Iyi Geceler

Christmas Day the weather cooperated beautifully. I took a morning walk to town for the post office, open here on Christmas as it’s only a holiday for visitors. At 2 pm I met up with about a dozen cruisers who walked the 3 miles to Joya Del Mar for the Christmas Dinner Gwen had organized for us. I was certainly glad I’d walked as there was soup, shrimp and avocado salad, spring roll, turkey with stuffing and then a huge chocolate dessert. I skipped the soup and had a few bits of Randal’s dessert and was still daha doldum. “much full!” Much fun!

Today we were ‘back to work’ on the boat though I did take a lovely early morning walk to beat the rain; which actually didn’t come until evening. And we took our first motorbike ride to the big Migros and the Import Shop looking for boxes of Fruit’N Fibre for Randal’s breakfast. It’s imported. At Migros it was 25 TL (divide by 2.25) and still a crazy amount for cereal. At the Import Shop it was 16 TL so we bought 2 boxes. We’d cleaned out the frig and cabinets before we’d left for the US so must stock up again. Hopefully the weather will again cooperate and we’ll motorbike to the Sunday Market for fruit and vegetables and whatever. Always fun. I’ll share few Christmas Lunch photos next. This email is my first visit this year to the Arts and Culture Center.

Ru

DoraMac

One of my favorite places in Marmaris is the Art and Culture Center.  I love to see the changing exhibits; and the coffee shop is full of people interested in the arts!  Not that I can speak with them, but you can feel their energy and interest, their aliveness.  (Our time in London cost me much of the Turkish I had learned.  Thankfully I still have Peter’s notes from our classes in North Cyprus so if I’m not too lazy I’ll get them out and study!)

Monday morning I walked to the Center for a quick visit as there’s too much boat stuff to be done to linger anywhere.  After three months away the whole boat needs a good scrub inside and out so for now that must be my main focus.  But as exercise is essential, I do take an hour a day for a walk.

There are two exhibits at the Center now: paintings and photographs.  I believe the paintings were all done by students and teachers in the classes offered at the Center.  The photographs were from a photo club.  Some of the subjects are universal and some are reflective of Turkey.