BajaBlanca - 2-8-2022 at 07:16 AM
We arrived well with tons of luggage! Our move is permanent, the rest of our belongings arrive in 2 months.
Here we are leaving LAX
Here we are arriving at Antalya International Airport, 2 hours away from Alanya - our new home town.
We spent one night in Antalya and drove 2 hours the next day. As soon as we pulled into town in our rental car, we met up with our amigo Erbay and his
new bride at ALL ONE LOVE REGGAE restaurant, which belongs to his friend. Erbay had our house keys.
Here is the grand view out our front living room window!!! Not too shabby, eh?
Our new favorite pastime is people and Mediterranean sea watching, so we created this special nook. Lots of time spent here...chatting, reading,
internet and just plain looking out the window.
The next day we met up with Erbay again and had this delicious flatbread called LAVASH. It has been the best lavash I have tried so far.
Another day, we had our friends Fatih and his family over. They were our neighbors when we were here on vacation in June. He is the connection guy,
whatever you need, he can find someone.
Fatih and his wife gave us this vase as a housewarming gift! I absolutely love it.
So, first impressions: garbage is picked up EVERY DAY and apparently during the tourist summer season, it is picked up twice a day. In La bocana, we
never knew when the pickup would be and many a time, we ourselves just took trash to the dump since it gets messy with a hotel.
We have not found good coffee yet for our percolator. It is too fine (for espresso) and makes mud. Tea is the drink of the land and I do not like
it. The search is still on!
Drivers are crazy, crazier than most other cities we have been to. They honk at Les - who is a really fast driver!
Our title to our apartment comes with a bar code that brings up the address, a view from above (drone) and all the info attached to the title. Pretty
impressive.
That's all for the first week although, if this thread goes thru (cross my fingers) it is because
1. our vpn is active and
2. we just had super fast fiber optic installed an hour ago!
David K - 2-8-2022 at 08:56 AM
Super great report, Blanca!
Yes, the photos came through fine (hooray).
Can you not buy coffee beans and grind them yourself?
I dig that you live where there are both palm and banana trees! (I thought I saw snow there or it looked cold in your photos from before?)
Stay in touch, please!
TMW - 2-8-2022 at 11:02 AM
Great for you both, wishing you the best.
chuckie - 2-8-2022 at 03:05 PM
SO? What have you learned about the fishing? The FISHING?
JZ - 2-8-2022 at 04:06 PM
You guys are very adventurous. Much, much braver than the ordinary person.
BajaBlanca - 2-8-2022 at 05:51 PM
All of us are adventurous! Heck, we go to Baja, the wild land of Mexico LOL
I have not attempted to study Turkish just yet but I did find out that there are classes for foreigners everywhere. I will be investigating after a
long break. Between jetlag and the stress of making sure our move went as planned, I am really tired. It is 3:40 am as I write and I feel like it is
noon - wide awake!
Indeed, the solution is to get a grinder and that hunt is on later! But still, how odd that all grinds are espresso grind?
Fishing!!! We def need to check out the fishing.
Have a good day all and if anyone is feeling flush with cash, I have 6 students that need their Mexican passports with 6 year validation. I so want
them to go to the US at least once before they get bogged down in working and life and not enough time! Visas are pretty much automatic if you are a
college student and pretty much a guarantee to be denied once you start working.
Cost is $100 and later we will have the cost of the visa itself...which ain't cheap but at least we know it is pretty much guatanteed to be granted.
Rogelio is ready to go for his passport as soon as we can help with the cost.
David K - 2-8-2022 at 06:11 PM
Ahhh, talking to us from 11 hours in the future!