by Alex Smith

Well there you go, suddenly it’s nearly the end of April and in the last three days or so the temperature has begun to soar. It’s bringing the sandal and the shorts out of their winter hibernation and all over Kaş they’re having their first airing of what, I am sure, will be a long summer as usual. We were invited to a barbecue yesterday and sitting on our friend’s terrace were feeling almost too hot at six o’clock in the evening. All of the businesses are now open and ready and everywhere is looking spic and span. I haven’t ventured into the sea for a swim yet but that’s laziness more than anything I’m pretty sure that if I put my toe in the water I would judge it to be fine for swimming. We have visitors here from England and the warm late spring weather is brought even more sharply into focus with their tales of the harsh British spring snow, frost n’all. If there’s one thing you can rely on in the Mediterranean it’s a bloody long hot summer, it’s one of the reasons we’re all here.

Every year between Easter and the beginning of May we do our in-house tourleading. This training gives new candidates a grounding in all our activities.

This year is starts on 23rd April and finishes on May 3rd with our Opening Party.

by Alex Smith

There has been a silence of late with, as far as I can remember, no news coming from this place for three or maybe even four months. Here then is an attempt to remedy that. By the way thanks to all the people whose kind words have prompted me to write this by telling me that they have missed this regular bulletin.

Rita Schumann has kindly submitted this article on a group of interesting women who have been coming to KaÅŸ for a long time to practise some unusual pursuits!

It is time again, every midday Gabi and her friends dance in colourful dresses on the roof terrace of the Hotel Likya to Turkish and Greek music.

It has been 15 years now that Gabi has regularly come from Bremen to Kaş, at least once a year with a ladies’ group in order to do yoga at the seaside and to practise belly dancing on a roof terrace. We met in the Café Merhaba six years ago and since then we meet to exchange news about Kaş and to go on a short hike.

Norman Stafford had the idea or running A Barn Dance to raise money. Here he writes about his experience of actually running it.

Over a year ago some ladies involved with the local children’s charity, Kas4kids/Busy Bees, suggested that I should come to Kaş to run a Barn Dance as a money raising event. To be honest I half-expected that this might not happen, as a few years before I had tried a similar event at the Echo Bar, which I felt I had allowed to become a bit of a shambles, although it did raise a good amount of money for the local children.

I was surprised, therefore, when in July I received an e-mail from Gwen asking what date I was coming as permission had been obtained from the Governor of the region to hold the event. I was cornered, and there was no way out, so I suggested the 13th October and everyone set their plans in motion.