Catch the sailing bug in beautiful Bodrum

Sailing in Bodrum Turkey

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An Aegean adventure: Catch the sailing bug in beautiful Bodrum

Sailing in Bodrum Turkey

By MALCOLM HERDMAN All By This Author – 16/01/2012

Excerpt:

A three-hour course on basic sailing skills was recommended for those who, like me, hadn’t clambered aboard a dinghy for donkey’s years. So, before long, I was being made to capsize a small, single-sailed boat called a Pico, while our instructor, Sam, shouted directions from the shore on how to right it.

An exhausting but invaluable lesson, as it later turned out.

‘Did you see me out there?’ I asked the family after I’d handed the boat back to its rightful owners. ‘Yes, Dad,’ said the children with what, I felt, was a little too much hilarity. ‘You had a builder’s bum!’ said my daughter, as they collapsed into fits of laughter. Keeping my swimming shorts up had been the least of my worries. Read more

 
 
Although this article covers Malcom’s adventure as he takes to the high-seas for a sailing adventure, his article also includes a summary and history of Bodrum, and some interesting tourism and fake shopping facts. 
 
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