In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we check out the beautiful Ciftlik & Fethiye a slice of Turkish delight. Ciftlik is a well protected bay with beautiful mo...

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Give him a chilli! No don't you dare. Ah that's cruel, that might really upset its stomach. He's going to s@#$ like a horse now isn't he

Good morning it's about 10 a.m. on

Monday the 15th of October and we've

just left Bozukkale and we're on

our way to Ciftlik and I think

that's about a three-hour journey. 3 hours Baz?

About 3 hours, yep. So again we've got calm

seas hardly any wind, motoring but it's

just so nice out here it's lovely. Bozukkale was an absolutely beautiful

spot so if you are visiting Turkey

whether you're sailing or whether you're

just on a holiday do go visit there it's

absolutely beautiful

So we'll talk to you when we get to

Ciftlik

So there are several restaurants here at

chick flick or chiflick (Citflik) and each

restaurant has its own little jetty and

pontoon where you can tie up so when

they see a boat come in the guy runs out

of his restaurant grabs the flag - this

one's got a green flag, that one's got a

orange flag and so on and so on so - he

grabs his flag and he waves it like this

- come over here come over here - so

they're flagging for business basically.

We are coming to this particular jetty

and this particular restaurant because

this is where Mike comes all the time so

if you are coming on your own and you

see all these flags waving it doesn't

mean anything apart from hey hey hey you

can come and park here and come and you

know use our restaurant to buy beer or

food or whatever. Just choose whichever

one you fancy really whichever one takes

you fancy. But I'm gonna have a nice

beer. Aannsha's happy that we're on like

a little beach here because she can

actually wade in and still keep her

broken wrist dry

We left Ciftlik this morning around

that nine o'clock, it's now just after

four o'clock in the afternoon and here

we are in Fethiye. Our buddy boat has one

month left on their annual contract with

a marina chain and so over at

the other side of the bay in Gocek

they're allowed to have some free time

in the marina there as part of their

deal with the the marina chain so

they've decided they're going there for

the marina. Now obviously marina prices

are not in our budget so we decided to

come to Fetiye and they'll be joining us

here in a couple of days but here in

Fethiye we'll be able to get hold of a

sim card and pile it up with as much

data as we can so that we can have our

own connection to the Internet. It'll

also allow us to find the so called

phone hospital here that we can have the

screens repaired on Aannsha's Samsung

and the little spare Samsung that Aannsha

also managed to break the screen on so

that's got to be done and what else? Oh of

course it'll also give us a couple of

days to just sit here and work getting

the next video out for you guys so we

bought ourselves a little bit of extra

time by coming here rather than going to

Gocek. It's a nice place it really is

pretty to look at, it's very big and this

is a nice protected little bay here, the

holdings good, we're in ten meters of

water so we've got 40 odd metres of

chain out but the holding is really good

and of course in Mantus we trust.

All right time to put the boat to bed

and crack open a beer ... All hatches and sea cocks are open captain.

Thank you No.1

It's our first morning here in Fethiye and one of

the reasons we decided to come here was

to allow us some time to be able to get

a data SIM card and also have both

phones repaired so we've got up fairly

early this morning, it takes time to get

things together and one of the things of

course we had to do with just Aannsha and

I on board was get the dinghy off the

davits

and into the water. We've managed to do that

it's down there look, we managed to do

that because that was the easy bit. The

hard bit will be getting it back up but we

have a plan B for that and the plan B

includes sheet-bending two lines

together and bringing them to one of the

big winches so we can actually winch

winch it back up onto the davits with Aannsha only having the use of one hand at

the moment, so on this beautiful calm

morning in Fethiye we're about to go and

explore and find out where we can park

and find out where all these things are

that we need in Turkey. Every day is an

adventure

There's also some sort of

regatta going on so a lot of these

regatta event boats came in yesterday

and they're all off again this morning.

Right, do you want to pass those bags up?

So this is our first day off the boat in

Fethiye in Turkey and we're doing a bit of

sightseeing because somebody said

there's an old town and we're also on a

mission to an electronic store to buy a

Samsung tablet - yep - for navigation

purposes. Not too sure how far it is - looked

fairly close on Google Maps. I guess

we'll find out when we get there. Yeah

Do you think the trees enjoy being

painted white. I don't know maybe, maybe maybe it

feels a bit glam. A bit glam, a bit of zhuzh? Yeah. Oh something I've found out about

Turkey is that it is a law that animals

are protected, so people look after the

animals here. The street animals look way

healthier than they do in the rest of

Europe. Yeah that's true. And you've got

to trust people that take care of

animals don't you? Yeah well so far

everything it took so far everything in

Turkey has been very welcoming

It has, it's been great. Yeah

I'm not sure

who this guy is but that's actually a

life-size statue of him sitting on a

horse and if I recall correctly

depending on whether the horse is on two

legs or four legs indicates whether he

died in battle or didn't die in battle

I'll have to look it up on Google but

the horse having two legs raised from

the ground indicates something in

particular. I wish I could remember all

this useless information that I've picked

up over the years. Anyway let's take a

look at some more of Fethiye town

I wanted to try some real Turkish made

Turkish Delight and this shop was so

tempting we went in. I chose a variety of

flavors from pistachio to cranberry and

chili chocolate and personal favorites

lemon and rose. Yum. After that we

explored more of the old town called

Pasaptur. There we found the

ancient duck pond located in Fethiye

bazaara

And who did we meet there? Phil and Linda!

So tonight we are coming ashore to a

place called Yacht Classic and we're

moored just a hundred metres away from

here well, maybe closer to 200 metres

away from here but Mike and Linda and

Phil on Mira II, are parked right here

What are you having? What, to drink? Yes.

Gin and tonic. God help us. It'll be interesting getting back on that boat.

Here's a short tour of Yacht Classic

showing some of its 5-star features

And we ate a gourmet dinner at a waterside table ...

Yum

And the people next door to us got real

fireworks on their birthday cake

Workplace Health and Safety? No!

Reviewing this footage was when we first

learned that we had a major issue with

the audio on our Sony camera but in a

nutshell what we're saying here is it's

7:00 a.m. on Sunday the 21st of October

we're wishing our son Luke a happy

birthday back in Brisbane Australia and

explaining that we've got a seven-hour

journey ahead of us as we head towards

what is our ultimate destination of Kaş

in Turkey and that's the place where

we're going to start making plans for

our journey back across the

Mediterranean Sea

There's a gorgeous smell coming from

down below in the galley, Aannsha is

cooking a bacon and egg sandwich for

breakfast and I'm savouring the smell

because it could be a while before we

have bacon again. It's not that you can't

get bacon in Turkey, you can, there's

several shops in Fethiye where we've just

left that are specialists in bacon. It's

just it's so expensive ridiculously

expensive. But

we're going to savour this breakfast

How's it going down there? It's going pretty good! Is that the last of the bacon? That's the last of the bacon!

Uh oh! But we're going to enjoy it. Yes

Eggs and bacon on the go

Life on the road. It's so much fun especially

when you're wearing slippers

Join us next week on Sailing A B Sea as we drop anchor in the bay

next to Kaş marina and start hooking

into some of the jobs on our big to-do list

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