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September is zooming past and I haven't hit the 'publish' button for 8 days.  I should be telling you about road trip...

I like living by the village pond: while not a hub of activity, it is visited most mornings by a succession of villagers with their cows ...

Today is the second day of Kurban Bayram , Sacrifice Holiday; a busy time of year in Bodrum when city dwellers take their noisy, bustling...

Before I write about eating yogurt, I have to decide how to spell it.  Yogurt - yoghurt - yoghourt and even yojurt are all possibilities ...

I was expecting great things from the Second Vine Harvest Festival in Mumcular. This year's organisation had lots of support and for on...

I'd like to recommend this collection of 16 poems to anyone who has loved and left Bodrum, is still living on the Bodrum Peninsula o...

My first two years in Bodrum were spent sailing the Gulf of Gökova.  Thirty five years later, there is still no better place to be.  ...

   I haven't completely given in to sloth during these hot months, I am still paying twice weekly visits to The Pilates Studio in Ave...

Sunday could have been a very busy day. Mumcular, our nearest town, was hosting its first traditional Bull Wrestling Festival (just how t...

It's been hot, mind-meltingly hot.  The kind of heat that gives you wet patches on top of your shoulders where the sweat has drippe...