• Home
  • about
  • food & farm
    • Active Farm Blogs
      • Semi-Active & Retired Farm Blogs
    • Flat Stanley Farm & City Adventures Across the Country!
  • travel
    • big trips
  • policies/what flies
    • Privacy Policy
  • store
  • contact
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • Twitter
    • YouTube

JP loves LIFE!

  • Home
  • TRAVEL
  • FARM
  • FOOD

11/19/15

Memories of Antalya, Turkey Thanks to the G-20

This week as Paris has been on the minds of so many, I have to admit my mind kept shifting to a city many miles away. It was referenced routinely as world leaders would be gathering for the G-20 summit. The city is Antalya, Turkey.

The fact that the attacks in Paris happened to be cueing up memories of Antalya kept feeling strange. I visited the city of Antalya more than a decade ago and yet it still has a permanent place in my heart and head. I’m just going to put a few photos I took as a friend and I traveled around the city and the area around it and I think you will understand how captivating the city is. And how incredibly peaceful that visit had been.

Antalya’s Historic City Center

The city has historic walls that have protected its center & port for centuries.

wall around Antaly Antalya marina

tower of Antalya Antalya marina

Waterfalls just outside of town offer an incredible connection to nature and since I was there in the heat of summer, I have to attest to the cooling properties of so much shade and cool water… it was amazing!

such blue water beauty of Antalya area

Lasting Impression

This all collides with the fact that as I visited with someone from Europe this week, our host came by and offered us drinks. We both wanted water…. the European wanted water with gas, no ice and I wanted still water with lots of ice. Such a simple difference but it triggered a memory of that long trip in Turkey.

the best waiter everThe summer heat was unbearable for a week or so while I was in Turkey that time — I know, I usually don’t complain about the heat but that’s cause in the US we have so many coping mechanisms. The heat was cumulative for me. The abundance of air conditioning makes it easy for us to recharge in the US. We also have massive amounts of ice to really chill our drinks.

By the time I had been in Turkey two weeks, I really craved a truly cold drink. Something that had been chilled a long time in a fridge and then was served over ice. That happened for the firs time in Antalya! Here’s a photo of the waiter who brought me that untold joy.

 

Still like my drinks really cold… Headed to the refrigerator now to get a cold drink over ice!

Sharing is caring!

0 shares
  • Share
  • Tweet
  • LinkedIn


travel

« A Tour or Two… Maybe Half a Dozen Tours of Graceland
How did you work before e-mail? The Pre-Internet Office »

Get new posts via email!

Check out my new podcast! In your fave app!

Recent Posts

  • Thinking about Memphis Schools, the Memphis 13 for Black History Month
  • Observing Martin Luther King Day Way Before It was a National Holiday
  • That Time of Year When Good Boots Come to Mind
  • National Farmers Day & Looking at Food Differently this Weekend
  • “They Look Like Trees” Documentary Premieres in Cincy

Blogging Series

agricututre a to z
farms a to z
st louis a to z

On Hundred Percent Cotton

cotton 101

Thinking about Memphis Schools, the Memphis 13 for Black History Month

Observing Martin Luther King Day Way Before It was a National Holiday

good-boots-Kuru-Quest-Boots

That Time of Year When Good Boots Come to Mind

This blog is part of the communications efforts by JPlovesCOTTON LLC.
COPYRIGHT © 2021 · GROUNDED COMMUNICATIONS, LLC · PRIVACY POLICY
0 shares