A Peaceful Sunny Daily Impression of GEMILER Beach
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April 2010, Kaya Köyü - Easter Sunday
Gemiler Beach is the beach which is *part of* the valley KAYA KÖYÜ.
Arriving either direct from Fethiye, or the so-called English village (Hısonaru), at the small round-about, also the meeting place of the mostly male villagers there is only 1 road left that continues taking you all the way - down - to Gemiler Beach. It is the Kınallı-Gemiler Caddısı.
On other words: Gemiler Beach is easy to find, also easy to get to these days, and absolutely a lovely peaceful place to spend one or more days, relaxing in the sun, swimming - even all the way to Gemiler Island (also called St. Nicholas Island).
The Muhtar of Kaya Köyü - Mustafa Karaköz - since his election in April 2009 is also responsible
for the *well-being* of Gemiler Beach, which entails: cleanliness, garbage facilities, clean toilets with flushing water and some small restaurants.
Gemiler Beach has a long rather colourful history, nothing to do with tourism, local folklore if you like, and it really took a bit of time before they began to accept that WE - tourists - do like some comforts and other facilities we have grown used to, since World War 2 to go back a bit in history.
Why? Well people tend to overlook certain issues they most likely would be prepared to accept, going to a beach in their own country for the day.
And I am weiting about it, because only a few days ago, searching for Gemiler Beach (in the search engines), I found one website with some English folks, commenting on Gemiler Beach and in an extremely negative way.
At that moment, without the Gemiler Beach as part of my own ONLINE business & profile, I decided to use a few available online facilities, in order to bring Gemiler Beach to the attention of holidayers visiting this part of the world, and of Turkey.
Lets see, I decided what the search engines, specially Google come up with, whilst indexing and having it available in their search engine, so firstly I wrote a bit about Gemiler Beach through a favourite sire of mine, that uploads everything I add perfectly well, however my blog there is named Willy Holmes-Spoelder.
That of course is me, my first name, my surname, my profile and fairly recent photograph, taken 6/2008.
This morning I checked the Google search engine: indeed Willy Holmes-Spoelder at profile.typepad.com/emofreeze: top of the list with an article about Gemiler Beach. BUT - !! - no-one looking for information about Gemiler Beach, Kaya Koy, Hisaronu, Oludeniz, holidays-in-South-Turkey could find it, unless they would know me and the name of that particular blog.
So: for the moment: I am on a test run, aiming for GEMILER BEACH to appear in the search engines, and another blog in my BLOGGER stable, BLOGGER provided by Google, seemed to be the next thing to do for me.
Note 1.: If it works: than I have achieved a small *success* and everyone looking for the best, even most un-biased information they shall ever find, can than do some research, read my words before they arrive here.
Note 2.: I live here, you see !! I arrived here (casually) in 1991/92, and between then and NOW,
4th April, 2010 - well you guessed right: quite a lot happened, the good, the bad, the ugly.
Having pre-holiday awareness could save you lots and lots.
My experiences, so-to-say *archived* in my memory-bank, however NEVER history/done-with when it comes to dealing with what usually goes on during particularly *the holiday season*, can be retrieved.
Why not!! It really offended ME, even if some and all of it would be true, to read the terribly negative comments of some English tourists which happened to them 5 !! yes 5 full years ago.
That: never!! What these tourists wanted to put up online, left there to read for others, of course forming their own (negative) opinion, based on information FIVE YEARS OLD:
JUST IS NOT FAIR
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Sincerely, Willy Holmes-Spoelder in Kaya Köyü (which still is the proper/official way to spell the name), Easter Sunday, 4th April, 2010
P.s. Anyone interested can reach me at:
emofree.ws@gmail.com I am just a resident of this beautiful valley Kaya Köyü and have lived here throughout the
year since 1996.
I am able to provide some useful information, but the locals know more than I
do, however do not work with a computer as I can do.
Their command of the English language and some experience to do a bit of Online
Marketing & Promotion (globally even) does not (yet) exist, and they cannot afford to
hire a team of experts to set themselves up online.
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My contribution at and for the moment is: if I can just *help my friends* here a little already NOW, April 2010 than at least that is better than they have it.
From the desk of Willy Holmes-Spoelder - Resident of Kaya Köyü - Easter Monday 05.04.2010
