We arrived in Istanbul today! Here is the Blue Mosque. We're staying in an apartment in Aksaray and this afternoon went for a wander around the Grand Bazaar which we liked a lot but didn't buy anything - shopping in Istanbul is expensive!
Lots of fantastic old cars in Turkey including this Renault 12. There's an estate version too which is also fab. Lots of bright yellow ones although I didn't manage to get a photo of one.
We had a lovely day today. We're staying in Dalyan, which we're not hugely convinced by - too many (other) tourists - so went for a drive around some nearby places. We visited Akyaka, which we serendiptiouosly read about in the paper last weekend (see here). We had a trip up the river on a boat and the boys did some swimming in the river and then we headed back towards Dalyan to visit the hot springs and mud baths: totally brilliant.
We left our beloved Kabak today to head to a small town on a river: Dalyan. On the way we stopped at two sites of ancient Lycian cities - Pinara and Tloss. This is the theatre in Pinara, from about 550 BC. There were also some amazing rock tombs - I'll try and post a photo of those later.
Here is a guest post from Louie: "Today we went on a boat to butterfly valley with two new friends. On the way back we stoped near a waterfall and had some fun diving off the boat. On my first jump I was pretty scared but on the ones afterwards it was a lot of fun!"
Mostly we are sitting on the beach, swimming, eating delicious food and drinking cold beer (not Louie and Oslo).
We're in Kabak - a small beach near Oludeniz but a world away in terms of development. It's so beautiful here. We're staying in a place with little wooden huts about a five minute walk up the hill from the beach. We're daydreaming about making this a regular stop on our summer trips from India back to England.
