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Kalkan Discussion => Weather => Topic started by: onelove on January 09, 2018, 05:31:33 AM
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We arrived at Dalaman on the evening of 3rd Jan in the pi**ing rain, not the best start !
Thursday was cloudy but dry to start off with. We went to Aqua for dinner and the rain was Sooo loud bouncing off the restaurant roof (is was quite busy in Aqua, must of been at least 20 people in). It rained all night. Our garden must of really enjoyed it. Saturday was lovely and sunny and that is how it’s been since. The last 3 days have been amazing weather wise, it’s been glorious 8). We have sat or laid on sun beds outside while reading. In the direct sun it’s been very warm even hot (red faces prove this)
Sat now watching the sun creep over the mountains so hopefully it’s going to be another lovely day.
It’s a tough life !!!
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I have been watching the temperatures over the past couple of days - amazing weather!
Hope it continues to rise for you & until March for us!
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It looks like May in our garden. Roses and bougainvillea in full bloom. It's time to change into sunbathing clothes again.
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Another amazingly hot day today. Forecast saying even hotter tomorrow 👍😎🇹🇷
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If I was to sit out in my garden some things would poke out and others would shrink!!!!!
Brrrrrrrrr >:D ::)
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Too much information! Xx
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So much for weather forecasts......warm, cloudy & dry today but, to be fair, not to shabby 🤪
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Well you seem to have put the 'mockers' on this morning onelove, but at least the winds have eased.
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Yeah DRBD, we having a very mixed day weather wise today. Cloudy & grey but dry first thing this morning, then a little shower about 9’clock. Now 2:50 local time & patio is bathed in sunshine.
Very very mild 👍
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I guess if I were in Kalkan right now I wouldn't mind if the weather wasn't warm and sunny every day. Its pretty rotten at home - cold and miserable most days with the odd day having lovely blue skies and sunshine but absolutely freezing.
Enjoy!
What's the exchange rate like, onelove?
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I got 5.1 in the bank today 👍
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Today.....amazing 🇹🇷😎🌞
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Not the greatest day yesterday weather wise. Cloudy & wet first thing. Then dried up for a while until later in the day when it rained & rained. Had a ‘small’ lightning show early evening which we Always love to watch. Again, very mild.
This morning it’s cloudy, calm and again very mild. We went for a walk first thing (8:30) and I had to take off my jumper, got quite a sweat up.
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After the morning clouds cleared yesterday we have a beautiful sunny day, albeit, to bit of a breeze in the afternoon.
This morning we were just about to go in our regular walk around town but as it was such a lovely bright morning so we decided to go to Patara instead for a walk. Great shout. Got there @ about 8:45 just as the sun was slowly raising over the mountain to the left as you enter the beach from the boardwalk. Wow, what an amazing beautiful place Patara is on a bright sunny winters morning. We walked for 30 mins then turned around and walked back, not another person (or dog !) in sight. We stopped off on the way home for a cay, ahhhh, just perfect.
For the rest of the day we have had clear blue sky’s, not a cloud in sight & wall to wall sunshine. Prob the best day, weather wise, so far.
A bit of shopping then a late lunch eaten by the pool. Then sat outside reading, just come in now as the sun starts to lose its strength about this time ..17:30
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Cloudy this morning but, still very mild. Went walking in just a t-shirt but still got a sweat going. Cloudy all day with a few very light showers later on. This evening was a tad chilly (let’s get ‘chilly’ right, chilly for Kalkan that is) had to blast the air con on heat for 1/2 an hour.
Prob the worst day weather wise since we arrived on the 3rd. Even so don’t think I’ll be scraping ice of the windscreen tomorrow morning 🤪
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Yesterday morning started of very cloudy so we decided to take a drive to Fethiye as we needed to buy a few things for the villa. Plus wanted to go to the New ‘Metro’ cash & carry. Great shop 👍
Anyway back to the weather. The cloud soon cleared and we were treated to another sunny mild/warm day.
Last night the heavens opened and it was VERY windy. It was still raining & windy when I got up @ 6 😩. 11:30 now and the rain has nigh-on stopped but the wind is ‘Crazy’ time to batten down the hatches.
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Weather never got any better today... cloudy, wet & windy, but not to crazy like last night.
Aircon on on heat @ 17:30. We must be getting soft as it’s not really that cold at all :-))
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Hi onelove
Do you have to have a business card to use the Metro cash and carry?
TIA
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No you don’t need one Chrissy. You just need money 🤪
There is another cash & carry in Fethiye called Tespo you do need a card there though.
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We had a Very windy, wet night last night. The wind was So loud it kept us awake most of the night, it was howling 😩
This morning we still have the wind but, nothing like last nights 👍. The rain has stopped.
Now, 10:30, we have a beautiful sunny 🌞 morning with clear blue sky’s, albeit, the wind has a slight chill to it, so it’s C f K (Chilly for Kalkan)
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Quite a bit of fresh snow on the mountain tops too, out in the open the wind is icy but the sun is beautiful.
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You’ve been here to long DRBD.....icy !!! Me thinks not 🤪
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I agree with DBRD - OneLove - it WAS an icy wind!! :) :)
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Couple of lightweights you two 😂
I was out walking early this morning and as I have said it was C f K... but icy, nothing like it imho 🤔
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Thanks Felicity.....think One love walks in sheltered places😉😉
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How the weather can change in 24 hours ! This morning it’s lovely (not C f K like yesterday morning 🤪) We set off for our walk around Kalamar @ 8:20. As we walked down our road the sun was just raising above the mountains, so beautiful 😍
After 30 mins (about half way) I had to take my hoodie off as ‘I’ was quite warm.
Once back home I drove into Kalkan to get some bread for breakfast. Kalkan is much quieter this winter, as nowhere as much building work going on as a couple of years ago, just the way we like it 👍.
The sun has now given way to clouds (11:30) and rain is forecast for later. Still very mild for end of Feb when compared to the uk.
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How the weather can change in 24 hours ! This morning it’s lovely (not C f K like yesterday morning 🤪) We set off for our walk around Kalamar @ 8:20. As we walked down our road the sun was just raising above the mountains, so beautiful 😍
After 30 mins (about half way) I had to take my hoodie off as ‘I’ was quite warm.
Once back home I drove into Kalkan to get some bread for breakfast. Kalkan is much quieter this winter, as nowhere as much building work going on as a couple of years ago, just the way we like it 👍.
The sun has now given way to clouds (11:30) and rain is forecast for later. Still very mild for end of Feb when compared to the uk.
You're only 3 hours ahead, Onelove, not 4 weeks 😝😝😜
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May only be 3 hours pw but, a different world as far as I’m concerned 👍🇹🇷
The forecasted rain never materialised so we had another mild, dry day with intermittent sunshine. Not to shabby at all.
This morning it’s very mild again first thing. There were big black clouds over the mountains but these have now cleared and we have 70% clouds with the sun breaking through in parts.
The forecast is rain & cloudy for the next few days but, let’s wait and see 🤔
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Yesterday turned out ok, cloudy but mild.
Now last night was a totally different story !!!
At nigh-on bang-on midnight it started to rain (I was reading in bed, as you do, or maybe you don’t 🤪) About 1/2 an hour later the thunder & lightening started & what a show it was, wow ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Now I know at my age my memory is not quite what it once was but, I can’t remember hearing thunder so loud or seeing lightening so bright. One of the highlights for me and the wife here in Kalkan in the winter is thunder storms, they are really something to behold. It seems to go on for hours and at stages I could of sweared the storm was in our bedroom it was that crazy but, equally amazing. Not a lot of sleep last night 😩 as I’m sure was the case for a lot of people in Kalkan.
This morning it was ☔️☔️☔️ Cloudy, grey and windy, then 20 mins later it was bright, dry and calm.... in short we have had just about it all today weather wise. If any of you have ever been to Calgary your understand how ‘quick’ the weather can change there, similar here today.
The other day we had decided to pop into town for a late lunch, early dinner. We had heard good reports about a new Burger restaurant that has opened so we parked the car by the taxi rant and set off to find it, glad we did 😋🍔. I won’t try to explain where it is exactly, suffice to say it’s basically in the center of the old town.
The restaurant is called ‘Ohannes Burger’ and its well worth a visit if you like that sort of thing 👍. Got talking to the owner Ebo who used to work at Fener (we have Known him for about 5/6 years) turns out it’s a franchise, by all accounts there are 6 of them in Izmir.
Talk about value for money (great selection on burgers + more) we ordered 2 burgers, a 90gm classic burger (for oh) and I had the 130gm Swiss. Both came with the normal Kalkan presentation, served on a wooden board. We did not order chips but when the burgers arrived with chips we were told all burgers come with chips ( love Kalkan but the place plays havoc with the buttons on my jeans 🐷😩.
So cost, 2 burgers & chips, 2 cokes, 1 cay came to the pricey sum of £9.50. Eaten outside in one of Kaljans quaint back streets, it’s all about location ! After we had finished eating offered comp coffee, says it 👍
How much would you pay for 2 coffees in Starbucks/Costa ?
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Ohannes is a great place to collect a takeaway too - a good selection of burger and chicken dishes and very tasty chips! Such good value!
Think its going to be another wet and windy night,although I always sleep through the lot.
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Ear plugs for us amber 😂
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Love a good Kalkan thunderstorm - the sound of loud thunder reverberating around the mountains & the lightening reflecting over the sea is stunning!
I remember once leaving a dinner party at a friends villa, during a big storm & literally running through warm torrential rain to our apartment - I swear the lightening struck the ground behind us - terrifying, but exhilarating at the same time!
Enjoying your updates Hope to see a few storms in March!
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Cloudy start this morning. But sun came out and it turned out to be a lovely sunny, very warm day 🇹🇷😎☀️
Spent entire afternoon sat on our terrace reading.
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Well after another wet night & sounds of thunder, the rained stopped & the cloud etc cleared for us to see a light covering of snow on the mountains above Kalkan. Some market traders had a fire going in the road earlier, not seen that before. Really icy breeze blowing now.
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We’ve lit our wood burner for the first time during the daytime since we arrived at the beginning of January. Not felt cold enough before today.
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Will be doing likewise in a minute♨♨♨
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I said in one of my earlier posts that if any one has ever been to Calgary they will prob know how fast the weather can change, well, at the moment Kalkan is giving Calgary a run for its money. If you don’t remember please keep up 🤪
Went on our early morning walk yesterday, 100% cloud cover and a bit of a chill in the air, C f K that is 🤪 but nothing like freezing I have to say.
That said I agree with Tatilde, it was the chilliest it’s been since we arrived back at the beginning of Jan. Gas fire 🔥 on for a couple of hours, sorted.
We decided to drive to Kas for a walk about and maybe a late lunch, early din dins.
Driving down the main Kas ‘high street’ my wife spotted a new shop (for Kas) from about 200 yards, Waikiki, she shouted, I slammed the brakes on & we stopped on the spot, lucky no one was behind us, just imagine telling the police why I had caused a pile up 😱
For those that don’t know, Wiaklkl is a (national) unisex clothes shop here in Turkey. I have to admit I DONT do shopping of ANY sort back home but when I’m here I love it and I love Wiaklkl. They have a great range off stuff for men, women & kids and the prices are amazing. An hour later I stagger out of the shop laden down with bags 😂 all for £45 👍
We wandered around the shops down by the harbour for an hour or so but not that much open to be honest, albeit, a bit more than Kalkan. We decided to eat, but where 🤔. Most of the restaurant’s were all but empty except a new one (for us) called Noel BaBa that was nigh-on full, got to be good we thought. There is an inside area but 90% of customers were sat outside as the temp had gone up significantly since this morning. We were not surprised it was so busy (won’t 😴 with what we had) we had a starter to share, to mains, 3 glasses of wine (oh, not me, the driver 🙄) & 3 cays....96tl or approx £18. Again, great food at amazing prices 👍🇹🇷
As has already been said we had a wet, windy night which was how it stayed until mid-morning when the rain stopped and temp went up later on, so, for us, mild again (13c on th car dash)
Going back to this morning. I have been watching the exchange rate for a while now as we need to cash up a fair bit of dosh as we are having ‘more’ work carried out at our villa, as any owner will tell you, it never stops 😢. So seeing that I had to change up some dosh and that the rate (first thing this morning) was around 5.26ish I decided to take the plunge so off I went to Deniz bank. I was that keen, their first customer of the day, got to love a deal.
I handed my money over and said ‘exchange & take money’ when the girl cashier saw the exchange rate she smiled and said ‘fantastic rate’ 5.34 wow. Wish I could say things like that in Turkish 🙄🙄🙄. She even told her colleagues who were just as surprised 😳
It’s the highest rate I have ever got in the 10 years we have been coming to Kalkan, Turkey. Is it a historical high ? I don’t know 🤔
Anyway back to the weather. I came out of the bank with a pocket full of lira, feeling very pleased with myself when I nearly got knocked over by a transit covered in snow. It must be a lot colder up in the mountain villages ❄️⛄️
One of my sisters is coming out to see us tomorrow for a week and the forecast looks amazing ☀️☀️☀️ for the whole week, so fingers 🤞🤞🤞
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Hi Peeps,
Sorry for the (lengthy) interlude. One of my sisters decided to visit us out of the blue. She has now gone home, it wasn’t her choice, my liver demanded she left 😩
She Def hit the jackpot weather wise, it was proper amazing. She had wall to wall sunshine All the time she was here, lucky thing 👍
We spent a lovely day walking around Bezirgan village, organised by our good friends from KTLN towers. Meet some new lovely people which was nice 👍 Walked on Patara twice, then after stopped off in Patara village for tea & (lemon drizzle) cake @ Beanies. Well worth a visit if you get the chance, the homemade cake was delish 😋
I went for a walk around the old town today while the oh had her eyebrows ‘done’. It was Sooo quite, just the way I like it. It’s great the way nigh-on everyone you meet or walk past say hello, a simple little thing, but the small things in life ....!
Today was again Verg mild but for the first time it what seems ages the sun failed to appear 😱 I called the Mayor to complain, he said he was very sorry & would see what he could do for tomorrow, bless him 🤪
Laters...👋
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Wow, it was Very very warm today, not loads of Sun, very overcast in fact, but dry 👍
It was one of those days when you look out the window before you go out and think, I better stick a jumper on but as soon as you get outside you take it off. It’s just gone 8 now but still very mild outside.
Off to Fethiye tomorrow morning, want to do a bit of shopping in my fav place to shop ‘Erasta’ !, plus got a hospital appointment at the wonderful Esnaf hospital. Hoping to get an early start as we want to drive there via ‘Butterfly valley’ as we have heard it’s an amazing place to visit and an equally amazing drive over the mountains, fingers crossed we find it 🤞
Laters....
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Esnaf is wonderful and the care they provided to Brian after his heart attack was second to none. Love Fethiye too especially the walk along the front.