Sunday, October 16, 2011

Leaving Cirali and going to Kalkan

After a great breakfast with 2 kinds of strangely delicious homemade orange marmalade and home-cured olives, we were about to leave Cirali we heard about the open air museum which turned out to be the city of Olympus and right down the beach. Amazing overgrown ruins, Mina demanded a picnic snack in the midst and K wandered around narrating iPhone documentaries to himself. We both agree that Cirali would be a good place to stay for a week or so. We decide to leave anyway mostly on the basis of the twenty odd mosquito bites that Mina got in the night.
We were supposed to go on a boat to a sunken city but it was very windy for a boat outing so we continued to drive the winding turning road beside the shockingly blue and sparkling water. Mina really dislikes car trips involving her little car chair. We are hoping she gets used to it and lives to forgive her heartless parents.
We arrived in kas where we planned on staying the night and had some Turkish ice cream and decided the town was 'too boring', k's words, and kept driving.
We drove to Kalkan which seems to be a town that gets a ton of English tourists and we are hoping it will be still enough tomorrow to take the boat trip, actually that's K hoping, I'm kind of whatever on the boat thing. We found a little restaurant with husband waiting tables and wife cooking and had a wonderful meal of hemsi, little fish from the black sea similar to sardines, and fresh salad. I didnt get photos as it was too delicious.

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