I visited the Osmanlı Sultan Çarık Shoe Shop on a couple of occasions previously and on the second visit I bought a pair of the Ottoman Shoes. The shoes are made from all natural ingredients and first pair I bought were green with the dye being made from Olives. I loved the shoes and have worn them out [...]
A couple of months ago I hosted a Halloween Party in Shakers pub on behalf of the Expats Social Group. A few weeks later I was in Art Cafe and some guys came up to me and said they saw my photos from that evening and asked if I would like to go to an [...]
So Antalya is advertised as having 300 days sunshine a year and indeed that may be a fairly accurate figure but what they don’t advertise is that when it rains, it totally chucks it down. The drainage system isn’t that great, so after a few housr torrential rain, flooded streets are commonplace. However, last week [...]
In Liman Mahellesi every Tuesday there is a large fruit and veg market held in a large covered area set aside for exactly that purpose. However, every Saturday for the past two months there have been a group of ladies who have been setting up stalls there to sell their homemade food, clothing, jewellery and [...]
While I was waiting to meet some friends in Kaleiçi I decided to pop along for a chat with Münir, the owner of Mr Blues Bar where I host an open mic night every fortnight. However, I forgot that he doesn’t open on Sunday nights but all was not lost as I noticed a band [...]
Back in the UK almost every bar you go into will have a Pool table but here in Antalya that is not the case, so as I hadn’t played in a while, I decided to organise a Pool competition. The first problem was that most of my Turkish friends on facebook thought I was organizing a [...]
The great thing about having transportation is being able to go off the beaten track, so one Sunday afternoon I asked Ellen if she fancied going for a ride on my motorbike for a picnic beside a river. To get there, you take the road out of Konyaalti heading towards Kemer and at the first [...]
My friend Serife is going away to work in Malaysia and was having a going away night out starting off at Macha Bar in Kaleici. However, I couldn’t get there in time for the start of the evening and by the time they had arrived I had missed them. As I never had her phone number I [...]
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