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Readers Album - Surprising Fethiye - Fethiye Times

Written for Fethiye Times and with photos by Mike Vickers Feature photo above: If you can get up early enough, this is what Fethiye harbour looks like at dawn. The sea that July morning was the calmest I’ve ever seen. Come on, let’s cheer ourselves up! Forget about the pandemic with all its restrictions, put on hold cracking open that first-of-the-day post-breakfast early-morning bottle of red and let’s spend a little time reminding ourselves of the simple pleasure of living in and around Fethiye. This very beautiful seaside town charms both visitors and residents alike, but there are also hidden depths to Fethiye. If you scratch the surface, step away from the main roads, plunge off-piste (a phrase that always makes me chuckle, and yes, Miranda Hart is right, ‘plunge’ is one of the greatest words in the English language) and spend a little time exploring the hidden nooks – but not the crannies – you’ll soon discover there’s a lot more to Fethiye than ju

Readers Album - If It Moves - Fethiye Times

Written for Fethiye Times and with photos by Mike Vickers Feature photo above: Cinderella’s carriage undergoing repairs in Ortaca. All together now: ‘Three wheels on my wagon, And I’m still rolling along…’ After browsing through my photo library again I very quickly came to the inevitable conclusion that the subject of Turkish transportation is so enormously varied, encompassing brilliant ingenuity, surprise, delight and amusement, that it cannot be restricted to just the one Readers’ Album which was published on Fethiye Times back in early December last year. So, here are some more photos of the weird and wonderful, mostly taken before the pandemic. The things you can see when out on the roads are sometimes quite simply astonishing, like the time years ago when I was driving up near Seki and encountered an entire wedding party coming the other way, all riding on a long convoy of decorated flatbed trailers towed by tractors. At the head was the bride and groom, sat

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