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Missy Bear is now laid up in Lakki for the summer, and her crew has arrived back in Italy, via two car-ferries. Ancona was full up when we docked, due to a music festival. So, we drove west into the foothills of the Apennines, and found a farmhouse with modern rooms, near the little hilltop town of Santa Maria Nuova. Our charming host – the farmer’s wife - spoke no English, and we speak no Italian. I conversed a bit in French, otherwise we used our iPhones to translate. It wa

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Fethiye Fish Market - almost empty at lunch time If you went to a supermarket in Turkey in 2014, you might have paid 10 Turkish Lira (TRY) for a decent bottle of white wine. That was the equivalent of €3.50, for a European tourist. Just over 10 years later, that same bottle of wine would cost you 600 TRY, or about €13.50. For a European tourist, that is inflation of about 4-times over that period. Which is bad enough, but pity the poor local Turkish wine-lover, who now has to

We’ve seen how tectonic activity around this part of Anatolia has razed entire ancient towns to rubble, and sunk ancient ports into the sea. Another geographic feature, that often leads to topographical change - dramatically affecting humans and other life - is the rivers, along with associated spits and estuaries. We can all probably think of numerous examples of towns in England or France named “ Some-place-on-Sea ”, or “ Quelque-chose-sur-Mer ”, that are now miles-inland f

I was a little sad to leave the ‘Yacht Classic’ hotel pontoon in Fethiye, but we were soon sailing across to the other side of the large bay, to the Gocek side, and to our overnight anchorage in the marine park. Our home for a few days R&R We decided to swing on the hook in Round Bay, one of the few places in the entire Bay of Gocek that is shallow enough to allow you to anchor without taking a line ashore. We had been here on a day sail with Richard’s sister, Rachael, and he