{"id":2087,"date":"2014-08-08T10:05:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T09:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2014-08-08T12:50:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T11:50:19","slug":"selimye-koyu-and-bozburun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=2087","title":{"rendered":"Selimye Koyu and Bozburun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercier is sailing in beautiful waters, crystal clear and warm, along the Bozburun Peninsula. \u00a0 \u00a0On Tuesday, we sailed into the marina of Selimye, a striking little village full of boats and holiday makers.The weather is very hot and water is the key to being comfortable. Jumping into the bay to cool down or turning on the hose on the jetty, or water in the form of ice are saviors in this sort of weather.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2091\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2091\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/P1050100-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2091\" src=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/P1050100-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Wednesday morning swimming hole\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/P1050100-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/P1050100-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/P1050100-640x480-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wednesday morning swimming hole<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We decided to explore the town and have lunch saving a salad dinner for on board Mercier later in the evening. \u00a0It can be too hot to eat at night. The village is full of shops, green grocers, restaurants and pensione or as they are known in Turkey, pansiyon.\u00a0After wandering around town, we stopped at a lovely cafe attached to a pansiyon.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #5e5e5e;\">Nane Limon Pansiyon had a swimming platform and cafe in the midst of Hellenic ruins, with tables, couches, lounges and a hammock between the fig trees.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2092\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2092\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/P1050093-640x320.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2092\" src=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/P1050093-640x320.jpg\" alt=\"Selimiye \" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/P1050093-640x320.jpg 640w, https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/P1050093-640x320-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/P1050093-640x320-500x250.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2092\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Selimiye<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Wednesday morning, we continued down the Bozburun peninsula, to the village of Bozburun. \u00a0There is a small marina there but it looked a bit noisy and hot so we tried moving back out to the mouth of the harbour where there are several restaurants with boat moorings available, the breeze was fantastic and so was the view. \u00a0The arrangement is that you stay on the mooring or stern to on the restaurant&#8217;s quay and have dinner. \u00a0I am perplexed as to how they don&#8217;t have a minimum spend but they haven&#8217;t seemed to thought of it yet. Hotel Aphrodite was a very good mooring, much cooler than being in the main part of town and there are a couple of other nice restaurants nearby.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2094\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2094\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_1068-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2094\" src=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_1068-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"James at the Hotel Aphrodite\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_1068-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_1068-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_1068-640x480-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James at the Hotel Aphrodite<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2093\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2093\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/P1050096-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2093\" src=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/P1050096-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Selimiye \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/P1050096-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/P1050096-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/P1050096-640x480-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2093\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Selimiye<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We are sailing over to the ancient town of Loryma, down the Carian Coast. \u00a0Compared to sailing in Greece and Croatia, we see incredible numbers of beautiful boats here. In a few days we will meet Rene and Richard in Marmaris.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercier is sailing in beautiful waters, crystal clear and warm, along the Bozburun Peninsula. \u00a0 \u00a0On Tuesday, we sailed into the marina of Selimye, a striking little village full of boats and holiday makers.The weather is very hot and water is the key to being comfortable. Jumping into the bay to cool down or turning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=2087\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Selimye Koyu and Bozburun<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,48,7,6,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-2","category-antiquities","category-dreams","category-travel","category-turkey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VxXq-xF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2098,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions\/2098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}