Bayram

Here we are in the middle of Kurban Bayram (Feast of the Sacrifice). We went for lunch with our friends David and Ann. Later in the afternoon we all went down to the bay where they have their boat moored.

As you can see it was a beautiful day. While we were down there, the Turkish family that lives there invited us all to join them in their evening meal. It was really generous of them and so we sat down with them and shared in their Bayram celebrations.

Emma and Ege's New Baby

Emma and Egeman have a new addition to their family, Eva was born on Saturday 20th October in Izmir hospital. Mum and babe are home now fit and well. Ellie is really happy with her new little sister.
 

Unusual Visitor

We had an unusual visitor to the park this morning. We think it's a red-eared terrapin, which apparently lives both on land and in water, and eats both vegetation and animal matter.
 

Our Return

Bear in mind that we had only been gone for 9 days

During that time the excavators had moved in, cleared the ground, dug the ground works ...

Put in the base concrete ...

and were well on the way to start building the top structure of the 2 pairs of houses at the top of our road.

Oh well; no peace this winter then ... the builder expects to finish around January ... maybe!!