Monthly Archives: February 2004

Leap year day and an invitation to lunch up in Karaman village. Our friends Barbara and Bruce have recently returned from a visit to Australia and they invited us up for Sunday lunch. The weather was pleasantly warm and so we were able to sit out on their terrace for pre-lunch drinks, this before Barbara … Continue reading »

The weather has started to get a little warmer during this later part of the week, so we took advantage and started to do some of those end of winter jobs around the garden. Joan had me making a couple of trellises to allow her honeysuckle shrubs to climb over the front wall. George introduced … Continue reading »

This evening we went, together with George, Susan, Michael and Barbara, to the St Andrews church quiz evening. We made up the team called The Lapta Layabouts. Must admit it was good fun and for us our first time at a quiz evening. It shows up your depth of general knowledge, or in our case … Continue reading »

Sort of a normal week really, but we did receive a couple of photos that are worth sharing with you. For the last 2 weeks Fiona Norton has been over here, without her husband and on a shopping spree for things for their house, which is nearly ready. She joined some of us on a … Continue reading »

This evening we, together with Michael and Barbara, tried a new restaurant, The Grapevine. At least it was new for Joan and I and came with their recommendation, as they had been there last year for lunch. The Grapevine is easy to find on the right of the road, leading from the roundabout down to … Continue reading »

Well we heard from the Insurance company, this time in writing, no pay out on the gazebo. What makes you think they might lose the premiums on two cars and the house next time around. Speaking of the gazebo, today we had the sort of weather that did the damage last time, but this time … Continue reading »

Things had improved a little this morning so we got ourselves a cab and set off for The Boat Show. There were some really nice boats on show, one we found quite realistic in size and price, a real nice boat for keeping on a med harbour. Others were just a case of dream on, … Continue reading »

Our original plan had been, relax around the old town on Thursday, find one of The Big Shopping Malls on Friday then do The Boat Show on Saturday. So today was Friday, shopping day. During the night the snow had come down really heavy so we asked in the hotel about a taxi, but as … Continue reading »

Well we arrived in Istanbul right on time and were met by the hotel taxi as promised. One small snag, its snowing and quite heavy too. Because we were staying in the old town area we decided to don our cold weather gear and venture out into the Grand Bazaar. We did remember, from last … Continue reading »

Joan and I are preparing to go over to Istanbul for a few days. We leave on the 7 a.m. flight tomorrow morning and have booked a hotel in the middle of the old town, near the Blue Mosque and The Grand Bazaar. The real reason for going over is the big boat show which … Continue reading »