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it is better to take a size smaller — rubber or plastic passing ships. If Biarritz is still an open bay, then
ones stretch quite well, but if they dangle on your leg, everything is different here. The sea is less agitated,
then a walk can turn into a hellish ordeal. The water but it is also less clear.
will immediately wash sand into them, and your entire They say that just recently half of the price tags here
journey will consist of attempts to wash it back out were in British pounds, but now they are no longer
of there. If at the same time the slippers still fidget on there. However, Russian signs can also be found. For
your feet, then you can imagine what your feet will example — “a private Pilates teacher is recruiting a
turn into after such an abrasive test. A very pleasant group.”
and purely Turkish entertainment is to sit on ankle- Still, such Europeanization outside of Europe looks
deep benches in icy water. Considering that outside rather ridiculous. It’s as if they built a fence for the
the shade provided by the marble walls + 40, this filming of the sequel to The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,
entertainment does not seem extreme. There are even “20 Years Later.” Or how many are there already?
cafes here where all visitors sit like this. Rheumatism? 50? By the way, it is those who were young in the 60s
— No, we didn’t! who make up the main contingent of local expats.
A walk carries a very serious sporting load and, They already had everything. They now need peace
probably, a recreational one too. Guides in helmets and quiet. Apparently, this is what Fethiye provides.
and climbing equipment went higher up the canyon. Who wants to, as it is now fashionable to say
At the beginning of the journey, it is considered too “movement” — there are other possibilities. Turkey has
simple... everything.
Yes, if you are not carried away by a stormy ice
stream, then undoubtedly this attraction can be visited
with children.
After lunch at one of the many small restaurants, we
moved further towards Fethiye. As usual, I’ve heard a
lot about him, but it’s better to see him once.
Fethiye — by the way, is the beginning (or the end?)
of the famous Lycian Trail — a cult site for hiking.

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Fethiye, frankly speaking, disappointed me a little.
Maybe because the bar was raised too high — the
British will not choose a hole for the place of their
compact residence! Perhaps... Perhaps this was the
case a year ago, when the pandemic did not go
through the Turkish hospitality industry with fire and
sword. Today Fethiye is very reminiscent of Khosta.
A beach with rather rough pebbles, interspersed
with the cigarette butts of all possible cigarettes in the
world, oil stains in a canal, which is really very similar
to the Baltic coast of Europe, the inhabited islands
in the bay look very funny, it’s quite possible to live
there if you have some kind of transport craft. There
is a port nearby, which means all the restrictions — a
busy fairway and, whatever one may say, dirt from

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