Oludinez, Turkey

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th September

Well, as turned out, we liked Kadir's hostel in Olympus and stayed 3 nights. Breakfast and evening meal were included in the price; It's like a skool canteen in that you go along a line with a plate and the staff serve you, and we were pleasantly surprised that that all the food was excellent, especially considering there were about 100 other people staying. They have a few dorms and chalets, but most of us camped out the back. The first night the music was loud but i stuck me earpluigs in and got to sleep ok.

Friday, we walked down to the beach. You have to pay for the beach because to get there you have to go past some ruins so its a national park. Seems a bit dogy but its only a couple of bucks. And the beach, despite some pebbles, is fanstastic. The mountains slope right down to the beach, so you have the med infront of you and lovely mountains behind. The water is mostly warm, no blue bottles or sharks to attack you and gentle rolling waves.

At dinner we were reunited with tour guide Summer who had gone back to the U.S. for a while after the middle eastern countries wouldn't let Americans in. After dinner we went to the pub next door where the drinks are about half the price they are at the hostel, and celebrated Jes's 19th birthday. This involved drinking and drinking games and wearing eachother's clothes, as you do. Later we went back to the hostel, which has a nightclub. Not necessarily my cup of tea these days, but it was almost like a rave and we were all fairly hammered by then so there was lots of crazy dancing and messing around until 2am then sitting on the volleyball chatting for another hour.

Saturday
So of course there were a few sore heads in the morning and you can't stay in your tent with the blasting in. So i lay on the comfy sofas in the upstairs bar until i could eat, at about 10am. Great breakfast. They served omelette and fresh tomatoes and cucumber and boiled eggs and rocket lettuce and fetta cheese. We sat around lazy for most of the day, just hanging out, grilled cheese on bread for lunch. Around 3 we headed to the beach and had another great swim. I feel very lucky to go to such places as Olympus, the hostel is a bit tacky and full of backpackers but the beach itself was great. After dinner we went out to the cactus bar to watch a live band. They were good but i was a bit over it and left midway through. Sleep!

Sunday.
9:30am departure. Plan was to go to another beach along the med coast. The scenery today was stunning, up and down and through he mountains that hug the coastline. Long winding road right next to the sea, which made us just want to jump in. So it was a bit of a diasappointment when we just arrived here at Sugarbeach, Oludinez, to find that it is next to a Lagoon, the sea and a beach are nowhere to be seen, and the other guests are a fair bit older than us. Oh well, can find the beach tomorrow.

Monday
It's all good. Sat round with the sheesha and strawberry tobacco last night, then took my whiskey and sprite to the bar; beer is silly expensive. This is a full-on resort. We walked into town today, lovely beach and mountains, English breakfast in every restaurant and English tabloid newspapers - good to know that Rooney's sex life is the most important headline. Anyway, had a fun time on the beach and in the sea, bigger waves today! And a few too many middle-aged topless ladies. Kebab for lunch then back to the beach.