Hi all, 2nd day of our Turkish coastline tour. We set sail at 9 this morning under a burning sun and a clear sky. Where we are heading is a mystery as we are on 2 boats and our guide is on the other one . Our boat is beautiful and the crew friendly and helpful but that old problem of the language barrier is our only problem. We motor sailed for roughly 2hrs till we came to what seemed like a boat parking station. There boats anchored left, right and centre. Yach...

Mar ha ba (hello), Well at last there is excitement in the camp for we are finish with the bus and we are about to cruise the Mediterranean Sea. The bus takes us to the boat around 10 to drop off the bag then we have to 2:30 pm to shop in Antalya and Shirley made the most of that. We leave the port on a boat called Diamond Lila, this a beautiful Golet ,and we have the master bedroom and it is beautiful. The bed is queen size and very hard, will not know how tha...

Well it’s been 2 days since I made my last blog, oh that sounds familiar . The reason behind that we have been traveling by bus down the Mediterranean Sea so we hop on a boat and sail for 3 days. Along the way we stop a few times, mainly the old fashion piss stop but there were some interesting places as well. We left Cappadocia at 8am and headed to Konya . We stopped here to see the Mosque of Rumi, the father of whirling Dervishes and renowned for peaceful...

Today is an easier day as we have completed the hard yards . We awoke to the loud noise of the air ballon flame thrower very close to us. We looked out the door and all around us were balloons we had flown with hovering above us . They were so close we could see the people’s faces.It made for a spectacular wake up call. The first thing we went to see was a place called love valley . The name comes from the shape of the rocks that have been shaped through wind...

The phone rings ,it’s 4.30 am . Get up ,get dressed, get on the bus. Going to the take off stop to go ballooning . The driver seems intent on making it a long drive as he goes in and out of other peoples lift off area and is not finding ours. He tried at least 5 and then by magic a sparkle hit his eye and he found our base. Watching the men perform their task to get us in the air was a spectacle in it self, then we are in the basket. The pilot now does the saf...