The much awaited Çalış Carnival - Fethiye’s first real carnival is now less than two weeks away!

The carnival is a week-long event starting with a Beach BBQ at the Koca Calis Surf Cafe on Saturday 31st May. The Beach BBQ will consist of juicy steaks, chichen and kofte with some fantastic salads and fruit dishes.

The SurfCafe will be hosting this relaxing and fun night out on the beach. we’ll be provided with disco dancing mixed with the sounds of the waves gently lapping around the edges of the bay. I think it going to be a great night out!

The Surf Cafe which usually provides wind surf and kite surfing tuition is located on the northern edge of calis … but no need to worry about transport as SurfCafe will be providing a free shuttle bus service every 30 minutes between the Metal Bridge ( water taxi office ) and their establisment in Koca calis.
The shuttle service starts at 7.00pm.

The cost of the Beach BBQ meal is just 15 YTL and a proportion will be donated to the carnival charities. For tickets and information please ring: 0533 855 49 19

Happy partying!

It Rained a Bit in Fethiye Today!

Turkey’s weather here in Fethiye is getting to be as changeable as the UK !

Welcome to sunny Fethiye in Turkey !
Take a look at this:

Looks like a river right?

and this:

Well this is no river !
This is how our road looked and if we follow it up to the ever so nice little natural water spout…

… as you can see it is slightly overflowing.

The water is supposed to come out of a channel under the arch, like you see in these photos that were taken before the rain.

In fact, usually the natural spring is a delightful area that is used by the families as a social chatting point, often one of the neighbours makes a pot of tea and they sit under the tree for the afternoon.

Incidentally, most of the locals fill up water bottles here for their drinking water. They all have piped tap water but they prefer the taste of this natural mountain water and they have been drinking it from this source for the past couple of hundred years.

But if you came here today and wanted to explore around the “cesme” you would have some difficulty climbing the stairs!

Going up to the next level didn’t get much easier:

Well at least summer is on the way so hopefully that was the last of the heavy rains - but who can tell the weather is getting so unpredictable.

I remember my first summer here in Fethiye some 9 years ago. The sky was blue and clear from the day I arrived in late May right through until October. I don’t think I saw any clouds at all the summer and I thought “WOW” maybe the clouds are kept out because we are surrounded by mountains. well things have changed !!