A very Turkish experience
In the UK I’m a full time writer, researcher and editor
and work from home in Devon. Whenever I’m away from base
I suppose I’m always still ‘working’ or at least
keeping eyes and ears open for potential material to write about.
These notes and photos were compiled during a two week visit
to the Anatolian region of Turkey in April 2006. To be precise
I used the internet to book flights, transfers and accommodation
in a pension on the edge of the village of Patara on the Mediterranean
coast (real name Gelemis, nearest airport, Dalaman, just over
an hour and a half distant).
 I’ve
left my jottings pretty much as I wrote them in diary format –
they reflect my emotions and thoughts just as much as they retell
the tales of some of the people I met and places I visited. In
particular, I wanted to capture something of the underlying issues,
attitudes and at times strong reactions of the Turkish (and Kurdish)
people I spent time amongst. And, as you’ll find out from
the entries, I ended up getting involved in some rather untypical
vacation activities!
It was a strange trip insofar as I was visiting Patara out of
season. I hadn’t realised just how ‘out of season’
until I actually arrived.
Read on…
It’s divided into four separate pdf files which include
six diary entries:
 Turkey
- 1 (pdf 953 KB)
Turkey
- 2 (pdf 883 KB)
Turkey
- 3 (pdf 437 KB)
Turkey
- 4 (pdf 672 KB)
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