big turk

turkey was hot. and sunny. and friendly. we had a great time. gerry read 5 books in the week, and i read 4, and O magazine. :o) we both got tanned, but mine's definitely the better of the two. gerry is a shade or so darker, but he spent most of his time under umbrellas while i was basking in the much missed golden rays of that thing called the sun.

we went to the greek island of Kos/Cos one day and had great greek food, and a very very shelly beach which hurt my feet. there were so many dutch people there, it was crazy. and day-amn, it was hawt.

we did a bunch of excursions while we were in turkey. one day we were out on a dive boat which was great... probably our favourite day of the vacation. everything was taken care of, equipment and lunch. we went for two dives. one was to bubble cave which was so cool-first we went in the cave to see what it's like inside, and then we went above it and saw all of these bubbles coming out. and then we went for a dive around a cove, and there were heaps of fish, a few of which can be seen in our pic below.

we went to a covered market one day and sweat like f'ing crazy and had a little tour of the city. monday night we did a moonlit cruise that i hated. it was supposed to be romantic and nice, and it sort of was, except for the blasting of music. it was cool to be on the boat and watch shooting stars, and it would have been way better, without the music.

there was lots of shopping going on. it's really geared to tourists, but we didn't really want a challenging holiday. i think i was so desperate for sun, i would have gone anywhere. it was nice that turkey was somewhere i had interest in going, and it was a direct flight from cork.

on saturday i was feeling sick. when we were waiting for the plane on sunday i was feeling hellish and dry heaving in the toilet. finally i barfed a bit, but since it was so early, i only had some M&Ms to barf. the rice cakes didn't come up. i was feeling sick until thursday, but now i feel 100% better. and am really happy about our trip.

at the end of august we're going to be meeting louis, katie and sarah in prague (in less than two weeks, sarah will be here for a visit). and we're looking for weekends to scotland and spain and a christmas market in winter. i don't have many days off left, so we'll see how that goes but that will bring us to the end of the year, i'd say. and then, hopefully, we'll be off to thailand and australia and then home. but those details haven't been worked out yet... it sure helps time go by when you're looking forward to something!