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May 2009 - Pretty Vacant
Our eyes were not deceiving us in the warm Turkish summer air, the Greek Orthodox Basilica of the Virgin Mary was turning to dust as we watched. Swooping martins made elaborate patterns, dodging the plumes of powdered plasterwork falling from the addled ceiling. I was entranced, and so was my wife, but our two daughters had spotted something even more extraordinary...
September 2008 - Exotic Med Total Guide
Hot summers, and a respect for their roots as pastoral nomads, explain why so many Turks yearn for the inland heights. It is to the hills that they have traditionally headed, livestock and all, leaving the tour buses and the pushy restaurant touts to tussle it out on the blazing coast. In recent years, imaginative hoteliers, along with villa and B&B - owners, have begun to follow in their footsteps.
August 2006 - In At The Deep End, Is a real holiday possible with kids?
All the scene lacks is Simon Le Bon with a breeze in his hair. I’m posing on the prow of a luxury motor cruiser as it bobs gently in the blue Aegean Sea beyond Kalkan town, on Turkey’s southern Riviera. The white-uniformed captain skilfully refills my glass with pink champagne, and I stretch out across the polished wood and gleaming brass. There’s nothing to mar the daydream – the daydream that this is my boat, my crew, my champagne cellar, my beautiful life…
