After a few days spent unpacking and settling into the new (to me) flat, I packed up Ziggy, Jinx, and myself, and relocated us to Dalyan for the rest of the summer holiday. Driving down with one cat was always noisy–but with two it was three hours of them calling back and forth to one another, and Jinx reaching her paw out trying her damndest to get hold of something, anything. Believe it or not,…
Not a year ago I shared here about my Next Stage of Life in Turkey. That post talked about my move to a different apartment, a seaside apartment. It had many things to recommend it: incredible view of the sea, lots of storage (the hallway was lined with closets) and built-in closets with drawers in the bedroom, an elevator, a guest bedroom, and it was in a great location for shopping and eating out. But…
You may recall that in the summer of 2021 I hosted what I coined the “Soul Sister Summer Retreat” (in Dalyan), and which I wrote about in Shift 3 of my The Shifts of Summer blog post two years before. I have a number of girlfriends around the globe that I consider my “soul sisters” and with whom I share a deep and authentic friendship. To be perfectly honest, since watching an episode of “Sex…