Tuesday 6th January:

Angst in the Villa: Knowing the area

The day begins with us all leaving at around half 9 to go and look around the local area, with the dual purpose of everyone getting to know where everything is and also looking for ideas for team Catbarrel’s level. We are very wary of the huge storm clouds that we can see heading from inland, but they luckily pass over the mountains and skirt Marmaris itself.

On our way around the seafront, which consists almost entirely of bars and restaurants, we encounter several people trying to convince us to come into their restaurant to eat. The friendliest of these is John, a genuinely nice guy, and we end up visiting there later for lunch.

Whilst we were eating lunch, on our behalf some people Louise knows in Marmaris haggled with a boat man and got the price down for us to have the boat and food to ourselves for a whole day. We got it down to 140 Lira, which is about 60 quid for all of us for an entire day.

We all walked round the Castle, some back roads and side streets up a large hill and took some photographs and saw some nice buildings. After this we travelled along the beach and then found the street that all 3 of us almost instantaneously knew that we wanted to make.

We found some parks and odd bits that we wanted to include as well whilst on our travels.

Next to the apartment there’s a small park, which has a climbing frame, some swings, a slide, a see saw and EXERCISE MACHINES! Outdoor ones they are so cool! WE all had a go on them they are very fun. Martin decided to jump on the climbing frame and preceded to break it. We rapidly left.

We went back to see John for lunch and came back to the apartment because it looked like it was going to rain. We had a team discussion about what we wanted to include in our level and what route the track would take. During a break from the rain Louise and Slaney ventured out to get us all some food for dinner, unfortunately on their travels we had some torrential rain and both came back like drowned rats.

Bless them……

We have invented a drinking game ‘The Jack of Clubs’. You basically go around the room drawing a card for each person until someone gets the Jack of Clubs. That person must then drink.

About 10pm (our time) we went to a bar and had a few drinks.

Then went to bed.