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On my tod in Turkey

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This blog is about my time in Turkey since buying an apartment in Kusadasi , a place I'd never visited until I came to view the apartment I subsequently bought.  I started the blog when on enforced lock down due to the Coronavirus pandemic. To go back to the beginning, I decided to take early retirement back in 2018 and my last day was at the end of September that year.  I'd always had a desire to spend more time in the sun and as I made frequent trips to Tenerife to visit friends, that was where I thought I wanted to buy a holiday home.  Also, I reckoned Spanish would be a relatively easy language to learn and I started taking lessons back in the UK.  Tenerife is very expensive to buy property due to the year round summer weather so I also considered mainland Spain where property is considerably cheaper but nothing was catching my eye when I went on line. In March 2019, for the second year, I went to the A Place In The Sun exhibition at Manchester's GMEX. I wandered ro