Dalyan – 12th August

The flight was meant to land at Dalaman airport at 3am on Monday 12th August but it was delayed. I was fortunate that my parents had kindly agreed to let me stay at their apartment in Dalyan and Sonuç was picking me up. I got there about 5.30am and my Mom had instructed me that I would need to turn on the electric at the meter in the garden and then on the fuse board outside the front door. When we arrived, Sonuc carried my suitcase and we noticed that the electric meter was already on, as were the lights in the next door neighbour’s apartment and on the communal staircase. The fuseboard outside the door was already on so I went in carefully while Sonuç waited to check no one was inside – there wasn’t.
I went straight to sleep, after making the bed and had 2 hours before it got light and woke me up again. By 9.30am I was in the Captainnet office putting the internet on. My residency permit expires in October so the lady would only permit me to put on one month at 675 lira (£15.77). I went to the bank and deposited some Dollars and I contacted the dentist for an appointment for my chipped tooth. At 7pm I was getting ready to go to Nanny Kay’s birthday meal at Hotel Dalyance, I hadn’t unpacked (aside from my wine bucket and tea bags) and couldn’t find anything nice to wear. I arrived and was a couple of minutes late so everyone was already seated and there was about 20 people on one table. I sat at the end next to Lisa and Engin and I ordered an Efes beer. We had already pre ordered food and I had chosen the Pad Thai. When the food came, it was very nice but I would say it was more a Singapore Noodles than a Pad Thai and it was very soy sauce heavy. There was no water ordered for the table so I ordered myself a big bottle of water of which 3 others shared some. A beer was 150 lira (£3.50), the water 50 lira (£1.17) and the Pad Thai 550 lira (£12.85), a total of 750 lira (£17.52) so not extortionate for a meal out in a nice setting but prices were definitely on the rise a little. Service was good but the cooling fans that were on us got moved when a family with kids came in so it was a bit sweaty. As soon as the birthday song had been sang and the cake distributed I was ready for my bed. The cake was carrot and had been made by Nanny Kay herself, probably the best birthday cake I’d tasted in Turkey. The night had been nice but I didn’t get to speak much to Nanny Kay and it was disappointing that Jamie and Drew weren’t there as they had Jamie’s 3 nephews with them.