Which way do we go?: Kizkalesi - Lazy Days in the Sun

About us

We are a couple of Californians, recently transplanted to Bellingham, Washington. We like our new hometown but we also love to travel. We think travel is important and we choose to live frugally so that we can travel as much as possible.

We are currently on a six month trip through Turkey, Italy, and Spain. We also sometimes travel with friends on chartered ships (Thane does massage for them). Of course, it is all subject to whim, so why don't you travel along with us and see where we go?

We like to travel slow and get to know local people and customs. We typically travel on a low budget. We believe that traveling this way enhances our experiences because it tends to keep us in closer contact with local people. This also allows us to travel for longer periods.

We agree with Rick Steve's who says that travel allows us to discover that "Certain truths that we consider to be 'God-given or 'self-evident' ... are suddenly not true" and that "One of the benefits of travel is the eye-opening realization that there are logical, civil, and even better alternatives."

We like seeing how other cultures approach life, family, politics, food, music, communication and the differences between the sexes.

We previously used this space to blog about an 8 week car trip across the USA in 2008. We've left those blog entries here because we enjoy looking at them still and think that you might too.

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Kizkalesi - Lazy Days in the Sun

Posted by Melissa

September 23 to September 28, 2010

After a busy week of sightseeing in Göreme, we headed to Kizkalesi on the southern coast of Turkey.

Our plans ? ? ? Lay around, get some sun, eat, sleep, repeat. We did a fine job of it starting with our room with a view of the castle and beach.

It was very easy to laze around here. Just about everything you could wish for is brought to you right on the beach. Here are two of the sarong sellers.

Then the simit seller strolls by with his wares balanced on his head.

The çai man and his son.

Ah, hot çai at the beach! There was also vendors selling hot ears of corn on the beach, and beer and icecream vendors on the boardwalk. Not a bad life at all!

A little swim for me (in my new bikini!)

and one for Thane too! The water was just cool enough to be refreshing and it was so shallow that we had to walk out about 300 feet to get up to our shoulders in the water.