With love & Crystals : Reminiscing......

This time last year I had just finished my second year at university and en route to Turkey, with my best girl friend Nicci. we've been great friends since the age of 15. We decided to do a last minute holiday and were torn between Turkey and Tunisia, But we were persuaded to go to Turkey.

Me and Nicci <3

We ended up in a four star hotel all inclusive in Gumbet, Turkey. We went there for a relaxing holiday as we had both finished exams etc. Little did we know Gumbet was the hottest clubbing spot for holiday makers, with parties hosted by the 18-30s holiday club. It's fair to say our holiday went from a relaxing holiday, to nursing daily hangovers by the pool everyday. We had the most amazing time, we had a few incidents out there but i'm not going to dwell on them. we meet some amazing people, the scenery was beautiful, Turkey really is a magnificent place it's so picturesque. The weather was unbearable, we went expecting high 30's, the time we went Turkey decided to have a heatwave (typical) and arriving at Bodrum airport at 3am to 35 degrees heat was unbearable, especially when we left Bristol it was tipping down with rain and a four and a half hour flight didn't help either. We were then woken up by 50 degrees daily, even the staff were complaining!!!!!!!!!!! We did spend the majority of the time under the umbrella or asleep!! (heat made us so sleepy and the hangovers didn't help)
The bar and clubs were so much fun and really cheap, unfortunately they didn't stock Grey Goose of Moet, but we got over that (Just about). We were dancing on the bar, sipping fish bowls of cocktails and even dabbling with the local beer out there (eefes.... i think that's what its called). We managed a boat trip around the coast which was lush, even done a bit of snorkeling, the sea was crystal clear and lovely and cold to jump into. Food wise was difficult as I'm a vegetarian and the Turkish people were shocked that i didn't eat meat, which we found quite funny, Nicci is a meat eater but didn't eat meat the whole holiday as she was worried. We lived off pasta, salads etc.... we had a healthy holiday food wise!!!