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Bodrum Turkey Vacation I treated myself with a visit to Bodrum Turkey, which is a ferry trip away from Kos Island Greece. Just a normal ferry, not a cruise in one of those famous wooden Bodrum gulets… Being far far away I treated myself with an iced coffee: Bodrum Turkey style!
Bodrum Turkey coffee drink with whipped . . . → Read More: Where to drink the best iced coffee? The beach on Kos is an interesting tourist attraction: you can hire a chair as those on the right and get skin cancer thanks to the high dose of sun rays that are creeping through an ever diminishing ozone layer. But don’t let your appetite for the unspoiled Kos beach water stop you… According to a very . . . → Read More: Beach on Kos The highlight of my day these days happens to be in the late afternoon: after the lunch cleaning up and midday-break and just before rush-hour dinner time. It’s around “now” that I go out and have a cup of authentic Greek coffee. For the purists amongst us: Greek coffee is as Greek as French fries is French. . . . → Read More: Greek Coffee Euhm… I guess the good old fashion way… Yet to my utter amazement there is a well in Kos when you drink the water, you become pregnant. I did visit this well, yet since I don’t need any more kids, I stayed well away from the well In fact I was more interested in the . . . → Read More: How to get pregnant in Greece So on my educational trip around Kos Island learning about How to get pregnant in Greece and other Greek cultural activities, the highlight of my trip was of course being able to sample the Greek authentic food! … Greek fries (cannot call them French fries being on a typical gourmet trip in Kos Island, Greece), Greek omelet . . . → Read More: Greek Food Picture Did you know that hibiscus flowers are edible flowers? That’s what the self proclaimed cookingdiva told me today when I had a drink in her little tavern with a view over the Aegean Sea. According to her it’s best to serve the yellow and orangey coloured hibiscus flowers, as the taste reminds you a bit on . . . → Read More: Edible Flowers I got a call from Greece that they need some helping hand in the kitchen there… That’s good that they only need 1 hand, as my other hand has that not so useful arthritis finger… So it’s back to Kos pretty soon. For those who don’t know Kos: it’s a little island in the Aegean sea in . . . → Read More: Back to Kos Greece If you want to eat Turkish kebab with lots of French fries, then the best place to go is Kos Greece Just for the fun of it I ordered myself another "typical" Greek dish, well, maybe because I love the colours when you put hem on camera: yellow French fires, green cucumber and red tomatoes, . . . → Read More: Greek food picture These days Greece is paradise! Just imagine yourself sipping a cup of coffee in the shade of a tree, the weather not too hot and on top of that a cool sea-breeze. Clear blue sky, not to much of a crowd: peace and quite. Fresh sweet ripe melon to cool the pallet down… All you have to do is . . . → Read More: Come for a cup of coffee in Kos Tourist season is almost over here in Kos, which I find is the greatest time to visit Greece and any other place in the world: go when the tourists are gone and become a local between the locals… The Greek sky is still blue, I can’t imagine how the sky must look like in California. I come . . . → Read More: Come at ease at a Kos Beach If you are planning a visit to the beautiful Greek island of Mykonos, you must plan ahead if you are going during the summer especially for hotels (if you do not relish ending up sleeping on the beach!). For Hotels in Mykonos, you can get a wide selection online at fantastic.greece.com at great prices. It is . . . → Read More: Visit the beautiful Greek island of Mykonos Ok, I agree, this is a very small picture, but what can you do when you take a photograph of the smallest church in the world? Actually it’s not a real church, not even a chapel, it’s kind of a shrine next to the road. And only the people who put the shrine there will know . . . → Read More: The worlds’ smallest church Normally the tourist season in Kos ends this month in October, so I should get out of here in November as most of the overseas Greek do here. Yet with the temperatures still high, I wonder when we really are going to "close shop" for this season. Apart from the fires in Greece, the tourist season was . . . → Read More: Last coffee in Kos So I am nicely sipping my coffee in a local cafe at the seashore here in Kos and I see a guy snorkeling up down left right… Now as far as I have seen the waters near Kos, there are no corals here, so what the heck is he snorkeling about? Never mind, snorkeling is relaxing, so . . . → Read More: Help: a squid in my coffee! My ideal passing time here in Kos is jumping on a bike and drive to one of the many cafes, bars, pus, canteens… next to the seashore. I am not a real "fry me on a beach" person, since I am aware that skin-cancer is on the rise. Just give me a good old cup of . . . → Read More: Sipping coffee at the seashore Don’t you love those cute little Aegean houses in Kos? They are kind of ideal if you just come here to Kos to work or pass your vacation and you are on your own or a couple.
Example of old Aegean houses in Kos This is an old Aegean house because… it has a roof! . . . → Read More: Aegean houses Kos Lunchtime is just finished here in Kos, Greece so time to relax with a well deserved Although these Turkish coffee cups are quite tiny, I suppose I am still having a bigger coffee intake than when I drink normal coffee in normal cups. Anyway, it beats the . . . → Read More: Coffee break in Kos If you want to check out the hygiene of the kitchen of a restaurant, the best thing to do is have a look at their toilet. If the toilet is as clean as possible, chance is big the kitchen is in a similar condition (unless the owner of the restaurant red this post and has been working . . . → Read More: Greek tiles Talking about Greek music: I was just listening to the very popular Greek song of Gwen Stefani : if I was a rich girl Ok, Gwen Stefani is not Greek I know, but as I told you in my previous post: it’s not smart to start your early morning with ouzo So, if . . . → Read More: If I was a rich man Come to mention, I don’t know anything about Greek music, unless from nana Mouskouri, which must be the grandmother from all Greek music, if not the grandmother of all Greek Gods Ok, if you start drinking too much Ouzo, your imagination runs wild, especially when you don’t have a clue what you are talking about . . . → Read More: Greek Music Condolences to my Greek Cook in the streets What I was missing this year compared to the last time I was in Kos, was the old lady sitting in the street where I went for a little stroll each and every evening. Seems the old yet generous lady is no more, so this post is in honour . . . → Read More: Turkish delight recipe What’s cooking in Greece? You can compare Kos Island with 1 big Greek restaurant. Let me give you an in depth explanation of Greek food… Going to your Greek restaurant quite sums it up what you can eat here in Greece: meze or mezze. Mezze is the equivalent of tapas in Spain and antipasti in Italy yet with . . . → Read More: Restaurant Greek If you are in Kos Greece, you take the ferry to Bodrum to have this delicious breakfast: fresh "Turkish melon" with yogurt. Homemade yogurt: the yogurt you turn up side down and still sticks on your bowl!
homemade yogurt Ok, its not that "practical" to always take a ferry to get fresh yogurt, better get . . . → Read More: How to make yogurt
Just strolling around a fruit vendor in Bodrum: little fruit shop with at the right top the very sweet "Turkish melons" and at the bottom left big, sweet and dripping juicy peaches. There are 2 kinds of peaches I like: fresh peaches picked from a peach tree Technorati Tags: Greece | Greek Food . . . → Read More: Turkish fruit Bodrum realty
Bodrum realty… that’s what it said on the seats of the ferry to Bodrum. And it’s not exactly a cruise during the border formalities, but after that, it’s Now this is why I like to visit Kos Island: you can reach Kos Island by plane Do you love chocolate truffles like I do? Skinny or not, I am a die hard chocolate lover! Look at the pictures on the right and what do you imagine when you read the words Leonidas? Well, I tend to believe that Leonidas was a smart brand made by a Belgian chocolate maker to brand his fine . . . → Read More: Leonidas Belgian chocolates Planning a vacation to Europe this summer and needs help with hotel bookings and travel info? Europe Hotel Guide Section can provide you with useful information on European travel, photos, hotels, attractions and restaurants. London is a wonderful city not to be missed and every year millions of visitors throng the city for its historical sites, wonderful . . . → Read More: How to plan your Europe travel Why should you learn the Greek language? Because you can put a nice smile on Greek people because you try to speak their language. It’s an easy way to get appreciated and respected. The other thing you get is that they will start a whole conversation and then you it’s my turn to smile back at . . . → Read More: Learn Greek Language I said in a previous post Beach on Kos that according to a very old Kos tourist guide the Kos sewerage is flowing into the sea 8 km away from Kos, so … I hired a bike and biked off the beaten track to have a look at the Kos beach 8 km away from . . . → Read More: Sad beach on Kos What I love when on holidays is discovering things off the beaten track. In Kos, being a Greek Island therefore filled with old Greek cultural remnants, the first thing you notice is abandoned archeological sites. Then if you go for a walk, you can just find real old authentic Greek history just tucked away in an old . . . → Read More: Kos Cultural Heritage Being an island, of course you can expect Kos to cater a lot of beaches for tourists. Being in Greece, the cultural heritage also attracts tourists. Although I have the feeling for the Greek inhabitants in Kos, these old ruins are just a bunch of old stones quite in the way of doing something decent with it. Take . . . → Read More: Map of Kos
Greek Beer… or so I think… Blinded by thirst what I see in Belgium: each beer has its own glass. So I saw this nice beer glass and I thought: gosh, finally some real beer in Greece! Turns out that it was yet again another lager beer, and reading the label closely: since it . . . → Read More: Greek beer Just be warned that the food you eat in your local Greek restaurants could be more tastier than the food served in Kos restaurants!
Greek Food Pictures… Get the picture? It’s exactly like what they cater in your local Greek restaurants! Or even worse: you never have seen so many French fries as on a menu . . . → Read More: Greek Food Picture White houses everywhere, cats everywhere, bicycles everywhere (quite fun and relaxing and cheap to hire) and of course: hibiscus flowers everywhere I must have taken al lot of hibiscus flowers already… well, call me homesick: hibiscus is the national flower of Malaysia, where the food is good and life is cheap. But you need . . . → Read More: Why all the Greeks look retired? When it comes to ingenious toilet paper dispensers, I was a bit shocked when I saw the common Greek way of having a toilet paper dispenser…
Toilet Paper Dispenser Greek Style… Now it’s not that we are using cheap toilet paper here: I have seen toilet paper holders with both wholesale toilet paper as with nicely . . . → Read More: Greek toilet paper dispenser Since I am far away from home here in hot and touristy Kos without much aircon to go about, my wife told me to remember her working trip to Antarctica where it was all but hot! Seems when I am not at home, my wife has much free time on her hands, as she is finally dotting . . . → Read More: Traveling to Antarctica For a travel guide based on real experiences by real people go to realtravel.com. This is a travel guide and trip planner powered by advice from real travelers. The Editors Picks have all the best travel experiences, photos and recommendations from the community of RealTravel for people who love traveling and do it passionately. You can discover . . . → Read More: The worlds’ best travel guide ever!  Leave a comment  Australia, Belgium, Bodrum, Bodrum Turkey, Bulgaria, Buzz, China, Costa Rica, Cruises, Cultures, Daily Kos, Elba, England, Greece, Greek Food Picture, Hawaii, Hotels in Malaysia, Italy, Japan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Malaysian Food, Malaysian restaurants, Misc, Philippines, Planet Food, Restaurants, Reviews, Singapore, Spain, Taiping, Taste of Home, Thailand, Travel, Travel Jersey City, Turkey, Tuscany, USA, Vietnam Remember in my previous post about hibiscus pictures, I said that for all the places to visit I like the most for taking hibiscus pictures are Hawaii, Greece, Turkey and Malaysia? The hibiscus flowers on the left are taken in Kos Island Greece. Although we all know Greece from the blue and white postcards: white houses with . . . → Read More: Hibiscus tree No Starbucks coffee or any other coffee franchise here in Kos Greece. Yet it’s a cold (12 degrees) gray day, and I was in need of a very strong hot cup of coffee! Nothing else to do here basically… Turkish coffee Greek coffee, cal it what you want, but it looks like this:
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