Dalyan – 10th & 11th February

Something strange happened on Monday 10th February, I got a comment on one of my blog posts on Facebook which was meant to be from Martin Garrix asking me to message him for a private chat. As he has met me I knew it was spam so I reported the sender. What wasn’t spam though, was an update to the Turkish Residency rules for first timers; with immediate effect the new rule was that applicants who owned their own property would have to get a valuation report to prove that their property was worth over $200,000 (£155,000) if they wanted to apply for residency. This meant that Captain Caveman would potentially no longer qualify to apply, even if he wanted to. It was cloudy outside today so my office view was a little different. I had Yorkshire tea and a pho ga (chicken noodle soup) for breakfast then had the morning off work to attend a course. I had enrolled on a free Mastermind with Charlie Day to freshen up my sales and business skills. I found it really interesting and enjoyed it more than I thought I would. I had a late lunch of a Slimming World style wrap and watched the clouds disappear before sunset, from my office. I’d had an interesting enquiry for a multi-centre trip which involved Singapore & Malaysia. I made chicken fajita pasta for dinner and was in bed before 11pm as I had a busy day tomorrow.

Gratitude List
1. Taking the morning off to do a sales course
2. Nice food
3. Having an extra duvet on the bed to keep warm.

I did 3 separate, unrelated courses on Tuesday 11th February, one of which was recommended to me by Helen, our Resort Expert in Italy. After marmalade on toast with my Yorkshire tea I cracked on with all the free learning and took on quite a lot of useful information and tips. It was also good to mix with lots of business people for a change. At 1.30pm I ate leftover chicken fajita pasta for lunch while watching a Webinar for Resort Experts.
In the afternoon I managed to do my Turkish homework and dealt with a Greek booking. Captain Caveman called me after I had eaten my chicken stir-fry dinner and helped me work something out on the Amazon KDP which I was still struggling with. He told me not to give up and that I should carry on doing it so that people could get an actual copy of my book. I really hated Amazon and would prefer to never have to use it, but needs must! The Kobo book had not had any interest and it wasn’t user friendly in Turkey for an English book by the looks of it. I decided to have a walk round Dalyan for some fresh air in the cold and dark. The streets were empty and it was really refreshing.

Gratitude List
1. Helen recommending the course I did with Erin
2. An evening walk round Dalyan in the cold and dark
3. Captain Caveman helping me with Amazon.