Being Turkish

For those of you who haven't yet worked out the pattern, 2013's Summer holiday was to Turkey.

The pattern wasn't intentional, but it happened - From 2010  with our Summer holidays we have been moving East one country at a time on alternating years. Starting in Portugal in 2010 we moved East to Spain in 2012, Starting in Greece in 2011 we moved East to Turkey in 2013. I don't mind that we now have to go to Italy later this year, but I'm not really looking forward to Syria next year, things are a bit tense at the moment... Might have some nice wild hamsters though.

Specifically our holiday took us to Alanya near Antalya and significantly...

This was the first time in 5 years that while in a different country I was sporting face furniture.

Apparently the most interesting thing I can ever think to tell the world is how hairy my face is at any particular time. There is at least one post in this blog pretty much dedicated to it - This one - We were on holiday, surely there is something else I could talk about?

Well there is, for example, there was a big long walk up a hill to find a castle. I just couldn't find it here, where the hell is it?
This walk was followed by a meal at the top overlooking the harbour and a similar (but reversed) walk taking us back down to the bottom.

I'm pretty sure hill walks have featured in this blog before as  well, but I'm not going to go find that one - Was moving on to activities really worth it? I bet you wish we were back on beards now don't you? But no, that's it, Beard time is over, you've ruined it now.

After we had already checked out on the last day  we were waiting outside the apartment building for a coach to arrive to take us back to the airport.

This cat walked over and joined us on our little couch, we had seen him (I will continue assuming the cat was male, so I don't have to refer to him/her as an it - I'm sure he/she won't mind) about while we were eating or swimming on previous days, but it was the first time he actually came and sat next to us. He may have been wild, but he could just have easily have belonged to a neighbouring house.

He was wary of me at first, but after I tickled him he decided that I not only wasn't a threat, but that I was a friend that he should curl up on and make himself comfortable.

He stayed there for quite a while, until we actually got up to leave - at which point he seemed quite put out. Hopefully he forgives me.

That's all of the holidays up to date now, future holidays will be added with the normal irregularity that they occur. The next one will be Bratislava, so if anyone can work out the pattern that goes:
Germany
Ireland
Lithuania
Slovakia

That would be very useful to help work out where we'll end up going next year.

There's also now a pins in a map page to go along with this blog which I'll continue to add to.