MOBY GOES TO TURKEY. A tam and pups adventure.

[CaptainPaul]

Is that little fella a Bodequero?

Funny you mention that, that's Iggy and that's what I thought when I first saw him but he's actually a smooth coat Parsons, I know one thing he's a complete rocket! Lol he took on about 5 wild cats in a big wheelie bin thing in Morocco last week and there wasn't a cat to be seen for days after it!
But he's the most affectionate wee dog with people & he's great with other dogs, but cats, rats and mice etc it's always open season with Iggy!

 

[Shrimp]

Love Iggy!
Pippa is a broken coat Parsons and like Iggy a rocket!

 

[CaptainPaul]

Love Iggy!
Pippa is a broken coat Parsons and like Iggy a rocket!
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Aww Pippa is gorgeous

 

[jockaneezer]

Hey Tam, instead of faffing about with a battery wrench that might not have enough oomph, or could be flat when you need to use it, get yourself one of these torque multipliers ?

This is my 3/4" drive one and it's removed every bolt it's been used on, from Iveco dual rears to 5 foot tall timber harvester wheels. I lent it out to remove the near side dual rears on a Grafter and they split their chrome socket as they hadn't realised (like TinaLes mentioned) it was a left hand thread !
The 3/4" set is maybe overkill for you ( the box weighs 11kg !) but one of these https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CF2RB68G/?tag=mhf04-21 1/2" drive sets might suit you ?
My 3/4" set was under £60, a hell of a lot cheaper than a Milwaukee impact and never needs charging !

 

[Onemanandhisdog]

Careful what you wish for Tam is lonliness better than being on a site where Gadget John and Simple Mandy or whatever she calls herself turn up? I'd seen the last video from Campervibe saying they were in Albufeira for a week, but they are still here and it's a YouTube convention! I did say hello to the girls and AJ, he's a star! I seem to be on a roll, late last year Those Happy Days rocked up where I was staying and promptly blew their van up for the second time when they left, now it's this lot!!

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[Northernraider]

Nothing exciting the last couple of days just quiet beach parkups to do some laundry and housework .

Moved on today to mount chimera where the flames come out the ground on the mountain side. I opted for the not so easy hike up from the river on the west side of the mountain ... we climbed up to the top flames first and then back down to the lower ones... would have been easier to park at the lower ones but meh the dogs enjoyed the hike even if it nearly killed me lol. Took us around 90 minutes to get up there ... and an hour to get back down.

Lot of pics
...there was a wee auld shepherd up the top who looked like something from the last century lol ...all in rags

And a wee video collage ....excuse the heavy breathing it was a taxing hike...

 

[pagey]

excellent as usual

 

[KiwiKampers]

What an amazing place. I can see that it was a challenging walk but there was so much to admire on the way, including wild irises, surprisingly. That shepherd is quite scary, but at least he gave you a smile! Where and what were his flock? You nearly had a hot dog there when Milo appeared to stand on top of the flames.

 

[Zoobec]

Looks like it was worth the walk. Stunning scenery

 

[Carol]

Tam what an amazing place, was the ground hot what a strange place. What animals did the shepherd have. Some people have so little I wonder what he would make of the world outside his mountain.

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[Northernraider]

What an amazing place. I can see that it was a challenging walk but there was so much to admire on the way, including wild irises, surprisingly. That shepherd is quite scary, but at least he gave you a smile! Where and what were his flock? You nearly had a hot dog there when Milo appeared to stand on top of the flames.

Goats ...I tried to zoom in to them in the video they were on the opposite hill ..he kept shouting to them

 

[Northernraider]

Tam what an amazing place, was the ground hot what a strange place. What animals did the shepherd have. Some people have so little I wonder what he would make of the world outside his mountain.

No ..I felt some of the rocks and a few had a little heat but not much.

He had goats they were over on the other hill

 

[Feltwell]

This problem of tight wheel nuts reminds me of a my 1st camping trip to the Isle of Sky late 70's. we met up with some mature friends that had hired a MH, it was a Ford Transit with twin wheels at the rear. They split one of the rear tyres on a tight bend up some steep road miles from anywhere, no mobile phones back then. They got the spare wheel from under the van, got all the supplied wheel changing tools out, jack ready to lift up the van etc. They tried & tried to undo the wheel nuts, but they wouldn't budge. They even tried hitting the wheel brace with a large rock, as they didnt have a lump hammer.
Having taken most of his skin off his knuckles the air was Blue, wife stayed out the way as much as possible, made tea, but felt useless, as did he I bet.
They had no choice but to drive on with a knackered rear tyre, flapping arround, probably overheating until they got to a village with a Red Phone Box. They called out the breakdown service from a phone box, they waited quite a long time, but the breakdown guy arrived eventually. Within minutes he had his large jack under the van, and with his HD wheel brace had the wheel nuts loosened and wheel off, spare back on, tightened up, ready to go.
The breakdown chap then said, sorry I can see you have hurt your hands trying to get that wheel off with limited tools etc, and there's no easy way to tell you now, but the wheel nuts on this van being twin wheeled are Left Hand Threaded!
Funny the things you remember all your life eh?
LES

There was an exhibitor struggling to get his towing eye screwed in to a hired van to be towed off the grass at the Peterborough show last year, till he was told to try putting it in the "wrong way". Mind you he was a numpty - got towed out by a 4x4, drove off, came back half an hour later and went to drive back on the grass! I told him not a good idea, bearing in mind that he was well & truly stuck before, to which he said "Oh it's OK, I'm keeping 1 wheel on the tarmac this time", and wouldn't hear that that wouldn't work.

 

[nicholsong]

Tam

Finding that shepherd (goatherd?) reminds me of a serious walk I did along the E. coast of Amorgos, Greece a few years ago, when I came across this hermit living in a stone 'bothy' up in the hills.

I knew he existed from talk in the village. We could not communicate much because my Greek is basic, but I left him some food and water.

I regret that he has probably passed away but I still remember him.

Geoff

 

[Pixies]

Every other car here is either a fiat tofas dogan, the equivalent of the fiat regata in the UK or its a Renault 12. Its actually amazing just how many there are on the roads here. There's like a cult following of them . The Renault 12 was originally produced by the French from 1969 to 1980 ...I had a 1978 one myself around 1992 but in turkiye they were made right up to 2000.

Loads of garages restoring them , parts are easy and fairly cheap to come by.


In a way I think it's sad how we in the UK have allowed our government over the years to force people in to buying new cars all the time under the bs claim about the environment etc. Spain. Portugal, Greece, most of the balkans etc all seem to adopt the attitude of keeping hold of older cars and just maintaining them ...and personally I'm a great believer in that and think it is definitely more environmentally friendly to buy a car and keep it on the road for 40 years than it is to keep scrapping and remaking cars with increasingly more and more plastic parts



That said some of the turks may be a little ott going by articles like this one lol

Seller's regret: Turkish man scrambles to rebuy his rare Fiat-Tofaş

The admiration of the Turkish-built versions of the Fiat Regata is a serious matter in Turkey. In one such case, a Turkish man in Antalya was ostracized by...

www.dailysabah.com

Definitely. The most environmentally friendly car is the one you already own. Just change the oil and filter and keep it running.

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[TUCANO]

You should get one of those fiat dogfans Tam.

 

[Reallyretired]

I think if I was part of a couple then aye siting in a bar or coffee shop watching the world go by would possibly be better. But as a solo ...I just have a wee walk about towns to see if any interesting buildings or things to see. But its kind of like every other seaside town really. Its not got the same charm as some of the wee greek villages etc. I can see why it's a wee tourist trap for folk coming to Turkey for a week or so in a hotel etc but not jumping out at me as somewhere nice for a van.

And believe me I say hello to practically everyone.... but it gets wearing when maybe 10% actually acknowledge and say hello back.. less than 2% actually have any conversation lol.

Honestly I think it must be me, maybe couples fair better , or maybe it's the dogs, the tattoos, who knows but I'm not imagining it. It's quite soul destroying at times.

Folk used to say it was better to travel alone as you were more inclined to meet and talk to folk but it's not really. The last real-time conversation I've had that's lasted more than 5 minutes was 27th December... that's now nearly 2 months .

This shows more in the fact I've used 30gb of data in 3 weeks lol as I'm online more because otherwise I'm talking to.my feckin self.


And to make things worse I can't even phone anyone lol as I have no call or text allowance on these esims ..their data only .

If you use WhatsApp you can phone people just using data, as long as they are on WhatsApp too.

 

[Scotch mist]

Northernraider

Goats ...I tried to zoom in to them in the video they were on the opposite hill ..he kept shouting to them


my wife heard the shouting from the kitchen & was positive it was you

 

[125BEER]

What's Turkish for "Deliverence".....

Cheers

 

[Mikey RV]

Did the shepard say anything to you. I would have loved to have a conversation with him if possible just to find out about the way he lives etc. And then gave him some money.

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[Northernraider]

Did the shepard say anything to you. I would have loved to have a conversation with him if possible just to find out about the way he lives etc. And then gave him some money.

Didn't speak a word of English... he wasn't too keen on the dogs so didn't hang around long. Not sure if he lives up there in a wee hut or whether he walks up there every day or what. It seemed weird that he was on one hill and the goats were on another . But they seemed to listen to him lol as they were all going where he was shouting to them

 

[Langtoftlad]

I was wondering about the shepherd and your dogs.

 

[Northernraider]

I was wondering about the shepherd and your dogs.

Aye but the dogs were next to me and his goats were on the opposite hill. A good 20 minute hike away . And besides my dogs aren't interested in goats, sheep, cows, horses etc ... they don't react to them. Only cats that move fast, birds and other dogs. I think maybe some of the stray dogs might bark at the livestock and that's why they automatically assume any dog will. That said if his goats had been next to us I'd have had the dogs on leads anyway just incase

 

[dryad]

what an interesting place with all those little fires. how bizarre..
do they stay burning or come up willy nilly?
wondering if it ever causes a big fire though?

 

[Northernraider]

what an interesting place with all those little fires. how bizarre..
do they stay burning or come up willy nilly?
wondering if it ever causes a big fire though?

They seem to burn all the time or at least some do. Not sure how they get ignited. You can hear the gas escaping from some rocks that aren't lit. Few signs around telling you not to light them . Also a lot of fallen burnt trees at bits so I imagine there's been a few fires over the years. Quite a bit info about them on Wikipedia etc .

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[Northernraider]

It also says a lot of people visit them at night but jeeso they're keen lol. You certainly wouldn't climb up the way I went at night. You'd be found dead in the morning lol

 

[monzer]

They seem to burn all the time or at least some do. Not sure how they get ignited. You can hear the gas escaping from some rocks that aren't lit. Few signs around telling you not to light them . Also a lot of fallen burnt trees at bits so I imagine there's been a few fires over the years. Quite a bit info about them on Wikipedia etc .

How are you for lpg?

 

[Northernraider]

Pics from today , still at the beach in cirali... lovely warm day today , its getting up to mid-high 20's daytime just now which is lovely.

 

[Onemanandhisdog]

Fantastic pictures again. What a shame the world isn't a friendly place, i was just looking at a map, you could bob on through Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, quick nip up to Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar and then on for a cup of Yorkshire with Ian the Builder in Thailand!

 

[Northernraider]

Fantastic pictures again. What a shame the world isn't a friendly, i was just looking at a map, you could bob on through Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, quick nip up to Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar and then on for a cup of Yorkshire with Ian the Builder in Thailand!

One of the Belgian couples I spent Christmas with are making their way to Mongolia and China so it obviously can be done but think they had to jump through a lot of hoops for visas etc

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