Fethiye Times

The Fethiye Times provides community news and Information for South West Turkey, including Hisaronu, Ovacik and Olu Deniz. It provides news and details of events, along with local weather information.

Articles deal with a wide range of subjects of interest to both Tourist and ex patriots who have made the region their home. Recent issues covered include, work permits and property purchase.

Link to Fethiye Times.com

 

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Holidays to Hisaronu

We still have a few dates available in 2007 for our apartment to rent in Hisaronu.

The apartment is set in an ideal location at the East end of the village under the shade of the pines of the Kaya forest. Set in a small development of 12 apartments with a central pool, the apartment benefits from a large dining balcony with views over Hisaronu and the Kaya forest.

More information can be found here

Rentals are available from as little as £200 per week and we can arrange return door to door transfer in a modern air conditioned spacious "people carrier" for a family of four for only £60.00 for both ways.

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It's been a while

Unfortunately, we have not been to the apartment since we took Mom at the end of May. Family weddings, earning a living, and bookings conspired to keep us away.

Our trip out at the end of May was nice, particularly since Mom joined us, and although she finds it difficult to get around now we had a lovely time.

New joys discovered included sunset cocktails on Olu Deniz beach, and the Moonlight Restaurant, which we cannot recomend too highly. Caught up with old friends and made some new ones, including Mert, a young Turkish guy who is opening a rather special new bar next year called Serendipity ( more about that in the future).

Our abscence has given the opportunity for new guests and friends to enjoy the apartment, and resulted in one proposal of marriage and three immediate repeat bookings for next year.

Next year's bookings are filling up fast, but we still have some vacancies outside of the main weeks, so please send any enquiries to Ellen if our little home from home appeals to you. I have expanded the website a little and put some more photos up here.

I am now looking for the best value flights for the end of October, so if anyone out there has any good contacts, please let me know.

Oh and for info. We can arrange transfers to and from Dalaman , prepaid from UK.

 

 

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No Turkey for me this Summer

It's been a while since I have posted and unfortunately a while since I have been to Hisaronu!. Our plans to go in early August were scuppered by a family wedding. Because bookings have been good, the apartment is full through until the end of September. Whilst this is beneficial in helping to pay the bills, it means we cant go until October (half term), just as the place is closing and the weather cooling. On the plus side, it's the last week opening for most of the shops, so there may be a bargain or two.

Well it appears the new airport at Dalaman is finally open, although that does not seem to have resulted in any of the UK charter flights extending their season. I also heard that the tunnel on the route from Dalaman has opened which will hopefully reduce the transfer time to around forty minutes and cut out some of those scary hairpin bends.

Oh two of our guests got engaged whilst out at the apartment, so congratulations to Russel and Jade, you are welcome back for the honeymoon and I will leave a bottle of bubbly for you!

Hi, to Lee who is there this week (his first trip to Turkey), probably still at Time Out as I am writing this.

Only a two weeks rental available now this season, second and third weeks of October. If anyone needs that last "charge" of sun before the British winter (what happened to summer?), check here, the mail link is at the bottom of the page.

Kayaköy

A short journey from Hisaronu through the Kaya Forest leads to Kayaköy. We visited Kaya on our first trip to Turkey in the company of three students we met from Istanbul University. Kaya is a magical place, although with a starngely eerie atmosphere, induced by the largely abandoned village.

Kayaköy is a village of Fethiye in Turkey where Anatolian Greeks lived until the population exchange agreement signed by Turkish and Greek governments after the Independence War of Turkey. The former Greek village of Kayaköy makes a striking impression on visitors, with its stone houses and churches, narrow streets, and spectacular setting. So beautiful is the Kaya Valley, so rich the soil, so tranquil the air and so slow the pace of traditional rural life that is hard to believe that bustling Fethiye and famous Olu Deniz beach are only a short drive away. The dreamlike beauty of Kaya Valley is magnified by the evocative ruins of the abandoned Greek village of the same name.


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Back to Hisaronu

Breakfast out of the way; it was back to the apartment and a day relaxing by the pool. We did not wander in to town until the evening. The apartment is situated at the Kaya end of Hisaronu, just on the edge of Kaya forest, and although the nearest bars and restaurants are only about 300 meters away, it’s a quiet spot, only 5 minutes walk yet out far enough not to be disturbed by the livelier parts of town.

A gin and tonic combines well with watching the sunset over the mountains, then a short stroll to dinner.

We had noticed during our last visit that a new bar was being built about 100 metres away, and we were pleased to find that it is quiet spot to sit without music or TV. It was a quiet dinner and back to the apartment with a bottle of wine.

A number of new restaurants had opened for the new season and a few bars had been re-furbished. Overall the town is looking a little brighter and particularly on the East side a bit smarter.

It was noticeable that the town was a little quieter than spring last year, it seems that the brief scare reports of “bird flu” in Turkey last year, and the World Cup starting in Germany has impacted upon bookings.

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Breakfast in Hisaronu

It was a cold, wet, grey bank holiday Monday when we made our way slowly down the M6 to Birmingham airport. The “check in queue snaked around the departure lounge without any pattern, or apparent organisation, but eventually we got our boarding passes after a ten minute interview about our luggage by the desk clerk. It seemed out of some twenty manned “check in” desks 99% of departing passengers were corralled toward two. I am no logistical genius, but I reckon I could have speeded things up tenfold, and saved a few “frayed tempers”, but that would have looked too easy.

We were flying with Thompson, and apart from the fact the flight was completely full (an earlier cancelled one had been merged with ours), and that two cabin crew had not “turned up” for work, the staff did their best and the flight was OK.

We arrived on time at Dalaman (1 am local) and our driver was waiting, it was a pleasant 20 degrees and we were quickly on our way. The tunnel that is being built to shorten the journey from Dalaman to the south is still not completed, although the road repairs between Fethiye and Hisaronu had been completed, so one hour later, we were at the apartment.

Although there were still a few bars open, we were all tired and went straight to bed. The next morning whilst Mom and Ellen slept in, I was up and about and within an hour of waking in search of an “English breakfast”. Now I should say this stage that I do not eat English food when travelling or on holiday, with the exception of breakfast. England has little to offer to the world at large in the way of “home grown” gastronomic excellence, but when I am on holiday I allow myself a treat or two. You can keep your “cold meat and fruit”, and shove your croissants, start the day with eggs, bacon, mushroom (mix with beans, tomatoes, fried slice etc.) to personal taste and you are set up for the day.

As we were only there for seven days I did not have the opportunity to try every breakfast on offer, but a firm favourite emerged. The London bar (attached to the London Hotel) served good “fry up” for under £3.50, complete with tea, toast and a smile from “Rose” the lovely waitress.

This is the sort up to date information that you will not get in other guides! And I am tired now, so more about the holiday tomorrow.