We slept in late the first day before going down to the pool area for some breakfast and generally taking it easy. Here is the view from our apartment. The big rock is Babadag Mountain, which is where the paragliders jump off. 
Later in the afternoon we took our first trip into Hisaronu. It is impossible to miss, but we managed to almost get lost after taking some wrong turns. It's just down the hill.
We looked around the town for a bit, getting to know the place. It generally looks a bit like this during the day:
There are loads of restaurants, tourist shops, barbers, jewellers and travel agents. They'll all try to get you into their business but they were never aggressive. It was nice to see that amongst the usual tourist tat there was actually some nice stuff for sale. In particular, the area seems to be important for the jewellery trade and there are some posh shops in the town. Therre also some small supermarkets. One is called Azda (yes, really), and another is Morison. The people here seem to have a talen for giving English people a version of what they're used to.
The place is bustling all day but really come alive when the sun goes down: 
We ended up eating at a restaurant called the Mariner's as it looked nice and had a good set menu.
If you really want to know, I had tomato soup (OK), stuffed trout (very nice), a lemon pancake (good), and some apple tea (nice). First drink was included in the price.
Yin had garlic mushrooms (mmm, mushroomy), sea bream (delicious), pancake and apple tea.
Our total bill, including two beers and a glass of wine, was about 48YTL. Considering we changed our money at the lowest rate it's been for months (2.05/£), that is around £23-£24, but would have been cheaper at current rates. Not bad, but we were actually expecting everything to be even cheaper. Can't complain though.
We spent a while in the town looking around and had a cocktail at La Cubana which you can just see in a picture above. It was 10YTL for a cocktail, but we were on holiday and a band was playing. You can get cocktails in Hisaronu for 5YTL but that's the cheapest I saw all week.
Yin's Favourite thing today:
discovering apple tea; dinner.
My Favourite thing today:
Dinner
Advice from a fool:
Don't buy anything or look like you want to buy anything until you have spent some time getting to know the place and the prices of things. I don't want to talk about that any more.
2 comments:
Hi Robin & Yin,
Good to see that you arrived safely. Interesting to read your restaurant review. Just wondering how are you getting on with finding food during Ramadan? Is the area you're in observing it or not?
Bought back to mind the documentary I watched of Mark Beaumont cycling round the globe. He managed to time his cycle to coincide with both Ramadan as he passed through the middle east AND the monsoon season when he passed through SE Asia.
Looking forward to seeing you again soon,
Ben
Hello
you wouldn't even have know it was Ramadan when we there there. It's quite a secular place. The mosques were not very visible, although where we ate at Mariner's was right next to a minaret so it was quite loud.
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