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 !!

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