Holiday in Turkey – October 2007 (2)

We set off on the 19th October – my dad’s 80th birthday! The flight from Manchester to Dalaman in Turkey took 4 hours, so with a 2 hours time change (they are in front of us) and a relaxed flight time of 11.10am – we missed a complete day travelling. By the time we’d picked up our hire car and set off towards Fethiye it was pitch black.

We been warned about the driving in Turkey but in the dark, it seemed far worse than we’d expected. At one point we were trundling along at about 60mph when a car came up to the crossroads we were approaching (we were on the main arterial road) and just kept on going – straight across without braking or slowing down. By the time we got to our destination (Overcik - inbetween Fethiye and Oludeniz) we were tired and ready for bed (after a bit of food we’d picked up en route).

When the morning came we had a better view of our surroundings – which was beautiful. The top image shows the view from the back of the villa (my daughter’s family own it) – looking up towards what a taxi driver later told us was ‘mother mountain’. The image alongside gives the best daylight impression we snapped of the rear view (although the garden shownis the neighbour’s). Everyday, during the week an old woman would come along the back there, by the fence – with her goats. She would hang around long enough for them to feed off the trees and bushes and would then throw stones at them to move on!

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