Going for Sunday breakfast in the mountains is one of my favourite pastimes. You get a lot of freshly-made food for very little money, and the scenery is beyond compare.

The women wait for gözleme orders to come in. We kept them pretty busy.

I know I’m over a month behind, but I finally got around to editing the photos from the ADSO International Women’s Day concert. The theme was sopranos, and the singing was just gorgeous.

For obvious reasons, I refrained from taking photos during the actual performance, but I managed to get a couple of shots at the end.

Our three sopranos were Aslı Ayan, Tülay Uçar, and Nurdan Küçükekmekçi Aydın (L to R). You can find performances from each of these lovely ladies on YouTube.

Sometimes you just get lucky with the sunlight— there’s no post production work here, it really looked like that. I think this shot may not work as well if you don’t understand the sign— it’s a sign on the municipal cemetery fence advertising a 24/7 hotline you can call if someone in your household has died and you require the immediate services of an undertaker.

I don’t know what it is about April, but I seem to drink more coffee this month than any other. It used to be that most places in Antalya only served Nescafé, but now you can get a good cup of filter coffee almost everywhere. I thank Starbucks, because it was only after their arrival in Antalya that the Nescafé crowd realised they had to step up their game.

Mind you, this particular cup of coffee came from Vanilla Lounge, who have always served the real deal, even before it was cool.

It suddenly got very dark inside the house, so I stepped outside to see a storm moving in very quickly.

I looked to my right and saw this.

The whole thing started accelerating and moving toward the sea.

The clouds built up in both speed and volume.

Soon we were completely blanketed. It was wonderful.

It’s still quite chilly after dark, but that hasn’t stopped me from enjoying my new balcony lanterns. I think they’re fantastic.

Things are really blooming around here, and the bees have certainly noticed, as have I.

A friend of mine has a little Maltese terrier named Luna. This is the cutest little dog I’ve ever met in my life, and I’m totally in love with her. When my friend and I go out, we stick to places that are dog-friendly, which is pretty much anywhere that has a courtyard or a garden area. Luna isn’t really a beggar, but with such delicious cheese fries on the table, you can’t really blame her.

We’ve been having some crazy weather lately— it looked very sunny and springlike for a while there, and now the storms have moved back in and it’s been chilly and rainy all week. As you know, I’m a big fan of precipitation, and I’m not complaining. I like it when Mother Nature shows off.

As you might imagine in a place like Antalya, tourism education is a big deal, and there are even schools at the secondary level dedicated to teaching tourism. I was approached the other day by this young tourism student, who told me she’d been given an assignment by her teacher to follow a foreigner around, find out what foreigners like to do, what they think of Turkey, and so forth. As it turned out, I was on my way to the beach, which seems like such a cliché, but was actually highly unusual as I’m not really a fan and hadn’t been to the beach in a couple of years. We had a great conversation and although I’m not sure how much she learned about what foreigners like to do, I enjoyed meeting her and I hope she was able to report positive things back to her class.