Travelog for: Cassiopeia

Hi mum,
now were on the Airport.
We entered a little private-jet, but then we were led to the real planes.
I liked the small one better.

Hi mum,
now we are in Asia
Exactly Lara Beach, Antalya, Turkey.
More exact 5* All Inclusive Miracle Resort Lara-Kundu.
On heavens-above.com you can see our room from above.
It was all inclusive a flat screen tv and a bed exclusive for TV's.
Even inclusive little cats and an all exclusive blue sky above the pool.
Snow topped mountains on the beach all inclusive of course.

More soon.

hi mum,
it's 14th of february, Valentines day.
fist a look at the view from the balcony to the hotels driveway.
On the right  begin the shops with well-priced cloth, shoes, watches and juwelry. Those malls are called Bazaar.

every afternoon was all inclusive live piano music and coffee hour.
also inclusive are the little kitten. (altogether we saw five at the hotel residence)
Later there was a Valentine Dinner with tasty valentine cakes.
The cakes were always yummy, but that day they looked pretty too.

more to come soon.

Hi mum,
today we visited Antalya.

Quote:

It is uncertain when the site of the current city was first inhabited. Attalos II, king of Pergamon, was believed to have founded the city around 150 BC, naming it Attalia and selecting it as a naval base for his powerful fleet. However, excavations in 2008 in the Doğu Garajı district of Antalya have uncovered remains dating to the 3rd century BC, suggesting that the city was founded earlier than previously supposed. Antalya became part of the Roman Republic in 133 BC when King Attalos III of Pergamon willed his kingdom to Rome at his death. The city grew and prospered during the Ancient Roman period. Christianity started to spread in the region after 2nd century. Antalya was visited by Paul of Tarsus, as recorded in the Acts of the Apostles: "From Perga, Paul and Barnabas went down to Attalia and sailed from there to Antioch after preaching in Pisidia and Pamphylia" (Acts 14:25-26). Antalya was a major city in the Byzantine Empire. It was the capital of the Byzantine Theme of Carabisiani (Θέμα Kαραβησιάνων, Thema Karavēsianōn), which occupied the southern coasts of Anatolia and the Aegean Islands. At the time of the accession of John II Comnenus (1118) it was an isolated outpost surrounded by Turkish beyliks, accessible only by sea. The city, along with the surrounding region, was conquered by the Seljuk Turks in the early 13th century. Antalya was the capital of the Turkish beylik of Teke (1321–1423) until its conquest by the Ottomans. The Arabic traveler Ibn Battuta who came to the city in between 1335-1340 noted: From Alanya I went to Antaliya [Adalia], a most beautiful city. It covers an immense area, and though of vast bulk is one of the most attractive towns to be seen anywhere, besides being exceedingly populous and well laid out. Each section of the inhabitants lives in a separate quarter. The Christian merchants live in a quarter of the town known as the Mina [the Port], and are surrounded by a wall, the gates of which are shut upon them from without at night and during the Friday service. The Greeks, who were its former inhabitants, live by themselves in another quarter, the Jews in another, and the king and his court and Mamluks in another, each of these quarters being walled off likewise. The rest of the Muslims live in the main city. Round the whole town and all the quarters mentioned there is another great wall. The town contains orchards and produces fine fruits, including an admirable kind of apricot, called by them Qamar ad-Din, which has a sweet almond in its kernel. This fruit is dried and exported to Egypt, where it is regarded as a great luxury. [from en.wikipedia.org]

We entered the old town at the Hadrians Gate and went then to the harbour. There were beautiful orange trees right in the city. On the other side of the bay there was a waterfall just in the city (look under the arrow) . It is not always seen, only if there was rain the days before and it was !
We had pretty looks over the sea and the boats, but Börnie tried to enter a small fisherboat.... you can see what happened!


more update soon

Hi mum,
here more pics from Antalya city.
A really nice old town with huge citywall and beautiful garden cafes between orange and lemon trees.
Later we had a tasty fresh squeezed pomegranate juice above the old town.
Back at the hotel a short look at cooks dressed for the turkish evening.
Salad bar, kebab roast and yummy ice "showcooking"!

hi mum,
today we went to the sunny beach.
We all enjoyed the warm sand and the blue sea.
We found some shells and stone, one of them looked like a heart
and Börnie presented it to his friend kikuchan.
Later he wanted to take a tour with a boat, especially the big red speedboat.
With the little Japanese of course.

more updates later.

Hi mum,
only two days more here in the sunny West of Western Asia.
A few pics of the hotel and the oriental flea market / bazaar.
There was juwelry, soap, clothes, spices, nuts and so much more to see.

more soon

Hi world,
this is the afternoon of the 18th, and the hotel provided a beautiful birthday cake to our hosts girlfriend, very yummy for all of us.
Later we had our last evening meal, the big buffet at the dining room.
We will miss all of the tasty food.

more travel update to come

Hi mum,
here now are the last pictures from our turkey holidays.
First pictures from the Hotel lobby, where strange potted birds are located. Börnie had to inspect one of them more detailed.
Later then we,Blue Zwie-Brat and especially kikuchan, visited the Turkish Shop at the airport before returning to Germany.

Collected for the mail yesterday.  Unfortunately the TV is too big for us to take on the Titanic Memorial Cruise – sorry about that.  Once back from cruise at the end of April this nice TV will visit places around Dubai and the rest of the United Arab Emirates.

The photo's show Cassiopeia's travels around the United Arab Emirates.  The places visited have been mentioned in the names of the files as uploaded.

I'm at home again and maybe will stay here until mid of August and then travel to Sweden. I will keep my fingers crossed.
Thank you to my hosts, with whom I had been during the last months.

Greetings, Cassiopeia

During the last weeks, my host sat in front of the computer and wrote many messages to send out IDs and answer questions. Did you hear of Galileo Big Pictures? Then you know, why she had to do some work here

Today she had to bake six quiche lorraine, all of them the size of three usually round cakes, and we had been happy to help her. Her husband celebrates a late 50th birthday party.

One sort of quiche was with cheese, ham and eggs, the other sort was with cheese, salmon, onion and eggs.

At first we had to read the recipe.




Then I weighed 600gr flour.




Fiona added 300gr butter.






I helped TV-TV to get some salt on a spoon. We needed one and a half teaspoon.






SunnyHH had a lot of fun climbing on Mr.Zwie-Muellers head while he tried to get water on a spoon. He had to add 15 tablespoons of water to the dough.






Then she had to stir the dough. My host said, that she hadn't been really a help doing it. Who knows why?






Scotty made the dough on aluminium foil, because it had to rest in the fridge for two hours.




Later Kari had to open 9 eggs for the stuffing.




You see SunnyHH had some fun again, while someone mixed the eggs. In the measuring cup we have 3/4 l cream and 3 grains of salt.




Someone also added 375gr cheese and 600gr cutted ham.




I can tell you, it tasted really good. And for the salmon quiche we just replaced ham with salmon - some said, it was even better.

After a while we were so tired of working in the kitchen. We knew, that it was the opening night of the Olympic Games in London, so we sat in front of our hosts' tv and were really fascinated while watching it. Just take a look at a few impressions of this night.

Today we had to warm up the Quiche again before the guests arrived. Doesn't it look yummy?