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Do watch the video below - an audacious tomb raid the thieves felt so comfortable executing that they make a home movie. </div>
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A new museum has quietly opened in Milas. If there has been a grand inauguration, I’ve missed it. This low key start belies the exciting archaeological find in the centre of Milas, the discovery of which would make a great Hollywood blockbuster – I can already see George Clooney as the lead.</div>
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In 2010, a daring tomb raid was discovered. The thieves rented a house in the dilapidated centre of Milas, drilled a wide tunnel down several metres and then across until they bored through marble and discovered a sarcophagus surrounded by elegant wall paintings. All this went on without the authorities getting wind of it. Travelling back from Istanbul one time we met a chap whose mother lived in an old house very close to this escapade. She constantly complained to her family that she could here strange noises and they just told her that she had tinnitus. So confident were these thieves/treasure hunters that they then made a video of their discovery and it’s on YouTube for us all to see. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWSKwMkAWPg" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWSKwMkAWPg</a></div>
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Who organised this raid is still unknown (or unpublished). Through all my time organising tours to the area, this part of Ancient Mylasa was referred to as a temple so it was news to many of us that there was a burial chamber here and the excavations started after the raid was discovered have pretty much proved that this is was a mausoleum dedicated to Hekatomnus, father of Mausolus ( So should we now call all mausoleums – hekotomneums?).</div>
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I've been dragging my heals writing about Sagalassos so it’s about time I put my best foot forward and stepped up to the challenge. This will probably be my last post in Blogger as I have just signed up to Bluehost with a new address www.backtobodrum.com and will be switching to Wordpress so I can continue blogging on my phone. It is not proving easy to master the new format even with friend Simon doing all the hard work. It is fitting then to dedicate this post to Marcus Aurelius, one of the five ‘good’ Roman emperors - philosopher and stoic, whose marble head and two legs remaining from his giant statue, were discovered in the bathhouse at Sagalassos and now sit in the Burdur Museum. </div>
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His writings, which later became known as ‘Meditations’ are widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophical works and have inspired leaders through out the centuries. A stoic attitude will help combat the urge to throw the computer out of the widow as I fail to get to grips with Wordpress.</div>
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These photos of the excavation were displayed at the site. Oh to have been there when the first tentative sweeps of a trowel uncovered one toe, then the next. Although from the above photo, it looks like his knees saw the light of day first. </div>
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<a href="https://ozlemsturkishtable.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Özlem Warren's Blog </a> has been my go-to destination for recipe checking and inspiration for several years now. I joined the chorus of her many friends urging her to put all her recipes in one place and write a book. She has gone further than this and produced a cookery memoir that paints an aromatic picture of what it is like to grow up in a Turkish household that appreciates its Eastern Mediterranean culinary heritage. Özlem has written a book that is so lovely to look at that my copy will be kept on the coffee table, not on the kitchen shelf. </div>
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Congratulations to Özlem for creating a work of art - on the page this time rather than on a plate, and to have sold over 700 hardback copies before the book has hit the bookshops, shows how many fans she has around the world. </div>
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BacktoBodrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07627125508442009313noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5049397242436569179.post-86759077917455656212018-10-14T02:01:00.001-07:002018-10-14T13:43:40.013-07:00Frangipani 2 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Taking a dog into a bank in the past was a bit of a grey area, sometimes we were let in sometimes shooed out but today Murat, the friendly security guard at Ak Bank, confirmed that legally all well behaved pets on a lead have to be allowed to accompany their owners into the bank. That's very good news for Jake and me as I can now comfortably do my banking during our morning walk rather than before or after. BacktoBodrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07627125508442009313noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5049397242436569179.post-36774206063758886182018-10-09T00:25:00.000-07:002018-10-11T13:31:28.806-07:00Bodrum is buzzing but I can’t show you the pictures Where is the photo you ask - I’m asking the same question on every forum I can find about blogging. After losing my iPad and iPhone in the same week, I decided to buy a big phone to take the place of both. As everything is backed up in iCloud, I chose an iPhone 8 Plus with all the bells and whistles and massive price tag. I have used the Blogger app on my iPad for the past 6 years so assumed I would just carry on only to find that it is no longer available for iPhones. I can use the web version on my phone to add text but it won’t download photos. Hours of trawling the net came up with an app only downloadable to an iPad. Friend Angela luckily had an iPad mini for sale at a non-eye watering price, so I drove over to Yalıkavak on Sunday to collect it. I set it up, installed the app to find that despite the description in the App Store, it didn’t support Blogger. The only alternatives I have now are to 1. Buy a Google-friendly tablet or 2. Swap the blog to Wordpress. Or I just have to stick near my desktop which still supports the blog but as it is now over 10 years old, there is a fair chance that it will give up the ghost soon. The first option is more expense, the second is daunting. Any advice would be very welcome. <span id="goog_586783956"></span><span id="goog_586783957"></span>BacktoBodrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07627125508442009313noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5049397242436569179.post-41058156348938412332018-10-05T10:14:00.003-07:002018-10-05T10:14:49.808-07:00Paws for a coffee<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A pause was needed today - a dash in the pouring rain on Monday with a rucksack full of shopping lead to a smashed iPad. Old age (the phone, not me) caused my iPhone to black-out on Thursday resulting in confusion over a missed rendezvous, (sorry again if you are reading this!) A miss-placed brush while painting and drinking G&T at the same time ended with the glass and now purple drink crashing down on the floor. Today was a day of picking up pieces. It started well with a trip to <a href="https://backtobodrum.blogspot.com/2018/03/more-brush-less-keyboard.html" target="_blank">Şule's</a> to choose a colour for my new kitchen cupboards. The shop wasn't open but I spent a very pleasant 30 minutes in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Joy-Art-Cafe/232255347387921" target="_blank">Joy Art</a> cafe next door, drinking very good coffee with Jake by my side. I'm very happy to find another comfortable spot that allows well behaved dogs inside. We shall go back to sample the food. </div>
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For once ignore the archaeological remains in this photo, I'll write about them next, but concentrate on the large orange building on the left. This is the Sagalassos Lodge & Spa where friend Helen and I based ourselves for 3 nights to explore the treasures of Pisidea. An inspired location at 1250 metres high and only 4 kms from the ancient site, the hotel grounds spread over 40,000 square metres of forest. We made full use of the facilities as soon as we arrived and any lingering Lake Salda clay was washed off in the hammam and steamed out in the sauna, followed by a swim in the indoor pool with a panoramic view of the valley below. We even splashed out on an aromatherapy massage from Kaya, the resident modern-day Gaia who kneaded some life back into our tired muscles after we'd spent 6 hours walking around Sagalassos.<br />
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The food is locally sourced, tasty and extremely good value and the staff friendly and helpful. Go at the right time and there are yoga classes, art exhibitions, organised forest walks and bicycles are available in a rack by the entrance. It is also very pet-friendly. You will be met by Fox the hotel labrador and six other mutts of various shapes and sizes are looked after by the staff. I didn't take Jake this time as museums don't have the same relaxed attitude to dogs but I will definitely go back with him on my next trip to the Taurus Mountains.<br />
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<br />BacktoBodrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07627125508442009313noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5049397242436569179.post-69815710059198211372018-09-28T22:45:00.001-07:002018-09-28T22:45:18.016-07:00A morning smile<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJCabD3p5eWsrm6AfqHzIBd1fdOqLZpgFd1oJIlwKZ-ToJryW85W2cvXGLnGk3cLnxVlNaIiRHFhkiGCkmEXTkRuESjdrt5OIWGVBlzJVunHkYT_r8bRLNhlY0HABKf-qrQvUfY2truenZ/s640/blogger-image-252587270.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJCabD3p5eWsrm6AfqHzIBd1fdOqLZpgFd1oJIlwKZ-ToJryW85W2cvXGLnGk3cLnxVlNaIiRHFhkiGCkmEXTkRuESjdrt5OIWGVBlzJVunHkYT_r8bRLNhlY0HABKf-qrQvUfY2truenZ/s640/blogger-image-252587270.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Look who we met at Yalvaç museum. Discovered close to Pisidian Antioch this lion made me smile too. </div>BacktoBodrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07627125508442009313noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5049397242436569179.post-14380431028075017842018-09-27T22:19:00.000-07:002018-09-27T22:34:06.529-07:00Change of view<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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It's lovely to wake up to a different view from time to time. Even better when the trip away from home is purely for pleasure and the whole day ahead will be filled with archaeological sites. Lots of photos to come when I get back to my desk top. </div>
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My husband was very fond of his hats. His nickname in Bodrum was <i>'Şapkalı', </i>literally 'with a hat'.<br />
His favourite was a panama bought from Lock & Co in London. This one was passed on to brother Tim at Teo's funeral. The everyday caps have been passed around to friends or given to charity but one hat remained. When the panama was put away for winter, the felt fedora came out of its box. I couldn't imagine giving it to charity and it was not something my son-in-law would wear so it has been hanging around...until Monday when Tamer rang to say he was near Bodrum. They met in their first year at M.E.T.U. and remained friends, popping in and out of each other's lives in Bodrum and Ankara. So the fedora has found another good looking head to sit upon and I know it will cut a dash in the streets of Ankara.<br />
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The year is 1982, my first season working in Bodrum for a flotilla company called Yachtours. At the end of each trip, the lead-boat crew of three would arrange a barbeque for the guests. We had a massive iron grill made and we'd take it out to Papuç Bay once a week to cook up enough steak, chicken and meatballs for around 50 hungry sailors. (This is no longer possible as Papuç Bay is now the home of Sea Garden Hotel and non residents are not allowed access). We also had to take all the drink. We usually managed all this with little fuss or bother and everyone had a great time. I can't remember what lead up to the above photo. Skipper Jimmy is trying to rescue the provisions with Bosun Pete rowing to the rescue while Hostess Annie was was on the lead boat taking photos. I know I had all the meat on board with me so it is the grill and beer Jimmy is saving. Paul, the land-based manager, was probably on his way with replacement dry charcoal. The party went ahead without further hitches and the clients had no idea we had nearly drowned their supper. The steel dinghy by the way was presented to us as 'The Unsinkable Tender'. I suspect we saw that as a challenge. </div>
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On Sunday Jimmy was back in Bodrum with his wife Joey. Paul and Eileen, like me are still living here (although only for a couple more weeks) and the old team was back together for a lunch in Sugar and Salt, just meters from the Marina where we used to work together 36 years ago. This time nobody got wet feet. </div>
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This year I am prepared. My bicycle has brand new tyres so I should be able to cycle the whole route. I will be filling my basket with flowers and pedalling the car-free streets of Bodrum. The event starts at 4pm tomorrow (Sunday) in the centre of Bodrum. If you were planning to drive through at that time - forget it. It's time to get on your bike. </div>
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Last weekend had me looking frantically for a bicycle pump. My bike had sat unused for at least six months and the tyres were flat - not in a calm, smooth, toneless, low-heeled, unfizzy, unchanging way - in a deflated, airless way. You can see I've been reading the thesaurus again and it's all due to the <i>Süslü </i>women's bicycle ride on Sunday 25th. 'Süslü' is translated as 'chic' in most English language Turkish publications, but it really means adorned or decorated. Someone in a monochrome Chanel suit would be 'chic' but she wouldn't be 'süslü'. Add a pink feather boa, a pair of fairy wings and a couple of balloons and then she would be 'süslü'. I held off writing this blog post because I couldn't think of a good word, but hopefully you get my drift. My bike was more süslü than me but I managed some fake flowers in my hair and a charity shop Christian Lacroix jacket, worthy of an early episode of Ab Fab. And why were we dressing up and riding through the streets of Bodrum? Because 4 years ago, Sema Gür, a teacher in Izmir wanted to encourage women to ride bikes, without having to invest in all the lycra and padded gussets that usually go with the sport.<br />
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This year 28 cities and towns staged a 'decorated women's bike ride' and as a non political event it managed to highlight a number of important issues including the right for women to ride a bicycle - a freedom recently withdrawn in Iran. The right to wear what we want, whether it be shorts or a hijab. The demand that bicycles be given safe space to ride, rather than taking our life into our hands every time we take to the road in Turkey and the general appeal to get out of the car and on to two wheels.<br />
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At the end of the season, hardworking charter yacht crew used to go on a "Living". They'd done the 'Working and Earning Money' - several months with barely an hour to themselves - so as a reward, they'd load up their boats with rakı and head off up the Gulf of Gökova to catch fish and party for a week. </div>
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I had a bit of a "Living" on Saturday to reward myself for a busy summer spent in planes, taxis and ferries. It was only a day on a small wooden yacht popping into the bays around Kisebükü but I can confirm that being in the company of good friends, eating fish straight from the barbecue, standing chest high in crystal clear turquoise water while contemplating whether the geology of the rocky bay is art, and a drink or two with a spontaneous game of Charades, is definitely 'Living' and we don't do enough of it. </div>
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Not everyone is rushing around the Bodrum peninsula in a car or minibus - it just feels that way in July and August (and June and September). Some have time to sit and watch the idiots dash by and contemplate the madness around them. I'm looking forward to very soon joining the ranks of those that have time to sit and stare. I will be looking outwards, not down at a smart phone, but maybe through the lense of a camera. I am very aware that BacktoBodrum Bog has been a bit 'meh' recently and the only excuse I have is that I've been working away and have missed concerts, shows, races and other events which would have made good copy. "Can do better" has been stamped on the 2018 report card and as September marks the start of new term, I shall endeavour to get this upgraded to "Much improved" this Autumn. <br />
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I had a conversation with a young woman yesterday which reminded me why I like living in Bodrum. I shall translate it as best I can into English. We had been chatting for a bit when she said,<br />
"Are you normally a foreigner?"<br />
The word "normally" threw me and I dithered over the answer, so she helped me out,<br />
"I mean, when you are not speaking Turkish, are you a foreigner?"<br />
So I told her that I had been born in England but moved to Turkey many years ago.<br />
"How many years?" She wanted to know.<br />
A second of mental arithmetic and I came up with the number 36.<br />
"Wow " she said "I am 22 so that's 14 years longer than me, so you are normally a Türk and only sometimes a foreigner."<br />
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I thank her for her confidence but I will always be a foreigner and it is a very pleasant place to be. The Turkish word 'yabancı' defines someone from outside. It could be outside your village, your town or your country. I have been very fortunate as 'an outsider ' in Bodrum and have always been treated very kindly. In the early days it was embarrassing to be a yabancı as we were always ushered to the front of queues or found a chair to sit on while others were standing. Refusing to comply caused more fuss so we gave in and accepted. The influx of foreign tourists in the late 1980s put pay to that thank goodness. I've heard myself described as a 'Yerli Yabancı' - a 'local outsider' or 'Bizim Yabancı' 'our foreigner', so if I'm ever faced with the question again I will reply that I'm a 'local foreigner' and happy to be so.<br />
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Looks like a pancake but contains no eggs or milk, the ubiquitous <i>Gözleme </i>is a one of the best snacks to eat while traveling around Turkey. </div>
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This cheese and potato titbit set me back nine and a half lira with the lemonade and I took half home to eat later. I can't think of many places where less than two dollars or just over a pound will get you this much tasty food.<br />
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To make <i>Gözleme </i>you need a large flat surface to roll out the simple flatbread mixture of flour, salt and water and a long thin rolling pin to achieve a paper thin circle of dough. </div>
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This is then spread usually with herbs and cheese or potato and cheese and flipped over on itself as it is cooked on a metal skillet made specially for the job. A wash of butter or oil allows the dough to brown. You know it's cooked when it stats to <i>gözleme</i> - brown <i>eyes</i> appear on the cooked surface. </div>
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It's Grape Harvest Festival time again in Karaova. This will be the fourth year and it looks set to be a good one. Festivities start this evening with a procession in Bodrum and continue with two days of food, craft, agriculture, carpets, wine, cheese, honey and everything else related to this fertile plain. I was upset to miss this again for the second year running as my return from Hydra is booked for 5th September but by a strange quirk or two of fate, a serious dog bite in Italy and a 48 hour plus power cut in Hydra, I am home early. Too late to get involved in any of the organisation but in plenty of time to enjoy all the local talent on display.<br />
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<a href="https://backtobodrum.blogspot.com/2015/09/vine-harvest-festival.html" target="_blank">Read all about the first Karaova Grape Harvest Festival </a>BacktoBodrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07627125508442009313noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5049397242436569179.post-34803259584660176072018-08-25T01:28:00.000-07:002018-08-25T01:28:24.650-07:00Mooning about <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Mooning around/about -<span class="st">English informal to spend your time lazily, moving around with no real purpose; "I wish you'd stop <em>mooning</em> about and do something useful!" </span></i><br />
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<span class="st">Not strictly true, I'm on Hydra earning a living but when I am not actively working I'm stuck for something to do. I've read a couple of books, painted a few pictures but nothing really hits the spot. I really want to go BacktoBodrum to get on with all the renovation plans I have whizzing around in my head. The building season doesn't officially start until the middle of October but I want to bag <a href="https://backtobodrum.blogspot.com/2018/05/deadline.html" target="_blank">Ugur the builder</a></span><i><span class="st"> </span></i><span class="st">before he gets started on a bigger more lucrative project than mine. The decline in the value of the Turkish Lira has hit my savings hard and I want to spend the money in the bank before it becomes small change. As someone who for the past 2 years has been telling everyone else how overvalued the TL was, I really should have listened to myself and converted it to Euros or Dollars but like a lot of folk here, I got used to living off the interest which is paid into the current account monthly and just let things ride. But hey it's only money!</span><br />
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<span class="st">The photo of the nearly full harvest moon rising over Hydra was taken a couple of nights ago. I went out with my camera to catch the sunset but was let down by a bank of cloud that spread itself over the Peloponnese just as the sun began to sink. I packed up my camera and turned around to walk home just as the moon peeped over the hill. By the time camera was unpacked and turned on the yellow orb had risen well above the hillside. Sometimes the serendipitous shot is the best. </span><br />
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