Since returning from my summer in Dalyan, I can say I have checked off nearly everything on my post-move/settle-in to-do list. It has been 2+ months of nesting, arranging, rearranging, shopping, waiting on deliveries and assemblies, and then the unpacking of more boxes and luggage, and final arrangements. I can say that I feel 95% settled. I have a few items to get framed and hung on the walls, but otherwise the major list items…
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…