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  Annette and Ray on the last day If you have lived in Bodrum for a while you will know Annette Hanisch; she has been solving the foreign co...

This is not a black and white photo.   It's a shot from the roof of the Istanbul Modern in Karaköy on a mıd-January afternoon. In contra...

  My late husband was a Beşiktaş supporter. He would follow all their matches on TV but I'm pretty sure he never attended a live match. ...

   We leave a drab, misty Finsbury Park and less than an hour later we are sipping coffee in a the elegant Oatlands Park Hotel, built on the...

 But not for me as I'm still stuck at home with a chest infection.  Bodrum Spor football team is playing a home match against Kayseri Sp...

  This is why I chose to live in Bodrum. Even in mid-winter, we get hot, sunny days.  After a week of cold, wet weather, the first afternoon...

For the first time in my four-decade plus existance in Bodrum, I am flying directly from Bodrum to the UK in the winter. The departure bo...

Yesterday was meant to be a busy day. We (as in 'the Bodrum Art Collective') had a pop-up sale planned. I spent Friday putting a ...

Below is the blog post I wrote in April 2015. Bodrum Spor had just secured their move from the amateur league to the 3rd division to join th...

The first serious downpour of the winter on Saturday put pay to my plans to visit the Milas Olive Harvest festival, but the Sunday weath...