When we set off with Heidi for Karaman, Randal and I knew nothing about the place. We visited on a damp, chilly, gray January day, but with Heidi as our guide Randal and I really enjoyed our walk around the hill town. I’ve included links…
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Heidi and Randal cook
We definitely ate very well during our visit with Heidi and Kalle. And this only tells the story of dinners. We ate homemade bread, home grown and homemade grapefruit marmalade, cheese, thinly sliced cold meats, lots of tea and…
Inside Villa Manzara
Heidi and Kalle have named their home Villa Manzara, which in Turkish means view, landscape or panorama: and they certainly have beautiful views. There is so much that is so very interesting about Heidi and Kalle so I hope that you visit h…
A visit to Heidi and Kalle Trautmann part 1
I have just finished part 1 about our visit to Heidi and Kalle Trautmann. It has been raining since very early morning and the sun is just now trying to make an appearance. I will try to get some walking in to work off the huge plate…
Nice, but too short a visit
Two weeks with Mom and Dad went by in a flash. Yesterday we said goodbye at the airport as they flew off to a cold, wet and foggy Hamburg, Germany. Yes, Florida with a temperature of 79F was a nice vacation for them. They got to experience a trip wi…
A new calf and new friends
Randal and I spent this weekend visiting Heidi and Kalle Trautmann at their beautiful home near Girne. We had a wonderful time! We arrived late Saturday morning and left early Monday morning and I took almost 300 photos over the two …
Life At The Dock
So, what’s been happening on the good ship DavidEllis? Things are falling apart; that’s what’s happening! Right before Christmas the isolation transformer (where the electrical shorepower enters the boat) shorted itself and a week later the inverter-…
A Four Hour Walk with Sharman and Sophie
I’m writing this email while Randal is in the galley cooking up a spaghetti dinner using some of the ground meat from the butcher. I’m not really a spaghetti person, but this evening I’m starving from the 4 hour walk in the hills this morning I d…
VIP's visits!!
Last week my parents arrived for a visit onboard Diesel Duck in Ft. Lauderdale. Mom, 84 years young and Dad, 87 are enthusiastic company we try to keep up with. On an excursion on the Jungle Queen, Mom took to the wheel on the upper deck, but to actu…
Hello
Our friends Julia and Rob are off to Thailand for some sun and tropical warm weather and they have kindly loaned us their car. Today we made good use of it driving to Lefkosa/Nicosia to the Turkish Embassy to clear up the motorbike mess cr…
