Showing posts with label Turkey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Turkey. Show all posts

28 Feb 2024

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

 

 

 Fethije Tombs in Turkey

 





I took these pictures in Turkey when I stayed in Miramar and together with a group we took a boat along the  Fethiye-rock-tombs it was very interesting and impressive. 

Fethiye-Tombs (Countries & Cities) 

 


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1 Jun 2016

TURKEY HOLIDAYS DAY 2

This morning at breakfast on the terrace we had little visitors which came eating the left overs of the guest's breakfast.



They especially loved the pancakes, I have to admit me too !!



Of course a little cat found the way to our table at noon and Nicole fed him with fish. I think she was not the only one !





The views we have during our meals



The way to the beach



Views over the sea



The seafront way which we only have explored a little !

Tomorrow we will do an excursion, we will see the turtle island ! Must be beautiful.

I have a lot of difficulties with internet, it's like Russian roulette, sometimes it works, sometimes not. So I am sorry if I can't visit your blogs as usual, it's not a lack of time, there are birds sitting on the line !


WORDLESS WEDNESDAY



Little sparrow taking a bath


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25 Nov 2010

THANKSGIVING SEEN FROM ABROAD

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Before I started blogging I didn't really know what Thanksgiving meant. I had only seen on TV when an American President showed up with a fat turkey and then saved him from the stove. We found that rather funny.

Of course we don't celebrate Thanksgiving as we didn't sail with the Mayflower to another continent but stayed here. Not even I have a great, great, great etc. uncle who was on that boat ! I digged a little in history and learned that only 54 from the original 102 pilgrims survived the cruise and only because they were fed by 91 Indians (today called American Natives). If they would have known what happened later, they probably would have eaten their harvest alone. For them it wasn't really a thanks giving celebration for the next +/- 360 years.

I also knew from my aunt's letters when she celebrated Thanksgiving with friends and family. She had married an American just after the war and was my mother's sister. She sent lots of recepes to prepare a good stuffed turkey, which we had then on Christmas, when they showed up in Germany. Before we had chicken.

When Europeans first encountered turkeys in the America Continent, they thought they were imported through Turkey and that name stuck as the name of the bird. It's amazing what I learn in Wikipedia !

In Waterloo there are lots of Americans living and therefore the stores stocked fat deepfreezed turkeys imported from the States together with all ingredients which usually you can't find here, but business is business.


Our turkeys can live a little longer, at least until Christmas.

I wish all my American friends a very happy Thanksgiving and please put a little piece of turkey for me aside !




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18 Jun 2007

MANIC MONDAY - HEAT

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MANIC MONDAY


Kudasasi

The four last days of my roundtrip in Turkey I stayed in Kudasasi which is one of Turkey's principle holiday resorts, and is a real cute little old city situated on the west coast of Turkey- 90km south of Izmir. It is also close to the important historical sites including Ephesus, where I had also been.


Of course getting up very early in the morning (sometimes at 5.30 am) and climbing the whole day in the heat through roman and greek historical ruins was at the end a little tireing.


The hotel where I stayed was very nice and of course had also airconditionning against this still spring heat and I was quite surprised that a lot of private houses were equipped with that too.


The city itself had quite some very nice mosques and was surrounded by a big wall from ancient greek and roman times. The first day I spend there was very hot and cloudy a sticky heat hang over the little town despite the fact that it's located just at the sea.


Kusadasi also has a very big habour where Cruise ships from all countries stop to visit the town. The Setur Marina is one of the largest and best equipped marinas in Turkey with the capacity of 629 yachts both a float and on shore, visited between 2500-3000 boats each year.


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The remains of the city wall





One of the fortress had a wonderful inner courtyard, decorated with beautiful carpets and there was also a café where you could get cold drinks.



Of course there were shops side by side, selling jewlery, leather clothes (very cheap), souvenirs, and carpets.


carpets wherever you look






Suddenly a heavy rain started and in a minute the streets were full of water. Here you can see the shop owners trying to put their things inside and free their shops from water.





Fortunately the rain stopped quickly and I visited the fisher market. What an odor !



It still was cloudy but warm. This is a monument of freedom at the seafront




Women chatting


There were a lot of yellow taxis all around



I watched military divers who had pulled out all this junk from the sea !





The rest of my holidays the weather was beautiful as you can see here. Cruise ships boarding. They usually stayed there over night.


I didn't suffer from the heat, because there was always a little breeze coming from the sea.

7 Jun 2007

13 THINGS ABOUT TURKEY

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Pookıe waıts for my return wıth her turkısh collar




As you probably know İ am here ın Turkey and try to wrıte on an englısh/turkish kewyboard. Blogger too ıs all ın turkısh and İ can only guess what to do !

Here are 13 thıngs İ like about Turkey :

1. The land ıs beautiful and has an unbelıevable varıety of landscapes

2. People are extremely friendly and most of them speak good or at least lıttle engliısh

3. İt ıs a very hıstorıcal place

4. There are many roman and greek ruıns wıtnessıng of a glorıous past. They are mostly datıng before J.C.

5. The troyan horse ıs here too, a quıte impressive reproduction.

6. From moonlike landscapes, red rocky, and soft green mountains everthıng ıs represented.

7. The roads are all very good

8. Turkısh drıvers are for suıcıders, they all suffer from color blındness and red lights are always green. Whıle drıvıng they have their hand on the horn and the whole traffic is very noisy !

9. When crossıng a street, better ıncrease your life insurance, walking people have no rights

10. Istambul ıs one of the most beautıfullest cıtıes I have ever seen, ı.e. London, Amsterdam, New York or Los Angeles.

11. İt ıs a meltıng pot of dıfferent cultures, muslims, chrıstians and jews are livıng here side by side wıthout any problems.

12. The cıty seems to be quite clean, there are many parcs, old sultan palaces and a lot of historical places.

13. I haven't seen any beggar or homless' ıf they ask for money they always present somethıng to buy such as a tıssu e.g..