Songs on Saturday ~ Leo Sayer
Inside my heart may be breaking, my smile may be faking it, but the show must go on
Those of us with Borderline Personality Disorder may identify with this song.
Nice to know we are not the only crazy ones.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
I always rent a Mustang,
that has to count for something.
Leaving On a Bus
I don’t know when I’ll be back to Turkey again
Today is the last day of my vacation in Oludeniz, Turkey ~ which as it goes is a very nice place, thoroughly to be recommended to the more relaxed traveller.
Those of us from the more civilised parts of Europe and North America, (Turkey isn’t in Europe), may occasionally become frustrated / annoyed by the casual attitude of the Turks, and the macho misogynistic ways of Turkish men ~ but it’s not all so very different to the Hispanics I’ve come accross in California. So, the plumbing is dodgy, the traffic is manic, and wi-fi here only works when it feels like it….. But, so what.
The weather in the later part of the summer is gorgeous, the genuinely Turkish food is marvellous, and the Mediterranean is a deep calm, shimmering turquoise. What I will remember most of course are the smells; woodsmoke, cooking, coffee, the sea, Turkish cigarettes, drains, and often very stinky Turks.
Ah, c’est la vie.
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Jack Collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
there’s still a lot of parasailing here
I still haven’t done it
Vacation Sunset
red sky at night, sailors’ delight
The sky over this part of Turkey is pretty hazy, which means that sunset is pretty.
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Jack Collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
sunset in Arizona is pretty too
Nostalgia ain’t What it Used to Be
out with the old, and in with the new
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There is something satisfying and real about people, places, and things that properly belong in a bygone era. Somehow the old and familiar can give one a lot of pleasure just by being there.
I like classic cars, classic motorcycles, old Hollywood movies, ancient buildings, and old towns. I also prefer the classical style of dress, good manners that many think outdated and pointless, and more mature women.
In some ways this Turkish Holiday destination belongs in a bygone era; the people, the junk cars and busses, the antedeluvian attitude of the men towards women, the snail slow wi-Fi connection in this hotel, seem more 20th rather than 21st century.
Some older, classical things are worth preserving ~ misogynistic men and painfully slow internet connections should be consigned to the junk pile where they belong.
Jack Collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
steam trains are alive,
electric locomotives are just technology
Snail E-mail
slow down and enjoy the beauty of life.
every holiday hotel needs a nice pool
If you live at a slower pace maybe you shouldn’t expect lightning fast wi-fi performance in your small, friendly, relaxed hotel.
Well, here on vacation in Turkey I’ve switched from a big, soulless, unsatisfactory hotel, to a much smaller, much nicer, more relaxed place for the second part of my vacation. The pool here is very nice indeed.
There is a slight snag when it comes to being connected to the web, because the wi-fi here is slower, more relaxed, and just about comatose when it comes to response times.
Ah well, I am on vacation, I can put up with poor internet performance when measured against sun, sand, scenery, and turquoise sea.
Just don’t expect long and regular posts for the next few days.
I could die of old age while I’m waiting for a screen to refresh.
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Jack Collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Wi-Fi here doesn’t have a white rabbit’s sense of urgency
Monochrome Monday ~ Smoking Hot
Love is a smoke made up with the fume of sighs. ~ Shakespeare
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
It takes a certain type of woman to accept a light when she’s only wearing black lingerie
and lots of makeup, and earrings, and probably tall heels
Why Stop Stacking Rocks?
making a rock stack is a kind of environmental graffiti
those are gigantic, natural ‘rock stacks’
There are those environmentalists who urge people not to build rock stacks because it’s meaningless environmental graffiti, and disturbs the natural world. And there are those other environmentalists who would like us all to reduce our carbon footprint by stopping flying cattle-class to take our two-week annual vacation in the sun, as all the while they take a dozen trips a month on private jets to speak at meaningless green conferences. There are also those beggar-my-neighbour lunatics who would like to have building a little rock stack made illegal.
Man has been making piles of stones since the dawn of time, usually making big heaps of stones called cairns to mark a footpath ~ in the days when losing your way was a deadly mistake. No doubt some Neolithic nutters were against that too. Mind you I think it’s a damn shame that man cut down most of the ancient woodland here in England.
Unless you’re digging up stones with a lot of critters underneath, then the environmental impact of making a rock stack is effectively zilch. Anyone can easily unmake it at any time. But then ‘environmentally friendly’ ‘people are never really live-and let live types.
Some say that people should be banned from all the ‘unspoilt’ places on the planet. And don’t do as I do, do as I say. All I know is that the world would be a better place if most of the ‘environmentally friendly ‘ people packed their bags and left.
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Jack Collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
probably someone wanted to ban building Stonehenge, that’s a rock stack
Scenes on Sunday ~ Rock Stacks
he who moves a mountain carries away the small stones first
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
photoshopped, but still cool
Boat Trip
I don’t need therapy, I just need a boat trip
On a vacation in Turkey, on the Turquoise Coast, it’s de rigueur to take a boat trip, perhaps out to some of the island’s that carelessly rise from the pretty blue-green waters. As it goes, today I am enjoying my second little-ship cruise around the tranquil Mediterranean.
This bit of coastline is sometimes called the Turkish Riviera, which is a misnomer, because it’s rugged, pretty, and charming in exactly the same way the French Riviera isn’t
Unless you are both antisocial and a very poor sailor these shortish boat trips are to be recommended as an interestingly different way to spend a day relaxing in the Mediterranean sunshine. And getting around by boat is far, far more uplifting than visiting exactly the same places on a charabanc trip.
On top of which eating, drinking, dancing, and sunbathing are all actively encouraged on these excursion boats.
There was a little bit of a lop on the peaceful sea today, which made for an interesting ride and some white spray coming up at the bows of our boat.
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Jack Collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Sun, sea, but no sex please,
I’m an English Gentleman
Songs on Saturday ~ Sailing
those who love must learn to sail in storms
Sailing can become all-consuming passion for the sea and the wind.
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I can sail a yacht as well as most
ghosting by the Mediterranean coast
yet the sea and the wind are never at rest
and no mere sailor can ever best the storms
please listen very responsibly to this music post
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
sailing a yacht is reasonably easy in good weather
