BacktoBodrum

Flags go up all over Turkey to celebrate 90 years of the Turkish Republic. Some are traffic-stoppers.

In the winter of 88/89, I worked as an English teacher in a small  agency in Bodrum called Era Yachting. The mild mannered owner, Erman Ara...

I write this blog because I enjoy writing. Sometimes I'm happy with the result and press the publish button, other times I write a c...

It is such a wonderful time of the year.  The morning mists hanging over our village briefly turn us into a magical kingdom.  ...

The Muslim world is celebrating the first day of Eid and the majority of families in our village are settling down with their roast or brais...

Moving abroad is fraught with anxieties wherever you choose to settle and the bureaucracy involved in gaining and then maintaining ...

I arrived back safe and sound but chilled to the bone on Saturday.  Winter temperatures were blowing down from the North sweeping away ...

I'm on a brief visit to Greece and managed to just miss the storms that hit Bodrum on Tuesday. I flew out early in the morning an hour b...

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...