We spent a week on Long Island visiting my family in August. My niece Fiona loves swimming in the big waves there more than any other two year-old!

The view of our balcony in Bodrum. We spent three weeks there in June-July. Spent a lot of time fixing up the apartments, but they are looking really good now. (All painted fresh white with new wood floors.)

At the end of June we took the hydrofoil from Bodrum to Rhodes. (was only 2 hours). Rhodes is a beautiful island with an amazing old walled city that was under Ottoman control for a few hundred years before Italy took over at the beginning of the 2oth century. (now part of Greece.) We spent 2 days there and then 2 more on Kos, which is just across from Bodrum. (We can see the cars driving on Kos from our balcony in Bodrum.) We had a great time exploring the old town and driving around the island to see the ancient city ruins.

Another view of the bustling walled city of Rhodes. Loads of tourists from everywhere!

This is me and Emre at Solar Beach, a beach club on the Black Sea at the end of July. It's just outside of Istanbul. Has nice sand and waves, but it is funny to see the huge oil tankers going by. Very fancy club though...

I haven't posted in so long! This photo is from mid July when Ariane came to visit. We had a fantastic time together. She first arrived in Bodrum, where we spent 2 days. We drove back to Istanbul, stopping in Bursa. Then 3 days touring the sites of Istanbul with perfect weather. Also had a fantastic boat tour and swam in the Bosphorous. This is us at Rumeli Hisari, the first fortress built by the Ottomans in 1452 as they prepared to capture Constantinople. That is the second bridge behind us.