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After a morning swim, we motored across to Marti Marina to fuel up and then headed out to Selimiye, just 6 nmiles around the coast.  This is a first for us as we have never actually been  in Selimiye by boat, only by car last year with Trevor and Paula.  We have had a lot of good reports about the Aurora Restaurant pontoon and made our way there.  We moored bows to the wooden jetty with a lazy line to the stern welcomed in by a loud, full of himself, Turkish man called Hussein.  We went for a walk and had lunch of the local ‘gozleme’ in a café – no beer much to Brian’s disgust!  We relaxed by the restaurant on the sun loungers reading and swimming and in the evening had a meal which turned out to be a bit of a disaster.  Barbara, Brian and myself had the speciality  ‘cheesy beef’ which was thin strips of fillet wrapped around mozerella cheese on skewers and then BBQ’d – delicious but not very warm.  Dave however chose Lamb casserole which arrived cold and swimming in oil – he did not eat it and complained afterwards – obviously we did not pay for his meal.  All in all, I found the Aurora very over rated and expensive.

Selimiye  -  36  42  N  28  05  E