Days before we say goodbye to our great sailing companions, Pippa and Richard, this is as far as we got together.
A year without a haircut, time to smarten up a bit – this is a ‘Turkish wax’ using a flaming bud!
Another fabulous market to provision on Saturday morning – so cheap, so good!
Our other new east Med friends, Susan and Eric invited us for dinner aboard their gorgeous 65’ Lola K.
On the 7th May, we celebrated Richard’s 70th birthday – not bad for 70, eh?!
Richard and we both got the spinnakers up as we sailed past mount Olympos
The big birthday Celebration continued aboard Matelot.
once we finally got to Antalya (our turnaround point in Turkey) we went out for a fabulous meal in the old city...
... near Hadrian’s gate (built for the Emporer's visit to this far flung Eastern wing of the Roman Empire; no doubt preferable to Britain!)
The Antalya museum is superb and full of brilliant ancient carvings the like of which we’d not seen before.
It seems the Greeks and Romans adopted and embellished the Lycian taste for fancy tombs – the husband and wife occupants depicted reclining on top; bit weird, really.
Superb details.
A free sample of a rather odd, chewy ice-cream.
Our very good friends, Jonathan and Jan from back home came on board for a week – we had such a great time together, with lots of laughs...
... including the pennant swap joke !!! (Sorry Pippa and Richard). After 2 months, we sadly said goodbye to P&R and Matelot as they sailed east and we west.
With soaring temperatures we visited ancient Phaselis with J&J...
.. then anchored at the very ancient city of Olympos, with a long and chequered history, where we explored fascinating remains.
Including this (plundered) tomb of a pirate captain with the poignant inscription “The ship is anchored at its last harbour, never more to depart, for no aid is now forthcoming from either wind or sunlight; Captain Eudemos, taking leave of the light bearing dawn, was buried there and his ship with its lifespan as short as day, like a broken wave”
There is a huge and intriguing Necropolis (ancient graveyard) scattered like an Indiana Jones set through the undergrowth.
No hire-car trip here is complete without taking the breathtaking Swiss cable car trip up to the top of Mt. Olympos
At 2300m there’s still plenty y of snow ...
We look south west to the tiny spec of Deep Blue at anchor and the destinations beyond for our week together.
But first, a most unusual fresh trout lunch in the foothills ... in basically a tree house!
We finished off Olympus with anther climb up to the famous ‘Chimera’ – where the Olympic eternal flame all started from. (We took a large bottle of wine at dusk).
... where we sadly say goodbye to both Jan and Jonathan, and to Turkey. We’ll be back!!
Next Cyprus and EGYPT!!!
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