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  Today Spring arrived but it may go away again come Monday.  I’ve started doing some spring cleaning and it’s a pain but it’s nice to have the boat cleaner.  It certainly does accumulate dust for being out on the water…

  Monday our friends Rob and Julia drove us to Nicosia for a visa run.   We ate at a really neat restaurant, did some shopping, got the visa, did more shopping, ate dinner and came home.  That’s the short story.  The long…

Howling Winds!!!
It’s 5 pm and the only thing left for the weather to do today is hail! We’ve had rain, sun, wind that makes you work to walk through it; and since noon we’ve had winds registering at 45 knots! Just now the winds are a bit more qu…

Last Sunday we went to visit the small village of Büyükkonuk. I hope to write about that soon. This email is about yesterday.
Ru
Çarşamba Sabah Şubat 8, 2012
(Wednesday Morning February 8, 2012)
Yesterday Sharman, Sophie and I set off from the m…

Randal has been working days on end rewiring and moving wires in the saloon ceiling to make way for the stove pipe for our diesel heating stove.  It isn’t a cooking stove; just one that can heat the boat more efficiently than the reverse AC heat…

Today is sunny but blustery.  Blustery means there is a medium wind.  Two days ago there was a howling wind which we’d had for days so blustery is ok.  I have two loads of laundry blow-drying in the sun and wind.  Later I&#821…

   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…

   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…

  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…

  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…