I clearly spoke too soon about the levelness of the tent, because in actual fact it was far from it, or at least my side wasn't! Consequently I had another rubbish nights' sleep, fortunately we have a very short ride today.
Via a couple of gentle climbs we reached the highest point and were treated to a spectacular view of the sea around Fethiye.
Once again the promised tunnel failed to materialise, we are beginning to wonder if the cartographer got bored and started drawing them in randomly on our map. You would imagine it is quite difficult to miss a tunnel, but that is now two that seemingly don't exist and one we couldn't use. Mind you it would have been a job to see where they would have put the tunnel as we were already as high as you could go. The rest of the ride into Fethiye was largely downhill and we arrived in the town at about 10:30am. Despite a very long ride through the town we found the marina and located our guest-house of choice with ease.
Having checked in and showered we set off to have a look round Fethiye's Tuesday market. After some initial impressions that it wasn't very big, we explored a bit more and found ourselves walking round the largest market we have encountered since Istanbul.
We have found that in Turkey you have to take advantage of these markets, as outside of them, it is very difficult to get any variety of fresh fruit and vegetables.
Having stocked up, we stopped at one of several pancake stalls and had a light lunch and the obligatory cup of çay.
The marina and waterfront area of Fethiye is very attractive and it was along there that we strolled slowly back to the guest-house. Our first impressions of the town have been good. It is certainly a bit more lively than Köyceğiz, so we may well stay and see in the New Year.
The only issue that we have found, is that restaurants are more expensive than we have been used to. This was highlighted by the ludicrous bill that we were presented with at dinner. We will definitely not be reusing that restaurant!
We cheered ourselves up with a bottle of wine and then settled in for an early night. Let's hope I sleep well tonight.
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