AntalyaLiving.com is part pages, in which we try to provide the most current information about the Antalya region, and part travel blog, in which we share our personal experiences. We are always trying to improve the site, and to that end we decided to go to a Travel Bloggers convention. Of course the fact that [...]
Hidirellez, which begins on the evening of May 5th and continues through the next day, is the Turkish celebration of Spring, as well as a religious holiday for the Alevis (a branch of Islam). The name Hidirellez is thought to come from the names of the two prophets, Hizir and Ilyas (Elijah) who met on [...]
Friday night we went to the Antalya Symphony’s Pop and Jazz concert. We felt like we’d been transported to a cruise ship in the 70s. Aydin Kahya sang an old James Bond theme song (Thunderball), Sibel Gursoy joined him for "Can’t Take my Eyes off of You", and the orchestra even played the theme from [...]
May 1st is celebrated as Workers’ Solidarity day in more than 80 countries. In Turkey, International Solidarity Day was celebrated in Istanbul as far back as 1912, but May 1 became an official workers’ holiday after the establishment of the Turkish republic in 1923. Celebrations became violent though, causing the government to ban the holiday [...]
It had been over a week since Billy’s motorbike accident, and he was still in pain. He’d originally thought there was no point in getting an x-ray, because there isn’t anything to be done for fractured ribs anyway. But as our trip to Italy grew closer, and more and more of his friends suggested he [...]
Almost every Friday (except during the summer) the Antalya Devlet Senfoni Orkestrasi performs in the Aspendos Salon at the Ataturk Kultur Merkezi. They tend to focus on the classical "greatest hits", and this Friday is no exception. On the program is the Sibelius Violin Concerto and Beethoven’s 4th Symphony. The concert hall is a [...]
As I was walking around Kaleiçi yesterday I bumped into Katja who I knew from the time she Couchsurfed in my apartment. At that time she was talking to me about opening a laundry business but that she had very little funds to do so. Imagine my surprise then when I saw her sitting outside [...]
I popped along to the Black Betty last Thursday for a chat about the possibility of organising some more social events there and walked into a film set! I had heard before that film sets were really boring and that was basically confirmed to me that afternoon. I hung around for about 3 hours to [...]
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