After several lean years, it seems that we Brits may be falling in love with Turkey all over again. You know things are on the up when the London Evening Standard Property Supplement runs a feature on the Bodrum Peninsula with our old cruising ground, Yalıkavak, and its fancy new marina, getting a special mention. This how I described our first glimpse of the whitewashed town in my first book, Perking the Pansies, Jack and Liam move to Turkey
As we breached the brow of the hill, we caught our first picture postcard glimpse of Yalıkavak shimmering at the end of a lush valley below like randomly scattered sugar cubes on an overgrown lawn.
Chapter 3, Back to the Future
These days the sugar cubes are tumbling over every hill and, at the top end of the market, this is what you can get:
It’s the kind of dream home that costs a whole lot more than the misleading £75,000 quoted in the ad. Also, what the agents don’t tell you (and why would they?) is that if you keep all your doors and windows open after sunset, you’ll get eaten alive by mozzies. Just so you know.
Perking the Pansies 
Mozzies? Yes, they do like their drink warm. 😦
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Yes, we learned that lesson the hard way 😊
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I’m amazed by the number of $2,000,000 plus houses in Yalikavak.
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Crazy prices. I wonder how long it can last.
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. . you’ve left me totally disillusioned – I thought that adverts (especially from estate agents) were supposed to be true representations 😦
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You’ll get over it 😉
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Lol, you’re such a realist Jack! 🙂 And then of course there’s all the maintenance costs should you buy on a site with fancy facilities…Aaarrgh, now I’m doing it. So close to Christmas, too. 😉
Julia
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The devil, as they say, is in the detail even at Christmas 🎅😈
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Believe it or not. There where NO mozzies in Yalikavak last summer😄
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Are they spraying? They did in Bodrum a couple of times a week.
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