Merhaba,

  So here are just some photos; no research needed so it was quick and painless.

Ru

More Bodrum Photos

From our room window: Women sitting, tatting, knitting and talking….enjoying the evening .

A cock-eyed photo from our window this morning….all of the motorbikes.

Self-portrait with camera.

I am wearing a dress/nightgown and flannel pants. I need the flannel for my sciatic leg and it really makes a difference as the AC really chills the room. You can see just how basic the room is with lots of hooks on the wall rather than closets or drawer space. But it’s just fine for our needs: a place to sleep that’s cool.

Roof top dining area with the wonderful view, but it’s really too hot to enjoy even by 4pm and we leave before they serve breakfast which starts at 8:30 am until 10:30 am. Most vacationers stay up late and get up late. We’re the odd ducks that get up early and go to sleep early.

Our routine is to get up and be on our way by 7 or 7:30 am so we can use the morning’s less hot temperatures for walking and working. Lunch is usually at the small restaurant at the yard. The food is very tasty and filling with huge portions for only 8TL. But I find it too heavy at lunch time so skipped it today and ate cucumber, tomato and cheese on the boat. Randal ate at the restaurant as he likes to get away from “work” for lunch. We usually leave the yard about 4ish. When we get to the Otel we dump our panniers and helmets and go up to get a cold drink. Then we rest in our air conditioned room until it’s time for dinner. We eat at a most uncivilized early time: usually before 7pm. Most people don’t eat until much later so they can eat on the beach after the sun has gone down. We eat inside with the air conditioning. They turn it on for us, now that we are regular customers. We’ve eaten in the same place twice and the same thing twice. Randal gets the grilled sea bass and I have a “big salad” with grilled chicken. The staff go out to the fish market and get the fish. We could get the fish ourselves and bring it to a restaurant, but we haven’t tried that yet. We’re usually back at the Otel by 8:15 and read for a while before going to sleep just as everyone is going out for dinner and the bars. Late at night, or maybe it’s very early morning I can hear the thrumming of drums from the bars, but it’s just background noise and not head-splitting noise.

Walking down to the beach from our Otel.

Ice cream time….these ladies are obviously enjoying their cones while the folks not eating ice cream seem decidedly less happy.

The restaurant where we eat, which is also a hotel.

While we eat they change their patio seating to beach seating for later in the evening.

My grilled chicken salad and Randal’s grilled fish: too many bones for me to want to mess with and I just really want the “big salad.” Quite tasty.

Lots of colorful seating along the beach: hopefully it fills up at night.

This was the most creative.

But these made me smile.

Bars are also a fixture along the beach.

I wish I had the courage to buy some of these muscles, but one bad piece of shell fish and your doomed to hours in the loo.

The sun blotted out all of the color but shows the shape of the Bodrum Castle which is now a museum and which we still have yet to visit.

 

Docks chock a-block with boats waiting for passengers.

I couldn’t resist this photo…..we miss our bikes but the motorbike is so much more useful, especially in the heat.

The road where I take my morning walk.

This is the top of the hill; then the road goes down to the coast and another boat yard. Maybe I’ll go further on day. If Sharman were here were here we’d walk for hours in the hills as there are paths. But the road does for me by myself.