Dikencik

Mavi Konak Hotel

The evening is warm as I sit here composing the latest blog, wondering how many people out there read it.  We know the family does, we also know some people are struggling to leave a comment.  If you are a registered ‘friend’, when you open the blog sign in first and it might improve your chances of saying something.  If you are not a ‘friend’ and do not want to be, we would still like to hear from you, please e-mail us on either chris@chrisvickery.co.uk or meganulrika@hotmail.com  with comments and if you think we don’t know you, explain how you found out about the blog, thanks.

The landing outside our room

Meg Embroidering

We left the Muses House and spent a couple of nights in Muğla (Moolah) in a Ottoman courtyard house now  a small guesthouse with five bedrooms, it is owned by a German couple, who were away, and we were looked after by a young German volunteer!  The town is not really a tourist spot (all the more reason to visit), a great old town with all sorts of shops/businesses – sheet metal, leather, blacksmith and a barbers, well more than one barber, I think the average Turkish male has his hair cut every other day and a shave.  Talking of which I needed a beard trim and Meg wanted to see me have a shave as well, the whole works, lather, cut throat razor and everything.  

The Shave

'The Donkey Down Dere' - Tied

Blog Writing

Anyway Muğla was good, we then caught, yet another bus, to Fethiye where we were picked up by Ayse and Cengiz our new Helpx hosts.

This a different area of Turkey now, on the Mediterranean coast, and we are 700m up in the hills, where the pine clad slopes are a little cooler in the evenings, still very hot during the day.  Our first couple of days turned out be very eventful, we were interviewed for Turkish television for a magazine programme for a slot about volunteering, it will shown next week - Tuesday or Wednesday – we are trying to get a copy.  Then the next morning Megan trod on a scorpion just outside our door (we are in separate quarters to our hosts) and was stung, then had to go to the health centre for anti-venom and antihistamine injections, one on each cheek, she is ok, by the way the scorpion died…….!  

The Offender

TV Star

There seems to be lots to do, both here and around the area, so we will be kept busy for the next three weeks, already been here for nearly a week and we can’t believe how fast time is moving.  Went for a swim in the Med this morning with our hosts then breakfast, the water was smooth and as warm as a bath, fabulous. 

The Med