Wednesday, 11 September

Back to Sequel

Had a good journey to Gatwick, hoping to enjoy lunch at the airport and a bit of shopping before flight to Dalaman, only to spend a very stressful hour and a quarter dropping our luggage and getting through security. The queues were endless and one official told us it was due to too many people going on holiday now the schools are back.  All the desks were manned, he said. Huh! When we finally managed to shuffle our way close enough only three of the six security stations were in use. And to add insult we both had to have our hand luggage checked again; Bruce's because he had a tool for tightening cable ties (as you do) which looks a little like a gun - so understandable perhaps - and amazingly they didn't  confiscate it.

Flight was like any other EasyJet flight and actually arrived on time, followed by a hair-raising taxi drive back to Marmaris. Every time we do this journey I wonder if we are going to survive it - cant help thinking we are pushing our luck each time and that the next one is going to be the final one.  I find it hard to understand why any one is frightened of flying after being driven by a Turkish taxi driver.

Thursday 12

After a very warm night we had a call at 9 a.m. (7 UK time) to say we needed to get to the Cruise Port to see a customs official  regarding the new roof for Sequel  which had arrived over the summer from the Netherlands.  It was quite a struggle to get cracking and get to the bus before he left at 11 a.m. but we made it and then a walk into Marmaris to sort out our telecommunications for the next four weeks.

I had to succumb to a little zzzzzz this afternoon to recover from all the excitement of the last day and now looking forward to our first dinner out. My son will tell you that I don't sleep during the day.

Saturday 14

We had a vague plan to leave today for Goçek but at about 6 p.m last night having pumped up  the dinghy, struggled to get the outboard out of the locker on board and ashore on to the back of it, very sweaty and probably a little smelly, we had an email from our friends Mustafa and Sevgi (with whom we stayed in 2006 on a week's holiday in a villa in the mountains above Turunç) suggesting we got the water taxi from Marmaris to Turunc - an hour away by boat - for  a bbq and to stay the night.  So off we went - very adventuresome - now paying the price as usual as the wind has begun to blow and we think we will at the very least be here until Monday, probably Tuesday.  

Sunday 15

We  caught the dolmus into Marmaris to visit the Sunday fruit and vegetable market and then proceeded to walk around in circles trying to remember the instructions we had been given yesterday - we found it eventually and were rewarded with a fantastic array of fruit and vegetables at ridiculous prices.

Decided this afternoon that it was time to stop skulking behind the sun shade and top up our supplies of vitamin D.  The temperature has dropped today by about 4 degrees - now 5.30 p.m. and 30 degrees.  Forecast is still strong winds for Monday but hoping to move to Goçek on Tuesday before we loose the will to go anywhere.  But the Captain is working on his LEDs again - and has now changed about 60 light fittings - while I have been fighting a loosing battle with uploading photos with Google+ - hence no photos and because Apple 

(the evil  empire according to the Captain - or one of them anyway) doesn't allow me to upload from my ipad to an account which has nothing to do with Apple - what I need is a device that will properly let me use IoS and  android together - cant finish this properly  as frigging ipad wont let me or google not sure which = do they both know what I am doing?????