Saturday morning, and the floor fitter arrives early to finish off the skirting boards. This is quite an involved task and requires lots of cutting. It’s raining first thing, but by 11 the skies have cleared and the sun is back. I make lunch for the three of us of doner wraps, and by three, the work is nearly finished. All that remains is the edging around the area which will be the new door. Ibrahim, the ‘usta’ says he cannot do this until the frame and doors are fitted, so we take his mobile number and he agrees to return on Tuesday or Wednesday to finish off. The floor looks perfect, so Iain, Nese and I go about sweeping and mopping all the dust off.

Adem arrives all dressed up and is planning to drive to one of the supermarkets to capitalise on their ‘weekly offers’. We chat and agree we’d all like a decko, so we down mops and head off to the shop.

After snagging a few bargains each, we’re back and ready to reinstall the sofa’s, TV, table and rug so we say goodnight to Adem & Nese and set about the task. We’re soon done and decide neither of us can be bothered to cook anything and as we feel so pleased with the floor, why not treat ourselves to fish and chips down at the Kosem.

The food maybe good there (and cheap) but there is little atmosphere, so we head off along the Kordon into town to see the ‘boyz’ down at the Kizmet bar and see what’s new with them.

They’re having a great time so we catch up for a few hours before ‘staggering’ home.

Sunday brings a well deserved lie in, Ramazan has invited us all over for *breakfast* at 12, so no need to get up too early! Awaiting us is a fine table, and we are joined by Adem, Nese, Eyup (our kitchen guy), his wife Nesrin and their daughter Gisem. In all we are 11. Ramazan and Ebru have surpassed themselves with a hot meat dish, many different cheese and olives, boiled eggs, fresh tomato and peppers, jams, honey the full monty – Turkish style, accompanied by seemingly unlimited bread and tea.

After a lazy and decadent feast, Iain and I check out the new boiler system he has installed complete with a Tarzan style pulley style to get the coal up to the roof terrace without carrying it through the house.

It’s a beautiful day, so I suggest we all go out for a walk. Some of the men folk aren’t keen, so we eventually agree that Iain will drive some of us ladies and a the children to Kaya village to explore the deserted Greek ruins.

We change and rendezvous by the car, and then realise that there are eight of us to get into the Toyota! Iain and I bag the front, and the other six all manage to squeeze into the back seats! Amazing. We are all happy to be going out, so we head off to Kaya. Spring seems to have come early and the place is festooned with pink and purple anenomies, which many Turkish women and girls are busy gathering in armfuls. Our group falls in and does the same, with Elifnas leaping around like a mountain goat.

We slowly climb through the deserted old streets, gathering flowers as we go, and soon we all have armfuls too. We go through a small canyon and emerge to an open vista out over the sea. It’s breathtaking. Time for a break. We settle down and take in the rays, gazing at the sea. Gisem has some MP3 music on her mobile phone, so she fires it up and the girls start dancing while us old ‘uns clap and applaud, just happy to be outside enjoying the day – the guys back home don’t know what they’re missing!

Pleased with their bouquets, we all head back to stuff ourselves in the car – this time Elif is riding in the boot, and head back to Fethiye.

We say goodbyes, and Iain and I pack up a few things to head over to see Pat for dinner and a night over.

We have to travel down a fairly long and potholed dirt track to reach them which is being ‘done up’. Unfortunately, we find at one point the track is impassable for our low slung ‘sport’s car!’, so I abandon Iain and walk on, while he turns and goes off to Park on the main road – walking over then via the back fields.

Pat and Chris have a roaring fire going great guns in the grate when we arrive, and we settle down to G&T’s and a good ol’chat.

After dinner it’s a Trivial Pursuit rematch, this time Pat and I lost rather emphatically to the boys! (lucky maybe??). It’s getting late, so we fill up hotties and head off to bed.

The next day (Monday, today!) is beautiful again, warm, sunny and clear, so we have a lazy morning before Iain and I head off back home. We’ve arranged to meet up later with Chris and Jan and go to the pictures to see Flags of our fathers, so we wander in after lunch, checking out a few haberdasheries on the way. I want to put some new curtains up in the salon, so we were on the hunt for material. In the end we found something suitable and bought 4 meters of it, so I can make some Roman blinds, just got to figure out how to do it now! Pat, Chris and Jan were waiting for us by the cinema, but our luck was out – the projector was knackered so instead we all went to a caff and had a drink and a chat before heading home for a quiet night in.