One last stroll through Old Town Marmaris 2013

This is probably the final time I’ll type that address; at least for 2013. Yesterday morning we “sea tested” DoraMac and everything was mostly fine. Our ICOM radio may, or may not send sailmail, but that’s a convenience issue and not a seaworthy issue. I need regular wifi to send blog posts. As we’ll be moving quite a bit, my posts might be much less often. Then you’ll get a billion at once with a zillion photos to clog your mailbox. I’ll really try not to do that.

Our plan is to attend one final Tuesday Happy Hour to say our good-byes and then Wednesday morning leave the marina about 8:00 am to be at the check-out dock at customs by 8:30. (Customs is just around the other side of the marina but I like leaving lots of time.) If all goes quickly at check-out we’ll leave for Simi (Symi) Greece and arrive by mid-afternoon for our check-in process. It will start our Schengen clock ticking which is only a sort of daunting thought. We have 90 days to be through the Med and on our way to the Channel Islands. Tunisia isn’t part of Schengen so our visit there will stop the clock for a bit.

So here are some final photos of lovely Marmaris, Turkey. It has been a great place to winter thanks to all of Gwen’s hard work to make marina living more fun; the great people we’ve met here; and the friendly, helpful marina staff. All in all, a hard place to leave.

DoraMac

One last stroll through Old Town Marmaris 2013

A new Subway opened along the waterfront…

A sign you’ll never see in the Roanoke Subway…..

“6 inch Sub & Beer for 15.90 TL” = about $ 9.

Interesting too is that the sub size is given in inches and not centimeters as everything else here is in metric. Randal and I stick to our Turkish favorites; we can eat Subway at home.

Town end of Bar Street; quiet and peaceful until about 11 PM and then the boom booms make our boat shake.

When we were first new, the blue Beach sign was the landmark to turn back towards the marina.

Old Mosque Square….

Fountain for washing of hands and feet.

The mosque is opposite but now has its own faucets. Across from the fountain is MGM which is sort of like TJ Maxx.

Lou from C’mon Girl and I braved the curious onlookers and came here to sketch on morning. We actually sat across from this scene and I drew it, including a very patient man who sat the whole time I sketched. Maybe he was resting or maybe he was sitting for me. The next day I walked past and the benches had all been painted preventing anyone from sitting anywhere for a few days.

The day I was taking these photos, this store owner asked about my friend and me and our “art work.”

She remembered me and asked which was nice. My sketch wasn’t good enough to give her, or I would have. Lou and her husband Guy returned to Canada for Lou’s daughter’s wedding and another daughter’s graduation from nursing school. Lou makes beautiful art quilts among her other art projects.

I love alleys.

This fire engine had only inches to spare getting down this pedestrian street. Good thing the truck wasn’t there for a fire.

Path to the Castle

I walked past this small shop which is hard to do as the “grandmother” takes your hand and talks non-stop asking where you’re from and don’t you want to see her shop. I bought one of the small prints in the right hand corner.

Unfortunately this was the morning I discovered the Castle would not reopen until July. One time, our first visit to Marmaris, Randal and I walked to the Castle but it was closed for lunch. The next time we visited, our second visit to Turkey, it was closed for renovation.