Well thats my yearly jolly over
A week is not long enough so I am going to have to do some serious hubby arm twisting to ensure longer next year.
We stayed at the Sezgin apartments again. Had the Pool to ourselves all week! The resort seemed a bit quieter though there were significantly more British voices to be heard which I was told was because of a lot more British tourists staying at the Ottoman Residence.
As the exchange rate was so good prices actually seemed lower than last year and we only spent £280 in total for the week! Still loved the Sikadam and the Golden Roof but we LOVED the new restaurant The KAZAN.Its run by a turkish/english couple. The food was excellent and was probably why it was the only place that was busy every night.We ate there 3 nights out of 7 (and had breakfast and several lunches there too) It also was the only place that I found that sold local wine by the litre or half litre (half a litre was 7 ytl) whereas a bottle of Doluca was 25ytl or a glass 5ytl everywhere else. I have a feeling it was "less alcoholic" than the bottled stuff as I managed to polish off a margarita, a large baileys and half a litre of wine yet felt no ill effects still it tasted ok to me. The weather was hot but the normally gentle breeze was a bit OTT this time and for the last 4 days we gave up on the beach after lunch as you felt like you were being blown away so we retreated to our private pool at the Sezgin.
A couple of new shops have appeared and an open air cinema is in the process of being built. I was fortunate enough to meet up with some folks that I have met on other forums (who live there) and it was nice to put faces to names.
So thats it.. back to work next week. guess i'll just have to start planning for next yearRoll on 2007