Turkey Part 1 (Bodrum) Day 63-79

Gundoğan is one of those towns, with 4000 people in the winter, and probably >20000 people in the summer. Basically, the only thing to do is go to the beach.

My grandparents live in Sydney, but come here every winter, to basically hibernate. Everyone on my mum's side of the family, is from Turkey (or should I say Türkiye), so we come here every year or two.

Most of the days we just relax and go to the beach. I love açma (pronounced ah-ch-ma). It is a kind of soft bread, shaped a doughnut, and it is my favourite food by far. I also like simit which is basically açma but thinner, and covered in sesame seeds. While we relax most days, some days are different. Like the day I met my grandma Sue's second cousins son? (or something like that). Let's just say a distant cousin, whose name is Finn, and he is 9. He was born in Australia, used to live in Canada, and now lives in Gümüşlük (Türkiye). He goes to school in Türkiye, knowing very little turkish, his least favourite subjects are English (I can see that) and PE. He says he has "annoying gym teachers" that make you feel like you're in the arm.

I should probably mention that during our stay in Gundoğan, school started back up after the summer holidays in Europe.

The ice cream in Turkey is also very different. There is like a slab of ice cream in a cone. You can't eat the ice cream normally either, as it is hard and cold, and freezes your teeth.

For the second week, mum and dad went to Paris for a conference, and then Amsterdam. They found a tony chocolonely factory, and Maya and I each got a custom bar.

Not much changed when they left. We bought floaters for the beach and went exploring really far out from shore.

We wet some of my grandparents friends, but that was about it.

The last day we stayed, we drove to the airport and flew to Frankfurt (Germany). They we flew another flight to Croatia. The funny thing was that when we were 1/3 of the way to Germany we passed over Croatia.