It is definitely a different season here at the Marina. Lots of boats have left their winter hardstands and are in the water or off cruising. The morning radio cruisers net that took too long now is over in about 10 minutes. I guess those of us who are still here, and there are still probably close to 1,000 boats, just have nothing to say. Randal has been busy catching up with boat chores. He installed new engine start batteries that stopped working during our horrid Indian Ocean crossing. (We have a back up system.) He designed and has ordered a stainless steel reel to hold long lines. We still have to repair the dinghy but nothing really major to do. Hopefully by July we’ll be out cruising too and seeing the coast by boat rather than by bike. We do want to make a bike trip along the coast south east of Marmaris to look at the marinas in that area. Today it’s just a trip to town to the Thursday market for fruit and vegetables and more cheese! I ate my half kilo (a little over a pound) of white cheese from last week so need more. It has become a breakfast staple for me or a snack. We bought 2 kilo of what we thought was cheddar (that’s what we asked for and Randal tasted) but now we think is parmesan so will try for cheddar this time. I froze a good chunk of the parmesan because it can be crumbly and that’s ok. It tastes really good but a little goes a long way and I like the white goat cheese better.
Yesterday we went to town, tried a new restaurant and I ate a filled pancake for lunch. Today it will be the old favorite chicken wrap.
Ru
Doramac
The real Pancake Queen!"
I had the title of ‘pancake queen" in our bike club, but that was for eating pancakes.
Preparing my giant spinach/cheese pancake
Cooking it on top of what looks like an inverted wok.
We met Linda and Michael in town to try "their" new restaurant. Along with lots of other choices including a sort of home made ravioli like I’d had in Beldibi, they offer stuffed pancakes. The pancake maker was the star of the show so I forgot to take a photo of the pancake! It tasted like a cross between a Mexican casadia and a Malaysian roti chanai* and to eat a whole one is ridiculous! They’re huge. But by the time I stopped stuffing myself, there wasn’t so much left to take home so I just kept eating until there was only one tiny corner left. When the dough is rolled out it covers her board, but it is very thin. It is folded in half to cook and then folded again and then cut up in sections and served. Linda and Michael had learned about the restaurant from anti-fouling paint supplier who said, “Turks eat there.” It was quite good, but I still like the wrap best. But the pancake maker was cute! (Good thing I walked for hours later to walk some of it off…but then was hot and ate a McDonalds soft ice cream.)
After lunch Michael and Linda went off for their chores and Randal biked off for his chores and I went walking around town looking for a place to sit and sketch …. But mostly walked and took photos for a few hours. Old Town Marmaris is the small area near the waterfront with restaurants and shops and the old stone buildings that have thankfully not been torn down. There is a fort too and I’ll go there next trip with my sketch pad and hide in a corner and hopefully actually do some sketching rather than just take photos.
*Amazingly when Randal and I couldn’t remember the term "roti chanai" I googled Sungai Rengit and Doramac and the first hit was about our favorite roti maker.
Restaurants and a few shops line the waterfront near old town Marmaris.
These places are for the tourists. We eat in the “working areas” of Marmaris where the Turks eat.
Gulets for hire to cruise the Turkish coast.
A good deal of this fountain was just being completed when we arrived in Marmaris.
None of the seating areas along the waterfront are shaded! I noticed that yesterday when I was hot and tired and looking for someplace to sit and sketch. The restaurants all have umbrellas offering shade so you are tempted to go buy an expensive drink to sit in the shade rather than drink you cheap bottle of water and sit in the sun. But I sat in the sun because I wanted to look back and try to sketch an umbrella and wicker chair. It’s a lot harder to draw an umbrella than you might think and have it actually look like what it really looks like and not a “cartoon” umbrella. Mine was half and half.
Now we need new pillow covers to go with the new carpets but this one was the wrong shades of red and blue. I didn’t bother to ask the price because on the waterfront everything adds liras!
Behind the waterfront areas there are stairs and pathways that lead to the narrow streets of Old Town Marmaris.
The back side of the front…the working side, quiet and shady.
There were shops and restaurants, but it mostly looked like homes: I’d love to go into one.
It was quiet and shady and lovely.
Sox just lost their 4th in a row, but I’m not as worried as when they lost all those games in April. I think they are the July team just taking a rest! Go Bruins!
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