It's the famous Mick and Trudie !
Life is beautiful!
Special orange!
This is like gozleme heaven!
Then marry me!
I genuinely cannot believe how big this market is!
We're Marianne and Chris and we've been traveling full time since May 2018.
we must be insane!
Whilst attempting to drive around the world in Trudy our home on wheels this happened ...
All British travellers abroad are advised, advised to return now.
As borders closed around us,
we decided to wait it out in Turkey until we were able to continue our adventure East
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We've arrived in Fethiye which is in the south western part of Turkey in the province of Mugla,
124 miles west of Antalya and two hours south of Marmaris.
And the closest airport to Fethiye is Dalaman which is only about 50 minutes away.
So in this episode we're going to show you around the town of Fethiye.
We arrived last night we had actually a really warm welcome because we met
up with Mick Scarsbrook and his wife Trudie,
those guys also have a youtube channel and they came down to see us where we parked up,
we've had loads of messages saying that we have to meet some people ....
when we get to Fethiye and they're here ! Yay it's the famous Mick and Trudie !
Nice to meet you! that's great ! Thank you very much for coming, we feel like we know you already! likewise.
It's so good isn't it? and there's Trudy the van behind you !
and there's Trudie here! yeah absolutely! there you go, although we spelt it differently,
because you're spelled with an 'ie' and we're spelled with a 'y'
Why did you call the van Trudy? my niece, named the van ! Trudy the Tread van!
because she said it sounds kind of cool Uncle Chris
It's just got a ring to it!
We're actually gonna meet up with
Mick on Friday and they're going to give us a little guided tour of Old town Fethiye
and some other local areas, I think the Lycian tombs which are also famous here in Fethiye.
But today we're excited because we're going to start our tour of Fethiye by going
to the market, you know we love markets!
It's Tuesday morning which means it's market day here in Fethiye!
So let's go and see what they've got.
Okay we've arrived at the entrance to the market here in Fethiye,
so we're going to go and see what we can find, hopefully something for lunch, because I'm starving as usual!
So there's actually two market days here in Fethiye, Tuesday market and Friday market
and it basically starts from about nine o'clock in the morning and goes on all day.
On Tuesday they sell everything from clothes that you can see around us now,
to fruit and vegetable and local treats. On Friday what they offer is just fruit and vegetables.
So if you're looking for food Friday is probably the day you get more choice,
and it's quite a big market ...... it's huge!
Loads and loads of household bits, as well children's clothes,
adults clothes, and it's nice because on the road
we don't carry too many clothes, haha and you can get clothes, not baby clothes!
We don't need any of those, no thank you ! none of that nonsense!
There we've got loads of cool signs in this shop here.
One things in Fethiye is English is very commonly used, you will find people here who can speak English in the markets, or on the streets and in restaurants,
because Fethiye attracts lots of British people
here every year, in fact there's loads of fellow Brits that actually live here in Fethiye.
Your English is better than mine! yeah! Are you English? No I'm Turkish .... all right mate!
Nice ... soft cotton - Turkish Cotton
That's beautiful
So we've just arrived at this stand, that sells 'Nar' which is Turkish for pomegranate.
And the best one! oh super, and they're actually squeezing the juice fresh here,
fresh yes, so i think we should try it - I think it would be rude not to try it ! What is rude?
No in England we say "it would be rude not to" because if you made the energy and the effort to make something so beautiful .... we should try it!
It is a very polite way to say it ! there you go.
Your English is very good!
I born in England! oh really? which part ?Essex, okay ....
I am joking ha ha ha - I have learned it in the market.
So they make two types of drink, freshly squeezed pomegranate juice
and then they do one that they mix with freshly squeezed orange juice.
So we thought we'd have to try both, just to see which one's best!
and we've worked up a bit of a thirst walking around the market today.
Yeah firstly you can try it okay.
Another one we don't mix
okay so we share this one first, so this is pure pomegranate juice,
I've never had pure pomegranate juice before, is it good? oh is it really sweet?
Marianne's choking it's gone down the wrong way!
Oh that is delicious, yeah nice and healthy! and are the pomegranates from local?
yeah local from our garden! Oh you grow them? Yes, amazing!
Look at that!
Wow it's got huge pips!
That is a huge pomegranate, this is delicious!
This is pomegranate and orange juice, or is it mandarin?
Oh mandarin
It is sweeter yes that's really sweet, nice! That's really nice, because pomegranate is quite sharp,
but with added the mandarin it levels up the sweetness, this is
beautiful, this is very beautiful! what is beautiful? Thank you .... life is beautiful!
Thank you ! Oh it's a bad catch! one handed is never good!
look at all these spices, this is very good, can you remember the names of all of them?
Yes, ginger, turmeric .....
The oranges in Turkey are so sweet!
mmm that really sweet, really good! oh we've got a we've got a special one here
special orange from your house
goodbye Mr Amazon!
All this veg here look beautiful!
look at the size of those celeriac!
Potatoes, all this fruit and veg, is just absolutely amazing!
Oh the smell, i can smell food now!
hello hello oh cheese ...
A serious amount of cheese! look at all this !
I just love all the olives and cheeses and as you're walking through,
you can really start to smell the food and i'm definitely getting more and more hungry!
Hungry? it's surprising how you just get drawn into the smells !
I just drifted off there, just dreaming about all the cheese and the olives!
There is literally so much fresh produce here, you know you definitely should come and check it out,
because there is so much stuff! Oh my god! Look how big it is! it's big! look at that!
Just when i thought we'd seen it all how big is this market! Rocket?
Look at all this greenery, I can't believe how big this place is !
It just goes on, as far as the eye can see!
I genuinely cannot believe how big this market is,
we started off walking around the clothes and house stuff area down here
and i thought that was probably it, and then we wandered down there and tried the pomegranate juice and then
behind me, it literally goes on all the way as far as the eye can see,
and then we've just come out again and although the sun's behind me going that way
it goes all the way back there and all the way back there,
and all the way down here.
We're in the food area now, so we're going to try and see if we can find something for lunch.
Yes please, maybe a gozleme there's always a good gozleme somewhere !
This is like gozleme heaven,
this whole part of the market has just got stand after stand of gozleme and kebabs and street food,
there's just so much stuff everywhere! Everywhere!
Pomegranate juice? Oh i just had one, it's very beautiful though
Turkish pancake, spinach, yellow cheese
and this one's made with corn flour? Yes, and this one is a gozleme?
my heart loves gozleme! I'm going to have one like this potato mixed with onion parsley?
Yellow cheese, onion? so much choice! I just want to say marry me and I can eat it everyday !
After a lovely walk around the market, there is something really dynamic and special about markets,
everyone's just so happy and cheerful and welcoming and really proud of their produce.
So we found one of the many gozleme places, they all look so good!
Chris is just filming the ladies making them fresh for us
and I've been directed to the back area where they're making the food, to a little table and chair
so we can sit down by the river and just eat our freshly made gozleme,
which is being made right there.
It's lovely watching them make the gozleme, you know some places they
don't put so much filling in, here they have definitely rammed the filling in,
and I am starving and can't wait to tuck in! It looks so good thank you!
chill, aubergine? oh yes please - thank you chef ! oh i get pickled chillies,
this is our lovely chef! that's table service, with a cup of tea, we are sat outside.
Aubergine and chilli
Pomegranate
I'm going to turn into a pomegranate today!
yeah we are having a high dose of vitamin c today, look at the weather we're so lucky.
We've got the weather, it has been quite temperamental for us hasn't it? it's warm in the sun it's warm
there's not many places in the middle of January you can say that! yeah.
But i love the pickles, look at this we got pickled chilies that we get to have whilst we're having our gozleme.
Oh pickled aubergine, what does a pickled aubergine taste like? I'm the one that loves vegetables.
It's pickly, oh it's quite hot and spicy!
So normally the chillis aren't too hot, maybe they are ? oh it's hot
No it's nice! that's because they came out the same pot as the chilis love!
oh my my mouth is melting ha ha !
lovely look at this gozleme
and you know what i say some of them don't have a lot of filling in
but look at this you can see it's absolutely rammed with filling
and it's lovely soft, slightly crispy.
Oh that's good, that tastes so good, cheese, spinach, parsley, some onions lightly toasted
and .... oh that's delicious, griddled, is that not one of the best gozleme?
that is definitely delicious! and it just smells so good.
I'm sorry about making you all hungry!
So all of that lunch costs just
four pounds and they tried to give us some pomegranates to go as well.
We have pomegranate juice, two teas, two gozleme and it's enough .... i'm very full!
Oh there's two turtles there, look! Oh there's another one down there!
there's loads of little turtles here, we've just been stood here ...
I've been trying to capture them on film.
Look there's another one, so we've wandered back down to the seafront
and there's a lovely marina here,
we're so lucky with this weather it's been quite cloudy the last couple of weeks
but the sun is definitely shining down on us right now!
And it also surprises me that there's snow-capped mountains overlooking Fethiye here.
We've walked all the way around from town
and we're just looking out to sea and there's so many boats out there!
And we're just walking through all these boats, it goes on forever, boat trips as you would expect
but there's a dive boat here where they take you out diving, it's got a real buzz,
it's actually feels a lot busier here than most places we've been to.
Yeah but it's also still incredibly quiet for a seaside holiday town,
it's lovely, they're doing up the gardens,
you can hear the streamers working, it's very well manicured down here.
We've parked near the McDonald's, there is a car park opposite McDonald's as a landmark,
which is near the market,
and this sort of whole waterfront by the main centre of town where we parked seems to be all the tour boats and the trips out.
Actually looking behind you look there's even more
snow up there, there's a lot of snow i just can't believe it.
But they've got all these lovely cafes and places along the seafront.
We just need them to open, so we can sit and enjoy them.
You know the waterfront places here, and the eateries here
in Turkey are starting to ease up a little bit.
So hopefully in the next month or so, things will start to open, there's lots of dive boats
there's another one here, that's a big dive boat ..... that's a massive dive boat!
We've just come to this huge square with the 'I love Fethiye' sign at the end
and this is great, people are rollerblading
just enjoying this wonderful weather that we're having.
I am regularly the source of a lot of entertainment for Chris!
Because I'm always asking him to film a puppy, or a kitten, or a butterfly or a flower!
Look at these trees! some clever person out there will know what this is?
I was going to what breed it is, but it's a plant or a tree, so it's not a breed at all !
But look at this, they're dotted all the way around the square, that is an attractive tree!
They've also got a really good network of cycle paths in blue here around the town.
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