Turkey for the girls and
Turkey for the boys
My favorite kind of pants
Are corduroys
Gobble gobble goo and
Gobble gobble gickel
I wish turkey
Only cost a nickel
(Adam Sandler)
So Kirk has asked his employer if he can bank his holidays and he received a positive response. So this means that we will possibly be heading for Turkey and up to six glorious weeks of sailing in 2013! The only issue I can think of will be finding someone (or someone’s) to live in our condo for the period and look after the monsters.
At least that’s the current train of thought!
So, time to haul out the charts and the reviews and start planning when and where! If anyone has any suggestions from past visits, do tell!
Some starting information on the coast of Turkey from sailingissues.com …….
Sailing in Turkey means cruising along the many gulfs and bays of the much indented Turkish coastline. It is also a journey back in time, with a plethora of archaeological sites, castles and temples that reflect its importance in ancient and medieval times. Especially the south-west coast – roughly speaking the stretch of coastline from Izmir via Kusada?i, Bodrum, Marmaris, Fethiye and Ka? to Antalya – is an ideal cruising ground.
This stretch of Turkish coastline is usually divided into four different yacht charter areas:
- The Ionian Coast: Izmir – Kusadasi – Güllük – Bodrum, a coastline which claims the to have the best climate and which shores brought forth the rich culture of the Ionians and their great philosophers.
- The Carian Coast: Bodrum – Marmaris, the most popular sailing ground which includes the two largest yacht charter bases in Turkey: Bodrum and Marmaris.
- The west Lycian Coast: Marmaris – Fethiye, the pirate coast with its wild, mountainous shores and hundreds of hidden coves.
- The east Lycian Coast: Fethiye – Kas – Finike – Antalya, rock tombs and solid stone sarcophagi.
Turkey abounds with archaeological ruins dating from the dawn of civilization, inhabited by various Anatolian tribes, conquered, and occupied by Persians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Ottoman Turks, and finally establishing independence in the 1920’s under Ataturk. Besides the rock tombs and sarcophagi, most relics are of Greek and Roman origin. Many of the ruins are just part of the landscape, not fenced off.