Ocean and windmills in Bodrum • Folksy Travel by Bill Smale

what you can expect to see our ocean and windmills in Bodrum. It’s kind of a one Walking Street Ocean facing restaurant and shop tourist attraction. You can find many boats there at the port offering to take you on different kinds of excursions including scuba diving and eating entertainment. While I was not that excited with the city itself since it seems to be fairly limited to that one ocean facing street, there are some interesting attractions. There is an old castle which you might want to approach on foot since parking is a little limited, well actually very limited. I never did find a place to park so I didn’t go see the castle and it was a long way from the hotel. And then you have windmills. But the one interesting part of the area for me was the little fishing village of Gümüşlük. Below there’s some including a Google Maps location for a restaurant I was recommended to but found was closed when I got there. Be careful with Google maps trying to get there because it wants to take you on a direction that has no road for some reason. There seems to be a road on the south end but I parked up on the cliff and walked down. Don’t set your Google maps to this restaurant because it won’t take you down to the village. Enjoy these photos by Bill Smale Adventures.

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Typical Turkish breakfast — This was the breakfast and seems to be fairly typical in Turkey. There is an egg of some kind and maybe something else that’s hot and then there are little things in their natural form without any sauce.

Olive trees on the way to Bodrum — All the way to Borum you’ll see mostly olive trees. I saw some fellow harvesting the olives but did not stop to take a photo.

My hotel in Bodrum — This was my hotel. It’s a very relaxing place and would be very much fun in the summer

Various Asian food in Bodrum — OK, you tell me what this is. Indian food and Chinese food and Japanese food all in one complex with separate entrances. Most of Europe you just see one entrance to a single restaurant and it says “Asian cuisine”.

Calamari lunch — Down at the one street on the port I had some really fantastic calamari. As you can see it’s very typical to get olives served with almost every meal.

Bodrum dogs by the ocean — I made a couple friends on the way

A night snack — When I got back to the room I saw this by the bed and I thought some customer got into my room by mistake and left some half eaten cake. But when looking at it closely the fork was clean and the cake pieces were cleanly cut so it’s obvious this was a treat left by the hotel people. It tasted very good.

The Aegean sea — A view of the Aegean sea. What I found is interesting on Google maps is that the towns from Bodrum North are listed as on the Aegean sea. South of Bodrum they are listed as on the Mediterranean Sea.

A Citroen electric car — I was surprised to see these Citroen little electric cars which are kind of cute and very practical. This is the kind of car I think is perfect for electrification, around town driving.

Raki Is the national drink of turkey — This is the national alcohol of turkey. It is made from the aniseed and grapes. It seems to me to be the same as Uzo in Greece and Galliano in Italy. Several years ago the government put a gigantic tax on alcohol so this little bottle which is no bigger than a can of Coca-Cola it’s about $18.

City next to Bodrum — There’s a beautiful view of the next Ocean City

Wind — The blades are not here anymore since they are being used

Mysterious building — I saw a couple of these and I’m not sure what they are

This is the Bodrum Castle viewed from the windmill Hill

Sheep on the hills — This is where a lot of cheese comes from

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