BacktoBodrum

Plenty of posts on this blog look back two or three thousand years  to when Lelegians, Carians, Persians, Greeks or  Romans were busy settl...

Bodrum castle in January To write is to travel without leaving your seat. To write well is to populate your head with a never-ending s...

Climbing to Pedasa acropolis c. 1985 I first visited Pedasa in about 1985. Access was via a hard climb from the Bodrum...

I've made these delicious tarts a few times over the holiday period and have been asked for the recipe on each occasion so, as I have...

These three derelict buildings stand at the entrance to our village. They've been in this sorry state since way before we bought our ...

I picked a bunch of anemones from the garden to celebrate BacktoBodrum's second birthday When we left Bodrum in 2000, we moved to E...

2014 will see the 11 local councils in the Bodrum area merge into one large municipal council with one mayor overseeing all. As I mentioned ...

There's a new bank in Bodrum. The name echoes my feelings about the current state of the Turkish Lira. Oh Dear! Turkish lira...

This is my favourite photograph from this week's festivities.  It is Jake the dog's second Christmas with us and my daughter'...

This Christmas marks a landmark in our family. My daughter has moved out into her own apartment and for the first time in 21 years we got th...