cheer us up!

[skilly]

redrhino,
i can see you are using the forum at the moment, please tell us some of your reminiscences to cheer us up on this miserable evening!! we are going to ireland on 10th july and i am looking forward to that as we are meeting a relative of my husbands who we found over the internet! he has traced the family tree back to 1811!!!
but i am still excited about going to icmeler 6 weeks later. my freind says i must have been a turk in a previous life as i never stop saying how great turkey is!!!
skilly

[Colette]

I love Genes stories about his antiks and walks etc, come on Gene

[skilly]

thanks for replying collette, it really feels like someone is out there!!
i,ve had a really rubbish day at work (can't swear on this forum!!) and i love being transported to the sun in icmeler.
collette, i know you may not be able to give me this info but i would love to chat about ireland to someone, well my husband would, do you know of any forums like this only about ireland?

[Colette]

Skilly I have split these threads and will let yours run for now link here to it

http://www.icmeleronline.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1092

This can now stay as a Gene request for more Stories

[redrhino12]

At the moment I am about as dried up of storries as that river bed running through the centre of Icmeler.

What we do need though is for all those returning from Icmeler, is just to type in a few lines of your experiences of your holiday in and around the resort.

We are are longing to hear, if only a few snippets of that walk along the canal browsing the shops under those twinkling fairylights.
That day by the sea when the fish attacked your feet.
Talk about that walk from your apartments in to town if you were lodging outside in the village.
Tell us about the nightlife around the old village.
How many times did the wasps take advantage while you were laying on that sunbed.

Which bars did you go in.
What kind of entertainment did you watch, or did you prefer to just sit and gaze out to sea of an evening, the sun gently going down, to be taken over by the blackness of a night sky only lit by stars and that big round moon whos reflection bounces of the sea.

You are all full of storries that I myselfe would love to hear.
Just a few lines, doesnt matter about pictures,we have our imaginations.

In Anticipation Gene

[Lynn m]

A couple of years ago we were staying in the Blue Rainbow and had a beautiful view of the bay one night around 4 o’clock we were wakened up by what I thought was the air con coming on by itself it turn out that is was a thunder storm and it was pouring with rain but when the rain stopped the most spectacular lightning show I have ever seen started, the fork lightning was hitting off the sea and it looked like Marmaris was under attack from Aliens (bit artistic licence here) it was such a spectacular sight I will never forget it.

[redrhino12]

Thats it Lynn,they the sort of memories that stick with you.
You dont get those lightning storms in England like abroad.

It reminded me of the time a few years back in May.
We were staying in the Sun Blue Apartments (just behind Marti near Hotel 47).
This evening we had gone to the Deniz Kapisi for our night out, in truth we used to go every night to the Deniz.
Anyway we are sat in the Kapisi when one of Lynns lightning storms struck out at sea, it was magnificent, sheet lightning and thunder.
Music stopped and people just watched as nature put on this fantastic light show.
Then the rain started, not a pitter patter of "raindrops falling on your head" but a torrent of water as the heavens opened.
This went on for a couple of hours then it was time to go home maybe 1am.
Tekin asked us if we wanted driving home, But being on holiday who wants to ride in cars (our Ann Did).
We set off walking dressed just in shorts and short sleaved shirt,trainers.
Ann in dress and top, she looked lovely when we went out earlier in the evening, Andre trousers and Tshirt.
Well if you know the promenade there are walls and verges were the plants are, The water must have been 6 inches deep.
We waded and danced through this singing that Gene Kelly song all the way to our apartments only leaving the promenade to walk up by the side of the Bamboo Restaurent were the fish tank is.

The shoes had dropped to bits with the water,My trainers ruined and they had cost me £10 from Asda, clothes never again to be worn.
Hair matted to our faces.
Andre and myselfe wouldt have swapped this evening for anything in the world.
Our Ann says she would.

Not a normal holiday, but an experience that money cant buy for sheer enjoyment.

Gene

[skilly]

very descriptive!! only in icmeler can the rain be so much fun. i remember the first time we went to icmeler when we travelled from dalaman it was raining, it was late september and i thought 'my god, where have we come to!' but my fears were soon dispelled when the sun came out
one night during that holiday we had just got ready to go out one evening and the heavens opened about 8pm. the roads were flooded, i'd never seen rain like it, we could not get out of the hotel it was impossible, so we watched from the balcony until it stopped and then went out about 10.30pm. needless to say we made up for lost time and had a brilliant night. one thing i do think is lovely about holidaying in icmeler is going out without a coat with a strappy dress on and you're still lovely & warm at 11pm at night! i could stay out all night its so nice!!

[Diane Rigby]

When we were in Icmeler in July 2004 we were staying at the Sevgi Apartments in the old village when we were woken in the early hours of the morning by what sounded like a train passing by. Everything was shaking, just slightly. I turned to my hubby and said "that must have been an earth tremor" and promptly turned over and went back to sleep. The next morning when we went down for our breakfast Mustafa told us that there had been a tremor but the epicentre was about 40 miles away. My 2 boy's didn't hear/feel anything and were amazed to hear this and disappointed that they had missed it. Looking back I can't believe I was so calm about it all but hey your on holiday and it just didn't seem to be important. Di.

[Colette]

Fantastic stories, makes me shiver in glee when I read them, the main special thing I can remember was sitting in a bar (not the venice) IN Marmaris, I remember I couldn't drink all hols as had been ill that year, so boring me with my bottle of water, just happened to look up to the sky in time to see a shooting star go whizzing over the sky.

Have to say it was magical.

[karlee]

I rememer when we stayed at the Demircioglu apartments in July 2004
we had been out for the night had a great time,came in slightly tipsy and sat on the balcony for a nightcap as you do.
Afer a while we decided to go to bed i was feeling a bit worse for wear by this time,lay on the bed feeling dizzy and the room spinning a bit
I'm sure you all know the feeling
Not sure what time it was but i was awoken by what i thought was the wardrobe banging and shaking against the wall,woke hubby up but he said no your still drunk! you've imagined it
Never drinking again says me
Was i relieved next day at the pool when everyone was talking about the "earthquake"we still laugh about it now.
Karlee

[redrhino12]

I can remember the earth moving for Mrs Redrhino once.




But thats another story

Gene

[Colette]

Gene

Does Mrs Redrhino remember it though

[Diane Rigby]

karlee must have been the same one as when we were there Going back 3 weeks Friday, cant wait. Di

[karlee]

Yes it must have been Diane
We go back on the 7th august so will probably just miss you,shame would have been nice to meet up.
Hope there's none this year
Karlee

[Tracy]

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[Karemolinos]

Last year on our way back from the Denis Kapisi, late one night, My teenage daughters myself and Mr. K were quite 'merry' and my eldest daughter decided to do a Michael Jackson impression while we all sang to accompany her It was all quiet along the beach walk......so we thought! thats when we heard the 'sniggers' from the security guards outside the Munamar, who had a ringside view !!

[Lynn m]

Ged will kill me but a security guard from the Munanar started to chat him up one night when we were on our way home, he was walking in front of me a bit as it I had stopped to chat to someone and when I caught up with him he was being chatted up when I told the guard to get his eyes of my man he said to Ged is that your wife and gave me the biggest dirty look ever. I've never saw Ged move so fast in his life.

[redrhino12]

Its funny that Lynn because we used to go in this Turkish soup kitchen and became friendly with the staff.
Well this particular time we had just returned again to Icmeler after the winter break and we were all walking past this cafe when this friend came running out of the cafe,crossed the road and then he hugged me and kissed me on both cheeks.

Nothing wrong in that I hear you say but he didnt even speak to Ann or Andre he was just over the moon at seeing me and kept holding my hand.

Needless to say I try not to walk down that road now, us men have a sense for these funny things you know.

I have never lived it down and Ann ribs me every time we walk near this street.

Gene

[babs]

Dont know about the earth moving - but the first time in Icmeler some years ago we watched the total eclipse through the apartment owner's hip replacement x-ray film! Wonder what our hospitals do with our x-ray plates when they are finished with - or do the export for such reasons