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Marmalade

We went for a brisk walk around Marti Sitesi today. It had to be brisk as the temperatures have fallen dramatically in the last few days from the 20s right down to single figures.





In fact the thermometer registered only 0.9'C last night and we have had very high winds. It was in our mind that the orange crops might be affected and we needed to get some bitter oranges for marmalade. As you can see below, we were nearly too late, but as we only needed a couple of kilos or so, we did find enough on the trees for our purposes.

Yesilkent minus it's pier

Orange crop

It's orange picking time here in Turkey and the market is looking really colourful at the moment with huge quantities of oranges and mandarins for sale. This is the sum total of our crop this year.

A mild start to the winter

While the UK shivers in the snow, we are still fortunate enough to be having a really mild start to our winter





Breakfast and coffee in the garden in t-shirts is the norm, and we can't believe that night time temperatures are still holding up at 20'C

Sue's Birthday

We took ourselves off to a lovely little hotel in Bodrum for Sue's Birthday





Sue indulged in her passion for retail therapy here at the Oasis Shopping Mall, as well as many other venues.





We also had time to investigate some of the historic remnants around including this one, The Myndos Gate.

Cheers ... Happy Birthday Sue