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Local elections are looming and in March 2014 the existing 11 municipalities in the Bodrum area will merge into one large Bodrum auth...

With the equinox behind us, summer is coming to an end and for the first time last night I could have done with a blanket in the earl...

As I'm sure you've gathered by now, as the summer approaches, we withdraw from busy Bodrum and decamp to the countryside where ...

We had another visit from the Raşit the basket weaver. Again he was already well into production on our terrace when we woke up. ...

Yesterday lunch time I was on the bridge of RFA Mounts Bay which is docked in Bodrum for a week. The Royal Fleet Auxiliary is a civilian ...

I'm home at last and I can't think of a nicer way to be welcomed back than a plastic bag full of courgette flowers left on the do...

  I've grown up with the music Leonard Cohen. He fueled my teenage angst; kept me company at the end of love affairs and gen...

  I haven't had much time for writing in the past week; full time employment and blogging seem to be incompatible in my case. But it...

Photo from The Green Optimistic Once, many years ago, Teo and I tried to pick prickly pears that were growing around our garden in ...

  On my last trip to Hydra I didn't have time to venture far from the port, but this time I've a few evenings to wander and  e...