Endless Summer In my first notebook entry, I had said that I had a wonderful summer time this year and had lots of things to write about my vacations. One of my vacations this summer was to Kaş with my husband and our friends during the Ramadan Feast in July. Kaş is a small country which is located between Dalaman and Antalya. We reached there from Dalaman Airport by car after driving for two hours. We stayed in a little hostel located very close to Küçükçakıl area and it takes only 2 minutes walking to the beach. There are two wonderful beaches in Kaş called Kaputaş and Patara and you can see caretta carettas while they are swimming there. I am uploading a photo of my husband and me here which we took in Kaputaş Beach. So you can see that amazing place. The water was very clear and we could take also some photos and videos under water. Yes, one of our friends had an underwater camera and it was very useful. We had an all day boat tour in Kaş and traveled lots of coves and swam too much. Yağlıca Cove and Kekova are my favorite locations that we went during the tour. The peach ice cream which is sold in Kekova was very delicious. At nights, we spent time in ginmills, tasted some sea food, side dish and drank raki. We had an enjoyable time and very relaxing holiday.

After the summer September has already came, but I am still dreaming about the summer gone away. This summer, my husband and I have had several vacations to Northern Cyprus, Kaş, Bodrum, Datça, Ölüdeniz/Fethiye and Selimiye. All of them are amazing locations and should be seen! This is my first entry on italki.com and I am not sure that in what order I write my memories about these vacations. Maybe, I should start from the first vacation that was to Northern Cyrprus on 1st May which is a very beginnig of summer. We flew from Istanbul to Lefkosa and got in a bus from the airport and reached to our hotel located in Magosa. Magaso is a bit far away from the airport and our journey takes approximately one and a half hours. A staff welcomed us when we arrived to the hotel. We waited at the lobby while our check-in transactions were completing. Our hotel was fancy and comfortable and it was decorated inspiring from ancient rome. There were a lot of sculptures and a big decorative pool that also included some sculptures of ancient people in premises of the hotel. After the check-in transactions, the staff took us to our room. The room was very close to the beach and we could watch sea from balcony of the room and walk to the beach easily. The beach and sea was amazing! We walked all along the seaside and took some photos and videos. You can check out my instagram profile to see our vacation photos (my instagram username is yaprakbaris), I will also upload here one of them. It was very beginning of summer, thus the sea water was very cold! I could only stand in water for only 2-3 minutes at every turn. However, the water was very clean and clear. It was a great experience to swim there :) There was also a swimming pool, but we didn't need to swim in it. The weather was fine for sun bathing, we suntaned a little bit. Additionally, there were a group who were playing beach volleyball and I joined to that group and had a great time. The hotel had a casino and it was the only activity to do at nights. We tried our chance and played with slot machine. Sure, we could not gain any thing but it was not problem because we lost a small amount of money. It was a funny night, we enjoyed much. That's all for now, I will continue to write about our vacations this summer. See you,