Turkey time: Bodrum

We hopped over to Marmaris, Turkey, from Rhodes and immidiately caught a bus to another toursity, coastal town called Bodrum. Why the change, youhref="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju-u7d6_Dtla75cJXv0dtAuAABzgyl1sLd7LomOzqvK58if8zO94T4ttTH8BFaIUNjY_sJeD3cdogG2Sh7qdoIzcZhureYyiJyp6uuERiMdfMao8aaTNhUWWhl_CJ9dkdW2tpIjTXuul0P/s1600/01+bodrum+phil.jpg"> might ask. Diving. Bodrum is one of (or prehaps style="font-style: italic;">the) place to dive in Turkey. It also has a cool fort with a museum inside and loads of the regular tourist shops and restaurants.

But back to the diving: it was pretty good and Ahmet, our diving guide, was fabulous as was the dive shop owner. We did two dives, the first to a little reef about 30 mins from the mainland where we saw a very good eel and some nice schools of fish. The second dive was to a wreck of a coast guard's ship which you could penetrate but as I was having bouyancy issues we gave it a miss. While the diving wasn't spell-binding, it was a great chance to get back under the water.