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Turkish Night Belly Dancer

Merhaba
    Turkish Night  Part 2   Belly Dancer and Irina
The belly dancer performed and then chose folks to compete in a belly dancing contest.  Our Irina took part and won the hearts of the audience. 
Ru

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Soḡanli Part 2

Merhaba,
   We’re off to Ankara Saturday so I really need to finish writing up our trip to Cappadocia.  Here is part 2 of our visit to Soḡanli,
Ru
Soḡanli Part 2

We crossed the Soḡanli River and hiked to the Church with the …

Time for lunch on the mystery tour

Merhaba,
This is the final email of our mystery day.  Notice there hasn’t been much food so far?  Now it’s time for food.
Ru
Yediburunlar Lighthouse   http://www.yediburunlarlighthouse.com/
Our final stop of the day was for lunc…

Soğanlı Valley

Merhaba,
    This is part one of our visit to Soğanlı Valley.  I’ve read blogs offering different explanations for the meaning of Soğanlı.  One says it mean onions (it does) which was then supposed to have caused a sultan…

Birthday Celebrations, ancient ruins, and new art exhibit

Merhaba,
Last Night and This Morning …….
Monday Night
Last night was the April 1st “finger foods pot luck” at Sailor’s Point.  We were there to welcome newcomers arriving for the sailing season, say good-bye to folks leaving for the sail…

Breaking News

Hong Kong SAR, 1 April 2013 (Continued…)

Easter Barbeque

Merhaba,
Time out from the Cappadocia trip to share photos from yesterday afternoon’s Easter Barbeque.  And to say GO SOX!!!!!! It is the first day of Baseball Season.  In all of Turkey I might be the only one who cares.  At the barbeque yesterday…

Operations tank view of the Shearwater crew

yes we do look like we’re losing it… (View Post…)

Better…

Hours and effort later a clean tank. (View Post…)

Yuk!

Lid off tank #1 — operations (“day tank”) showing algae sludge on floor of the tank. Also shown is the sump at bottom of the tank and algae colonies can be seen growing on the surface of fuel there.  (View Post…)