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I have just spent a very pleasant morning in Mumcular at a festival of regional crafts, food and drink and a celebration of Mother Nature...

Photo from Daily Sabah Newspaper. Slideshow  here Insults are flying. Everyone is blaming the town council, developers, large hotel chai...

What is it about Bank Holidays and weather? Two days of rain were predicted to herald the start of Sacrifice Festival, Eid al-Adha, Kurba...

Acclimatising to Turkish village life always takes me a couple of days after a trip abroad. I’m reluctant to get into the c...

Bodrum is in the newspapers on a daily basis and BBC radio is broadcasting from Bodrum Marina and yet BacktoBodrum is not posting.  I apolog...

When I'm in England I get very jealous of all the beautiful gardens I walk past. I am not a good gardener. I have neither the patience n...

Captain Ibrahim and friend As we left Captain Ibrahim's restaurant last week, the eponymous owner reminded us that he'd been bo...

I'm back in Bodrum. It's the first time I can say it as last year was the first time I'd been here - in Turgutreis. This ...

Respectable families who this time last year were probably spending their Sundays drinking tea with their nearest and dearest in local pa...

When we built our house in the early 1990s, we were adamant that we would do so without cutting down a single tree.  Even the small pine in...