Sunday morning Tom & Val our home exchange hosts invited us to go for a traditional style Turkish breakfast up in the mountains above Kas. So at 10:15AM Tom & Val arrivied and away we went in Tom's car. We went up a twisty turney road way up the hill, through numerous small villages. The names of which I won't even try to pronounce. It's rather amazing that even though these roads are what we call back roads and country road, they are in pretty good shape considering. We didn't really bounce around alot in the backseat at all. As we climbed higher into the hills the hills became covered with grape vines. Turned out this was the grape growing region. Tom said later in the season, the grape vines will cover the trellis of the homes and climb the trees in the yards. Every home has vines. Soon we came to a place where the water was just gushing down the hillside like in an irragatiion canal. Tom said the water flows like that all year long, it just rushes down out of the mountains from the snow melt. Where we stopped to eat, some of the water had been diverted into two pondsand each pond had trout swimming in them. We sorta walked along a path to get into the restaurant. Then we went upstairs and onto a terrace outside to have our breaksfast. Turns Tom had called ahead the night before to let them know we were coming to make sure they had enough food for the breakfast.
Here's the memu: Coffee or tea, fresh tomatoes, fresh cucumbers, white cheese, olives, fried eggs(in olive oil & butter) fried white cheese (olive oil and butter) it was all delicious. I know it sounds strange, but really was good. After breakfast, Geralynn brought three fresh trout for our dinner that night. After breakfast we continued our drive thorough the country side seeing some very quaint villages and locals working their fields. Finally we arrivied at the top of the hillside over looking Gozeki the little village where Tom & Val's home sits over looking the Mediterranean Sea. What an awesome site that was, you could see for miles, (Maes, Greece) just off shore, the closest Greek island to Turkey. The mediterraean Sea is such an incredible shade of blue not like our dull Pacific ocean. What a wonderful day we had with out hosts.
check out my Picassa album :
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http://picasaweb.google.com/lowdivideroad/troutfarmbreakfast
Here's the memu: Coffee or tea, fresh tomatoes, fresh cucumbers, white cheese, olives, fried eggs(in olive oil & butter) fried white cheese (olive oil and butter) it was all delicious. I know it sounds strange, but really was good. After breakfast, Geralynn brought three fresh trout for our dinner that night. After breakfast we continued our drive thorough the country side seeing some very quaint villages and locals working their fields. Finally we arrivied at the top of the hillside over looking Gozeki the little village where Tom & Val's home sits over looking the Mediterranean Sea. What an awesome site that was, you could see for miles, (Maes, Greece) just off shore, the closest Greek island to Turkey. The mediterraean Sea is such an incredible shade of blue not like our dull Pacific ocean. What a wonderful day we had with out hosts.
check out my Picassa album :
:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lowdivideroad/troutfarmbreakfast 
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