Donna Gulec Articles
Our Gundogan Blue Voyage #5Day Seven
After breakfast and a short beer run (we were on our 15th case of the local Efes beer – which was obviously very tasty) we left the harbor to find another quiet cove. A swim and a nap and a delicious lunch of green beans with tomatoes and bulgur – and we were [...]
Our Gundogan Blue Voyage #8Day Eleven
The following morning we returned to Olympus and played 18 holes of frisbee golf using each one of the buildings ruins as a hole. It was great fun. We did not have time to see Chimera, the place where the first Olympic torch was lit from eternal flames that rise from the earth [...]
Day Nine
The next day we went off to the village to buy a Saint Nicholas wall hanging we had eyed the day before. We went back to one of the only two carpet shops in the village – Gordes carpet. We found the owner, Kadriye, who told us that the St. Nicholas [...]
Day Eight
Our next destination was Kale and Kekova. We found a lovely cove in the morning to breakfast in and had a swim. We sailed to the area called Kekova and sailed along about 20 feet from the coast viewing ruins of ancient Lycia. Steps emerge from the sea, wharfs, churches, [...]
Our Gundogan Blue VoyageDay Seven
After breakfast and a short beer run (we were on our 15th case of the local Efes beer – which was obviously very tasty) we left the harbor to find another quiet cove. A swim and a nap and a delicious lunch of green beans with tomatoes and bulgur – and we were [...]
Our Gundogan Blue Voyage #4Day Six
An excursion to Patara, Xanthos and Letoon was on our schedule for the day but the heat of the sun convinced most of our group to remain on the sea. Only four of us went on the journey driven by a local driver. We came first to Letoon, a small ancient Lycian city [...]
Our Gundogan Blue Voyage #2Day Three
We left Dalyan and the Captain found a beautiful cove with clear, turquoise blue water. We woke up and took a swim. By that time breakfast of white and kasar cheese, fresh Turkish bread, assorted green and kalamata olives, perfectly ripened peaches, and honey and jams, eggs with socuk (Turkish spicy sausage), [...]
Slopping around in the thermal mud baths.
Our Gundogan Blue Voyage #3Lunching and swimming and lounging are all in a hard day’s work.
