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Cycling Santas celebrate Christmas in Fethiye, Turkey

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Turkey has recently become a country which many foreigners visit repeatedly and many of them eventually decide to settle in. In fact, thousands of foreigners from countries such as UK, Holland and even America now live in the most beautiful places of Turkey, such as Bodrum, Marmaris and Kalkan etc.

It goes without saying that one of the most popular among these places is FETHIYE and our foreign friends living here have almost established a whole new world for themselves. On the one hand, while taking advantage of the beauties of this lovely country, on the other hand, they do not neglect their traditions and Customs… Just like the great event they had, to celebrate Christmas with, at the end of 2019.

At Christmas, these foreign friends in FETHIYE organized a very interesting event to celebrate this special day. Many Turkish citizens also participated in the event and the whole community had a wonderful time altogether.  The community organized the “SANTA BIKE RIDE” which locals also found very entertaining. The lovely surprise was the cyclists handed out sweets to the children which surely made them happy.

A foreign couple in Fethiye at the time recorded this event as a video and shared it on Youtube which one really enjoys watching. When we wanted to talk to this couple to thank for this beautiful recording this is what they shared with us:

“We’re Steve and Virginia Cook from Wiltshire, UK.

We fell head over heels in love with Turkey when we first visited in 2011 to see some friends in Fethiye. We have visited many times since, bought a holiday home in 2014 in Akarca (Fethiye), got married at Calis beach in 2015 and are planning to move over permanently in 2021.

We love the friendliness and hospitality of the people, the wonderful climate, the amazing scenery of the mountains, sea and countryside, the relaxed way of life and ambience, more affordable and beautiful properties, the wonderful food, alfresco dining watching the world go by, the sound of the call to prayer even at 4am!! and the general cost of “day to day living”.

Fethiye is a beautiful place, our paradise, where our hearts and souls are. Roll on 2021!!”

How can you beat such a beautiful message full of GOOD FEELINGS and FRIENDSHIP for this country? We sincerely thank Virginia and Steve for the wonderful video and note that we are really lucky to have such distinguished foreign friends which we find equal to all the effort Turkey would be ready to spend for promotion, on the global arena.

NOTE: We also thank Bekir GOURD (keen cyclist Robert) for organizing this year’s event and Lyn WARD of fethiyetimes.com for publishing the news about it.

Thanks to Steve for the beautiful video

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