We stayed one week in Bodrum in the end. We both had appointments at the private (very nice and new) hospital there for dermatology checks. Peter has had a chunk cut out of under his foot which has made walking sore. We spent a day in Kos by ferry as it was easier than checking EN in and out etc etc. We had to pick up some warranty parts for EN that Lagoon had sent. it is too difficult getting things into Turkiye. It was only a blind and a part for the water maker. Peter hobbled stubbornly around until I insisted he holed up in a nice cool comfy restaurant for the day. I had made a hair and nails appointments to fill in the day as the ferries only ran 9.15 there and 6pm back. The pick up of the Lagoon parts only took 10 minutes!

Before the foot thing we had snorkelled over to the castle wall and saw canon balls in the water - pretty cool. You can see in the walls the round ends of pillars from the Mausoleum that the Knights took form the ruins after the earthquakes that toppled one of the 7 wonders of the world. We had a look at the remains of the site right in the middle of Bodrum. It must have been spectacular in it's day. There were some good visual depictions of what it was like. We also bought a Turkish rug for our cabin from a not too touristy shop where the man seemed to know what he was talking about. Bodrum is very big on knock off clothes, watches, jewellery you name it. The EU fake laws don't seem to apply here, it's all very obvious and blatant. The little old toothless man sweeping the paths had a Christian Dior T shirt on - roll over in your grave, Christian Dior!

After 6 days the Harbour Master came by and told us to take off the shore line as the Castle is an historic site and you can't tie up to it. We were OK swinging anyway for one night. We left that next morning for 3 hours to Knidos, just tucked under the end of the Datca Peninsular. A not so well known ancient site and important Doric town and sea port - one we won't be climbing around on thanks to Peter's foot. I can do with a break from ruins anyway. A smallish bay with many, many boats in, so much for not so well known. The wind gusted all night up to 20 knots which kept us on varying degrees of alert most of the night. …. boats with torches out, re anchorings, two boats with tangled anchor chains etc. Lots had left by early morning to be gradually replaced by day tripper boats all day. Welcome to the "season" I guess. We've been used to having it all to ourselves. We thought about tying up to the restaurant's jetty but were too big for its rickertyness.

We left Knidos for Datca early so as to arrive before the day trippers and anchored at South Bay with a line ashore. Nice for swimming. Datca town on the waterfront is busy but not with English tourists this time, mostly other Europeans it seems. We liked it a lot. I got a pair of crutches for Peter so he could walk about a bit with the plaster off but not getting germs. The rubber foot (made in Chine) of one broke almost immediately so the next day I went back and got a replacement. We ended up modifying both anyway to make them stronger. We got a taxi up to Eski Datca, the old town that was being left to ruins but has more recently become a place for holiday houses and restaurants etc and is very cute. You don't have to walk far however to end up in a field with a goat shed. We had lunch there and 100% goat ice cream - yum.

Last night we moved to North Bay Datca because two boats (despite the bay being almost empty) anchored so close to us we worried that they may interfere with our anchor chain and strong winds were predicted. We'll stay here for a couple of days them make our way to Marmaris via few nice places we have chosen.