Mooring Clashes

We have been experiencing some aggro down at the boat, where our mooring has been under threat from a couple of particularly careless Turks and their bigger boats.

Our boat in the centre has had some near misses with both the heavy wooden fishing boat (top left) and the one on the top right. Both of them would moor too close to "Gremlyn" and as the wind increased (as it has done for most of last month), the boats collide. With the help of some of the local Turks on Gaye 2, we have persuaded the top left boat to leave the area and the one on the right to put in his own mooring in a place where his boat wouldn't interfere with any other. To be honest, if each of the boats had stayed in the positions in the picture there would have been no problem, but at one point the fishing boat was moored BETWEEN ours and the one on the right. They just have no idea ..... never mind, at the end of August many of these holidaymakers will leave, and only the locals will remain.

An Alternative to American fast food

We have a new restaurant on the block - Mola (means rest or break)



It's just down Ataturk Boulevard from Arti and Roka, and provides really good food in comfortable and pleasant surroundings and is where we decided to celebrate our 34th wedding anniversary last night.



We had a very pleasant evening.
A couple of nights previous we had been into Arti's new café bar next door to Arti Restaurant. there we had a snack and drinks whilst listening to some pleasant Turkish folk music performed by a young Turkish lad singing and playing his acoustic guitar.

The Beginning of the End for Didim

As if Turkey can't produce it's own really good fast food outlets, producing şiş and gözleme and köfte ... finally the Americans have arrived to ply us with their version of fat-food. (not a mis-print!!)

Shame really, Didim becomes less Turkish and more like every other city in the world, and with each advance of these global companies, it's own peculiar sparkle is diminished a little more.
For those of you who are sad enough to be interested in it's location, it's in the old Carrefour café next to the supermarket (yet another global player).