Hi,
So we are in the Med. What kind of a place is this? I haven't seen one woman belly dancer! Oh, I've heard rumors that they dance and undress shirts from men & act in a shameless manor. I need to see a dancer that can spin those twirly things around on their breasteses (?) . I don't know how long we will be in Turkey and I might miss the best of it. Sure, we've seen the palaces in Istanbul and the ruins in Izmir. A Roman coliseum is also nice to look at, but come on! Let someone take pity on me and show me a belly dancer. Linda won't do it so I need to seek other means.

Our ship came in!
We were easily off loaded in Marmaris & pulled into Yacht Marin with 1200 yachts on the hard. The two gigantic travellifts never stop as all of these yachts want to now go back in the water. Our turn is coming as we need to bottom paint (the boat) and do some gel coat repair. It is $600 euros just to be on the hardstand for 2 weeks. Rent a piece of scaffold or a ladder and its $50euros a pop. Well we need to get it done & we wanted to come to the Med so we can't complain too much. We are now in Turkish civilization and we can buy a bread , some cheese & a glass of wine & sit out in the cafes as the tourist do. I'm tired of Turkish tea. I drink coffee. We have looked at dozens of carpet . If only they could make one that flies! It's really not too bad here. We also have trouble with our mainsail but that story is for another email.

By the way, that's me jumping into 50 degree water to retreive a stainless bracket that I dropped from our BBQ. I was in & out in 1 minute!