A Trip to Bezirgan

More beautification. The mosque by the market has had a coat of paint and a new roof.

I don’t think the belediye has paid for this. Mosques in Turkey are run by a government department. The market was pretty empty this week but I’d got there late and most of the tourists had been and gone and were probably back by their pools or at the beach.

Even the the stalls the Turks use had few customers.

I went up to Bezirgan to see Hasan and his family. They move up there from Fethiye at the end of June when the school holidays start. This year the school holidays have been extended till the end of September to include Şeker Bayram at the end of Ramadan. It’s alright for the teachers, he said. But what about the parents? I stopped off at Mrs T’s on the Yayla Yol.

And on the way whenever I saw a good view. Which was most of the time. Mouse Island and Snake Island in the bay.

At the top of Yumrutepe.

And the view over Bezirgan valley.

And of course the Bezirgan barbeque area, which, as well as the new fence, now has a mescit, a small mosque or prayer room for passing travellers.

And a soap dish, nailed to the side of the seating area. Although people were still leaving the soap on top of the fountain.

Outside Hasan’s the fields were still green.
 
And his garden was doing well. Peach trees.

Straight from tree to plate. Plums behind the peaches. The plums are a bit sore, he said. I have to pick them before the birds get them. Ermmm, Hasan, I said after I took a bite, I think you mean sour. And what looked like giant foxglove, now going to seed.

But then I’m no gardener.

The islands off the Kaş road by Kaputaş beach on the way back.

Linda, over at Dave and Linda’s, has just got her new bike. A Mondial MCT250. Very nice. Maybe I’ll get to try it out.