had a problem with my email; that kept posting me the same message; five times a minute, 300 times an hour, 7,200 in a day (this is on topic - eventually - I promise). When I came back from my assault on the scarp face of the massive hill ("down"

that looms overhead for my cardio-vascular workout, I discovered my inbox full of messages from Calis Beach and Fethiye Forum saying, "Topic Reply". "Topic Reply", "Topic Reply", "Top .......... ". Oh damn, I thought, that fault has come back again. But it turned out that they were real replies; but not necessarily about tourism. The next time I post about about tourism perhaps I ought to say that ex-pats are not tourists in Turkey, therefore know nothing about it and so shouldn't reply.
Or perhaps I ought not say that.