Today 13 of us were off to Bodrum for the Greek islands sailing part of the trip. We have a great little group all the boys on our big your group bar one is coming to Greece so it's evened out the huge amount of girls we did have. Gavin's already decided the other group we are joining up with will be w***ers,that or we were worried we'd get a tour group of Asians haha hopefully not,we had a laugh over it.
So 5 hr bus trip :( but gives me time to catch up on my blogs so I'm up to date.

We got to bodrum and got taken to the boat and far out!its amazing it's 4 levels the bedrooms are heaps roomy,have our own toilet and shower,has beds on the top two decks to sleep outside at night,it's in really good condition,loving it!
We met our new tour leader she was really nice,Greek background a little harder to understand the Baris but still fluent. In the arvo we had a meet abd greet with everyone and gained 11 kiwi girls and a couple of other girls. Then we had free time before dinner so out group went to the beach then ash and I went shopping. Iv decided with the help of ashs idea I'm going to buy a charm from each country to make up a charm bracelet. It's small something meaningful and I can probably find a charm in every country.
Bought a little Turkish eye charm to kick start my collection.

Then we raced back to the boat to quickly get ready to go out for dinner with the tour. Our tour leader took us to this amazing restaurant on the beach so we were sitting literally on the sand or I call it rocks,with a sunset and castle in the background.
After dinner we went back to the boat for drinks before heading out to party. Iv established my calf muscles are killing me everyday from the hours of dancing and jumping around on my toes. Had a good night and slept for my first night on a boat!

Though I should do a sum up of "turkey" as it's my last night in turkey

~Cons~
-always having to buy bottled water
-I swear they have never heard of concrete everything is paved with stones,murdered my feet
-getting stomach cramps due to something I ate or drank
- don't sell Vegemite ..hmm
-can't put toilet paper in toilet only in bin
-squat toilets
~Pro's~
- amazing historical sights with heaps of ancient history that I didn't expect from turkey
-beautiful beaches
- always sunny
-very clean country,they always wash the pavements and sweep and pick up rubbish
-shisha!
-Turkish floor sitting areas
-good transport systems
-yum food
-felt safe in turkey,didn't feel there was a threat of pick pockets or overall dodgy people
-friendly helpful people
-so many different things to do and see
-stays light and warm till 8/9 at night
-overall awesome cultural experience

Oh and I always got introduced to bum washers or as its properly called a bidet,I'm yet to use it..strangest thing.

Check the picture for the blog it's a map of where we are going/been started in Istanbul followed the red line to Ephesus then black from Ephesus to Pamukkale then orange from Pamukkale to bodrum and all the Greek island with the small black line.

Tomorrow we sail to Kos,Greece!
Over and out xx