We finished up in Samos and are now back in Didm, hauled out and on the hard. It was nice getting back to see all the sailing people in Didim. We had a last big BBQ with about 30 people. Most are heading off on their summer sailing in the next few days. We are hoping to lots of catch ups in southern Turquie over the rest of the year. Our hotel we have booked for the next 3 weeks is about 3k away and we ride the bikes to and fro each day. Our room is basic but b...

Well it's been an interesting few weeks even though we personally haven't done much. The war started in the Ukraine and we all tested positive then recovered and are now negative. We isolated on board for 7 days then it seemed OK for us all to go out again. No advice as to what strain it was so we assume Omricon. Peter and Cora were quite flu like for 4 days and each in bed. Me, just a cough and sneezes and Kiki next to nothing. I resisted the urge to use isolati...

Last Thursday we headed off to Turgutreis (almost impossible to pronounce I find, sort of rhymes with Pergatories but not quite). The was a sea captain called Turgut and Reis means captain. This town is on the Bodrum peninsular and about 3 hours cruising from Didim. It used to be a chain of tiny fishing villages but now they are pretty much all joined up. We have a reciprocal week here as the marina is part of the Didim D-Marin group. It is quite different to Did...

There hasn't been much going on since my last post. (Which apparently I misnamed or left out one numbered post or something - all fixed now) The weather has been very wintery with some nights at minus 1. the rest of Turkey has suffered a lot worse - Istanbul airport closed and a terminal roof collapsing under snow and the inland areas not far from here down to minus 14! Friends went off on a trip to Cappadocia in their camper and had to get dug out and towed. We ...

Christmas Day was a good one for us and I hope for you all too. The Didim Yacht Club put on a traditional English style buffet (Covid, what Covid?) and we had a table of 16, mostly yachties but some locals too. Emma and Don gave us a beautiful painting of Entre Nous that they had done from a photo they took when we were all in Iassos. Were going to put it up with the one Hew gave us of Chat Eau Bleu from a magazine article that he wrote after our Madagascar "even...