Despite being anchored close to the marina for a night and spending a night in the marina, the only photo I have to show is of the Thursday market. The fact that we got to visit the market is, however, a bit of a triumph for us because we generally seem to arrive somewhere the day after the ‘fabulous market’ has taken place and then depart before the next one. At Ayvalik, however, by fluke we were able to enjoy the sights, sounds and nice aromas of the bustling market with stalls crammed into the narrow streets.
It was quite opportune because we wanted to stock up with fresh fruit and vegetables and fill BV with some of the things we have enjoyed in Turkey before leaving for Greece. With arms laden down with shopping bags we stopped off at the fish market to buy some fish from the stall owner who had kept an eye on our dinghy for us on previous days. He was very puzzled as to where our dinghy was that day.
As well as making loading lots of supplies easy, the main purpose of the night in the marina was to complete the formalities for leaving Turkey. We had filled up with fuel on arrival at the marina so it was just a case of waiting to get our passports and ship’s papers back. That turned out to be a very efficient service. We could have traipsed around the town trying to find all of the different offices and departments to collect the necessary stamps but in the end we took the easy option and went shopping whilst an agent did the running around for us. That took just a couple of hours and our papers were returned with all of the stamps we needed to allow us to slip out of Turkey on 29 May.
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| Ayvalik, Turkey |
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