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2009-10-26T16:14:45-07:00

steve.wilde posted a photo:

I can't remember what this building is called now! And I should have changed the ISO after being the dark! Too much noise.

Tate Oil Tanks 5 [Flickr]

2009-10-26T16:14:33-07:00

steve.wilde posted a photo:

Part of the John Baldessari installation in the Tate Modern''s cavernous oil tanks

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2009-10-26T16:14:17-07:00

steve.wilde posted a photo:

A rather grainy/noisy picture of one of the marvellously stained walls beneath Tate Modern - If only they can keep them and incorporate them into the design! I suspect that won't be the case though.

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2009-10-26T16:14:06-07:00

steve.wilde posted a photo:

Not very professiional looking signage! Long way up though.

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2009-10-26T16:13:51-07:00

steve.wilde posted a photo:

Part of the John Baldessari installation in the Tate Modern''s cavernous oil tanks

Affordable Autumn

2009-10-26T21:05:00.004Z

We were all very tired, with the after effects of last weekends parties and the labours of the week that followed but we headed over to Battersea Park last Thursday for the AAF. I'm not sure the tiredness and free wine did my concentration levels much good but I took a few notes as we wandered around.

For some reason, to me and Sam anyway, this year seemed to be predominantly print orientated. Maybe there are always that many print stands and we haven't really noticed them before.

There was Artichoke, Greenwich Printmakers and Brighton Print Workshop, who all had outstanding works.

Stephen Wassall's Pyrographics on the New British Artists stand impressed me, although we were distracted by the bar opposite!

Panter & Hall had a couple of artists I liked Chris Bushe and Colin Brown

Stephen Walter's Island London Maps on the TAG Fine Arts stand are something that I've seen before but are always a joy to see again.

There were a couple of artists on the Hayloft Gallery stand that caught my eye. Sally Stafford and Jane Dearden

These watercolours by MJForster remind me, a little bit, of those 20's or 30's transport posters for the Great Western Railway. Good though, I like the screen print effect. And I liked Angela Charles' abstracts on the Liberty Gallery stand. Well, I think it was those. I took a card from the stand and they are the most likely to have caught my eye looking at their website!

There were a few overseas galleries that offered a bit of variety too as you do tend to see a lot of work re-appearing every visit. Le Minotaure Gallery - Tel Aviv and Art Master Gallery - Prague

I like the idea of the Open Gallery but I didn't actually see any work there that struck me as a convincing argument for "video painting" but again, it was quite near the bar and I may have been distracted!

Categories: Art, London

Back Underground

2009-10-25T19:24:00.001Z

After spending Friday afternoon beneath Holborn, Saturday afternoon was to be spent in the oil tanks of the Tate Modern. A far more enjoyable experience. The space is vast, the three tanks once held a million gallons of oil and with the spaces around them knocked through the place is a darkened labyrinth.

To coincide with the, Members Only, tour there was a John Baldessari installation spread amongst the various spaces. One screen, divided into quarters, showed parts of The Green Berets, Rosemary's Baby, The Thomas Crown Affair and Planet Of The Apes. The other four showed those four films in their entirety [well, we were only in there 30 minutes but they were full screen]. I think the premise was that all of these films were showing in cinema's in Prague on the night of 20th August 1968, when armies from the Warsaw Pact countries invaded.

The screens seemed to float in the darkness of these big spaces and the soundtracks bounced around the cavernous "rooms" bleeding from one to the other and "remixing" themselves as we walked around to great effect. I sincerely hope the tanks retain their acoustic properties when they open as new gallery spaces in 2013. The space[s] will be devoted to time based media.

We were a bit earlier for this event than yesterdays subterranean quest in Holborn. So we filled in the time by taking a peek at Miroslaw Balka's How It Is; the black steel monolith currently residing in the Turbine Hall. It's impressive in its scale but the impact of walking into a black void is somewhat diluted by the fact there are hundreds of other folk milling around you. Not exactly condusive to any conptemplative thought on its meaning.

The members bar looked chock full so we went for a drink on the 7th floor to watch the river buses buzzing up and down the Thames. In fact the Tate was incredibly busy, no wonder they need to expand. After that we jumped on a number 45 and headed to Loughborough Junction to catch Synecdoche New York at Whirled Cinema.

We had been warned by the Ginger DJ that we'd be bored, but, even though its two hours long [and I find all films way too long] I thought it was justified in this case to stress Caden's seeming inability to discern the passage of time.

Sitting with bottle of Rioja in Whirled is probably more condusive than a hot stuffy cinema mind. Neuroses, psychosis, alternate realities, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton and music by Jon Brion... What's to be bored with?

As the film didn't start nutil 8:30 we decided to eat at The Cambria and had a decidely unspicy, albeit nice, Beef Madras! Luckily the Cambria's Got Talent show that had filled the pub with many folk in dodgy wigs wasn't due to start until 8:30 either, so we escaped that.

Categories: Art, London, Food & Drink, Film

Meanwhile....

2009-10-23T22:56:00.008Z

We spent last two weekends in Lichfield and Brighton, in what appear to be mostly alcohol related activities. Lichfield involved a lot more eating than Brighton! And we looked in at the Book Barge, whilst in Staffordshire. Which is vaguely cultural. Th eBook barge is in Barton under Needwood not far from Anslow where we had a nice lunch at the Burnt Gate.

Just before we left I was frustrated by the refusal of our shit Tiscali DSL connection to, well... connect. So on our return I thought I best buy a new cable before wasting my breath telling Tiscali how crap they are again. I couldn't find one long enough to go round the room so placed the router inconveniently in the middle of the hall and it still wouldn't work. I picked the phone up to waste my breath on what they laughingly call Customer Services to be informed by the recorded voice that I should call from a phone that I am a able to sit in front of the PC and speak from [makes sense]... During which a series of modem like noises whirred through the phone and by the time I was ringing them again from my mobile, in front of the PC, the bloody DSL was working again. So I decided to save my breath. I have no idea how the phone can affect the DSL, surely things are separated at the filter? But I have called them before to say that our TV and internet fucks up every time the phone rings... And what did they say? Try a different phone! Yeah, thanks for that.

Anyway, less of my bleating on about that. Last weekend, well Friday [16th] to be precise, we trained it down to Brighton to visit Kev & Karol etc. But before being sociable we sloped off to the Laines to buy an engagement ring and I did the one-knee-thing on the beach, betwixt piers, as the sun set. Cue much hysteria everywhere we went as a sparkly Art Deco ring was flashed! And much champagne was popped open in return! Our first port of call was Kerry & Rob's [very loosely] Spaced themed cocktails evening. I think I made a very good go of trying every single drink considering we had started early with Kev & Karol but by the time we got to bed at 5:00am I was grateful for a bit of a lie down!

Somehow, we were up again at about 10:00 or 11:00 on Saturday morning. Bloody Mary's and bacon sandwiches seem to set us straight and as Sam went off to the shops with Kerry , Me and Kev got to grips with his newly acquired APC40. But not without his PC putting up a fight. When I left home on the Friday I was despairing at the fact that I had no time to rebuild my own PC, which had gone into a sulk earlier in the week, just after the DSL line had remedied itself. I had started trying to repair it but it was in an eternal reboot loop when we left... Within minutes of looking at Kev's PC it was doing exactly the same thing! But, luckily for us, his played ball within a couple of hours and let us get to work on a tune.

At around 11:00pm, I think, we braved the cold to wander round to Paul & Sarah's Disco Dungeon for a bit of a party. None of us feeling over lively but determined not to miss out. Kev broke first and wandered home to bed around 3:00am while I sat on the sofa upstairs talking crap to anyone who would sit still long enough. DJ's came and went, seemingly between club engagements; sets were played , drinks were drunk and time slid by. I have no idea what time it was by the time I headed downstairs for a bit of a boogie. I also have no idea how long I was down there but eventually the place petered out and we adjourned back upstairs. At some point Kev returned, more supplies were sent out for and daylight came and went.

Come 9:00pm we had to find some food and a bed. Within an hour we were eating an Indian back at Kev & Karol's before crashing until midday on Monday. The Bloody Mary's weren't quite as effective that morning so we wandered out in to the cold and had drinks at the Hop Poles before popping into Jamie's Italian for a late lunch. We picked a good time as it was between lunch and dinner services so got a table easy and some hearty portions... Unfortunately for me. As the Wild mushroom ravioli I had for a starter was probably enough but it was followed by a monster porcetta, to which I couldn't do justice. After all the olives, bread and chickpea popcorn we had to start it was all too much. It didn't help that Kev ordered a portion of each of the three different types of chips between us, of which the polenata chips were the most fantastical. It was all good though and the staff were very attentive and informative. We need to go back with better appetites.

After popping back to Kev & Karol's for a couple of hours "recuperation" we managed to get ourselves back to London. After which it has been non-stop but my PC is finally rebuilt, although the DSL still works when it feels like it!

Last night was the Affordable Art Fair drinks reception, which meant meeting up the Kev & Karol again as well as catching up with Marianne from Gallery One and talking weddings and anniversaries. Today's is Kev & Karol's tenth. Lawks is it ten years since that Best Man experience? Strange AAF this year. Mostly because it was prints rather than paintings that caught our eyes. More of that in a separate post.

Suffice to say today was a serious lie in before making it to the Chord installation at the Kingsway tram subway, by the skin of our teeth... Mostly thanks to the roadworks around Brockwell Park delaying the 68 bus. I can't understand the thinking behind Conrad Shawcross not wanting anyone to photograph the installation. Without the appropriate lighting and adequate camera, surely no one is ever going to capture anything worth reproducing commercially. Most of the group we were in weren't that interested in the work anyway. It was the fact that we were able to look around the tram subway that drew us all there. I just have to see how my pictures of the tunnel itself came out now. It was one of those to flash or not to flash scenarios. I should have taken a tripod!

On the way home we stopped off at Lowlander for some seriously strong lager [Chimay, A festive Kriek called Glubier and De Graal] followed by a visit to Sophie's Steak House, which was surprisingly good for somewhere so huge, but did require a walk over Waterloo Bridge to wake us up. We thought we might make ourselves comfy in the Terrace Bar at the National Theatre, but it seems to have resorted to closing at 8:00pm rather than the 1:00am of our last couple of visits.

Categories: Art, London, Photography, Food & Drink

Anyone Seen The Lid?

2009-10-05T13:31:00.005Z

Should I be concerned that I am beginning to be followed by bars on Twitter? First it was Plan B, in Brixton, then The Loft in Clapham and now The Legion Bar in Shoerditch. Actually they are all owned by the same people, so it's not that weird I guess. I'm not sure that they always were though and I suspect that Plan B might be a recent addition to the fold as it has only just re-opened after being closed for some time.

We're still recovering from Steve & Jess' wedding reception on Saturday. I remember the cab journey from Westminster to Victoria and have a vague recollection of the hotel bar, then the next thing I know we are back at ours and picking random post punk tunes from Spotify. We must have got a cab back and stopped at an off license too! I think Jake was pretty surprised to roll in at 8:00am to find us in a worse state than him and still going!

Suffice to say that not much happened yesterday. A very late breakfast, bloody mary's and a few futile attempts at coding pages for my new website. I bought the stevewilde.com domain name last week, so I will be migrating some stuff from here to there before the end of the year. I was surprised that we had any vodka left actually... No lid on the bottle but at least it wasn't empty.

Today hasn't been much more productive but at least I'm dressed today! Still can't find the lid of the vodka bottle though...

Categories: Blogging, Food & Drink

Blogger Still

2009-09-27T09:24:00.006Z

Finally getting used to the reality of not getting up to go to the beach every day. At least the sun has shown its face this weekend. It was fair scorching in SW2 yesterday. Someone has given me some nasty germs though. Woke up with a sore throat and cough on Wednesday after meeting Kev for a few beers in Victoria the night before. Not that I suspect that the two events are connected in any way.

We discovered a couple of new places [well to us anyway] in Clapham on Friday. Big Fat Panda is a cheap Chinese. And very good too. Not huge portions but fair and although its a relatively small menu for a Chinese there are a few variations that make a pleasant change. I'm not a huge fan of Chinese food so it must be pretty good if I liked it! After that we had a mosey down Northcote Road and popped into the Holy Drinker [presumably after the Joseph Roth book, The Legend of the Holy Drinker] for a couple, which is a nice little bar with a selection of weird and wonderful beers and was showing a B&W compilation of dance movies. Well, not movies but home movies and documentary pieces spliced together and projected on a curtain in the window. No soundtrack to it but highly entertaining.

Knocked up a great breakfast yesterday, even if I do say so myself... Scrambled egg, sun-dried tomatoes and basil pesto on toast.

Plenty to do coming up. Central Perk pop-up and NYC shops round Carnaby Street. The London Restaurant Festival, Anish Kapoor and the Affordable Art Fair. Photography Book Now London Meet Up... And of course the Ice-Creamists at Selfridge's... By which time it'll be time to piss off for another week of sunshine in Tenerife. Woohoo!

Better get some work done before then I suppose. I've decided to leave this blog where it is as Blogger seem to have bucked their ideas up since I got back from Turkey. think I'll just post any art/music related posts to Posterous in future, as I do like the look of it. Someone needs to clear this flat up now though and I fear one of those people is going to be me!

Categories: London, Food & Drink, Art, Photography

Catch A Tortoise

2009-09-14T23:59:00.004Z

Our flight isn’t until the early evening so after we pack, check out and leave our bags somewhere we buy a few souvenirs and catch a dolmus up to Gokbel to look at the views over Iztuzu. I instruct Sam to look out for a tortoise to photograph as she spotted one from the bus the previous day. And she does indeed spot one down the road. We walk quite a bit, stopping at one of the pancake places to buy a jar of honey before hailing down the dolmus back into Dalyan for lunch.

We have yet to see Beyaz Gul in daylight so head back there for a seat by the river and try their “Wine Plate”. I’m not sure why they call it that as it is a plate of cheese, but it is served with a glass of wine. Most of the cheese is some sort of goats cheese and its all pretty salty but very nice. The bits we can’t eat are fed to the fish in the river, where we also spot a walk snake swimming past. Despite being full I have to have one last piece of Baklava with my coffee before we ask to waiter to take our photo...

Unfortunately I don’t check his handiwork until we get home and discover a bloody great finger obscuring the top of our heads. Ah well!

One last glass of Raki and it’s off to the airport. It all goes smoothly at Dalaman, apart from the bar being extortionate. A pint of Efes is 13TL., which is 200% dearer than in town! Back at Gatwick though, “airport improvements” mean that we have to queue for an hour to get through passport control. Luckily we aren’t pulled over by Customs, who are having a field day with quite a few peoples suitcases and Sam hears mention of the dreaded rubber gloves as we walk by!

Categories: Food & Drink, Travel

See my flickr set: Turkey 2009

Time To Go Home

2009-09-13T23:55:00.001Z

Our last full day today and we had originally intended to get the rowing boat across the river and walk back up to Caunos. But as the weather looks like its back to normal we decide to go back to Iztuzu for more sunshine and reading. We had been warned that the beach would be busy with locals on Sunday but it seems no busier than usual to us and we manage to get 5 hours reading in before a little walk along the beach and ice cream and the dolmus back.

For our last dinner it can only be Kosk. Couscous salad again, yoghurt, bread, cheese and olives. Sam has a spicy stir fry and I have cheese and aubergine, which is kind of moussaka like, but not quite, served up with bulghar wheat. We are the last two there with our free fruit and Turkish coffees watching the kids playing in the street late into the night.

Categories: Food & Drink, Travel

See my flickr set: Turkey 2009

Hot Foot

2009-09-12T23:51:00.000Z

It’s still partly cloudy this morning, with a few spots of rain. We had intended to go back to the beach today as it’s market day on Saturday’s and the town will be busy but I’m not too sure as I’m still in some pain. We skip the hotel breakfast and have a lie in and decide to take a walk along the road to Gokbel that we had cycled before to photograph some of the intriguing flowers and vegetation.

We have a late breakfast at Atay Dustlar Sufrasi, next to the market and opposite the dolmus stop, where we can watch the tractors full of melons etc coming into town for market. By the time we are finished it’s sunny again and consequently our walk is scorching. I don’t think we had realised how hot it has been all the time we have been here as the beach has a breeze to take the edge off it and we’ve been lying around mostly!

On our way back into town we find a little Art Gallery/Café that wouldn’t look out of place in a little English seaside town. So we stop for mint tea under the shade of a large rubber tree.

The rest of the day we read by the pool until it clouds over again so we pop next door for kebabs, which for some reason are more full than on our previous visit, which is unfortunate as it means we can’t finish our evening meal back at Beyuz Gul. Although Sam just has a salad and I have chicken skewers, which gets shared with “Vodka” the dog. We have coffee and liqueurs and head back to bed.

Categories: Food & Drink, Travel

See my flickr set: Turkey 2009

Come Rain Come Shi*e

2009-09-11T23:46:00.001Z

It looks cloudy out of the window again this morning and I can’t face an omelette for breakfast, so Sam brings me some bread up to the room, which I eat before we head out to catch the dolmus to the beach. It’s nice with bright blue skies at the beach and before long I’ve dozed off catching up on the sleep I missed last night, only to wake up a couple of hours later to find it’s completely clouded over and is starting to rain. That combined with my stomach hurting again sends us scurrying back to the hotel to continue reading on the balcony.

I can’t fathom out why about a dozen full water taxis pass by heading to the beach. About an hour later as thunder rattles overhead they all come back again along with a couple of low flying army helicopters and a water ambulance. With that excitement over the rain stops and by 5.00 its all calm again. No sign of the cloud lifting though but its still plenty warm. I decide to take some Immodium, just in case, followed by three medicinal Raki’s before we head back to Saki for dinner.

We are lucky to get a table. Many of the restaurants only have outdoor seating so anywhere with any slightly covered areas are busy tonight. White beans in sauce and hummus to start, followed by spicy chicken and chicken skewers. Excellent food again and we feel quite smug watching people being turned away once it is full.

There is more heavy rain in the night, so loud it wakes us up.

Categories: Food & Drink, Travel

See my flickr set: Turkey 2009

How Many Islands?

2009-09-10T23:38:00.002Z

We are sailing from Gocek around the 12 islands today. There are more than 12 islands apparently but 12 is a lucky number or something… Or, depending on who you believe, there are only 4 islands!

Gocek is like another Turkey altogether. There are luxury yachts everywhere! God knows how much money is floating in these marina’s! Ataturk's former yacht is moored in the bay but there are far more modern one’s that look to be in the Russian oligarch league to me.

We are aboard a Gulit which stops at various bays and coves for snorkelling and swimming during the day and come the hour we drop anchor for a meal aboard the boat. Somebody landed a couple of small tuna on the way out but they don’t materialise at lunch time! At the various stops enterprising chaps appear in small boats selling cakes, ice cream or water sport based excitement; in the form of banana boats, water ski-ing and parascending. One chap has a crack at water ski-ing and an 84 year old woman who has recently had a heart op does the 200m high parascending experience! Sam tags along on the parascending trip to experience the speed boat. I just sit in the sun on the yacht with a cold beer.

On the way back we stop at a restaurant called Ley Ley, which is a bit of a way outside of Dalyan and has a bizarre bird gimmick. Supposedly you can feed tame storks that walk from table to table, although we only see one in the distance and a massive nest up a tree. But there are quails and ducks and some ostriches as well. It all smells a bit bird poo-ish and we only have a drink before leaving as the lady tries to press gang us all into returning for a meal.

There will be no more food for me today though as I start to experience some nasty stomach cramps on the way home which will keep me awake all night. Damn, I never get “holiday tummy”, must have been the salad at lunchtime. Whatever it is it keeps me awake all night.

Categories: Food & Drink, Travel

See my flickr set: Turkey 2009

What???

2009-09-09T23:27:00.002Z

Blimey, didn’t even realise it was 999 day today until we got back! What were we doing at 09:09 this morning? Probably still in bed or eating an omelette! Or somewhere in the shit, shower, shave procedure in between the bed and the omelette! Not very auspicious is it?

Blue skies again this morning. So we head back to the beach for some more reading on sunbed action. There are some clouds over the mountains still but they’re in the opposite direction to that which we’re headed. There a few spots of rain again in the evening when we get back to Dalyan but 30 minutes later its sunny again.

Tonight we decide to try Safrum, which is the “posh” restaurant in town, inasmuch as it looks as though an Interior Designer may have been consulted and they have white tablecloths! No doubt that will be reflected in the price though, as it is also opposite the tombs and on the riverside.

Service is a bit slow but the place is full before long and its not a small place. We some huge puffy bread thing with very garlicky butter along with our samphire [also incredibly garlicky] to start. I order something nigh on unpronounceable. Coketme Kebab. There are accents on the "C" and the"O" which I can't reproduce here. The waiter tells me how to say it properly and we think nothing more of it… Until it arrives at the table and another waiter asks “who ordered this”? Then informs me that I can’t have it until I say what it is. Cheeky blighter!

It’s a plate of meat and onions [crunchy] with potato and yoghurt and it’s fantastic but way too much. One of the cats gets to share a bit with me. Sam had the lamb chops.

We don’t hang about for dessert as I want to find a bar showing England v Croatia, which we do. I get chatting to a chap from Manchester, who it turns out is staying 3 doors along from us in our hotel! It’s straight to bed after the match though as we are sailing from Gocek tomorrow and its an early start.

Categories: Food & Drink, Travel

See my flickr set: Turkey 2009

Kingfisher Alert

2009-09-08T23:19:00.001Z

Last nights steak needs some working off today so we set about looking for some push bikes to rent. The first place that we try, as suggested by the guide book, no longer does them. But the shop next door does; and 5 minutes later we are cycling off to Gokbel. No deposit, just our names, hotel name and our room number… And all for 10TL/day per bike.

We christened the bikes “Turkey” and “Lurky”. Mind you, within about a mile I realise that the brakes don’t work on my bike and as I crash in to the back of Sam a spoke snaps and shoots into the gears. I wind it round the other spokes, Sam patches her leg up the best she can and we carry on.

We went to see the Sulungar Lake, which we have passed in the dolmus to the beach. It’s about 6 or 7km from Dalyan, just before the road climbs up the mountain to the little village of Gokbel. There is an interesting riverside restaurant en route as well, called Golbasi, which we later find out is Turkish for riverside.

It's a lovely quiet spot and I suspect doesn’t get much passing trade. Here I satisfy all my Kingfisher photography requirements, taking about 40 shots. There are also loads of terrapins in the river that you can feed bread to. As well as ducks, peacocks, cats, dogs and rabbits. And the food is good too, but we are bit hot and bothered to eat what we order from the cycling. I blame the potholes. You have to grip tightly to stay in the saddle and are pretty tensed up when you get off the bikes. Their fresh pomegranate juice is amazing though. We get through a couple of those each and 2 litres of water before setting off again. Most of the road from Dalyan to the beach is pomegranate orchards.

As we cycled back we are amazed to hear distant thunder and over the mountains a very large cloud formation is building up. The TV in the hotel reception had been showing scenes of flash floods in Istanbul for the previous two days and when we get back to the hotel there is some concern that we will get the same amount of rain fall in Dalyan. I’m more concerned that we will get any rain at all. I can stay at home to get rained on! We needn’t fear [today] as there is a small shower when we get back to the hotel and in an hour it has all blown over.

Tonight’s meal is at Metin Pide, where we are greeting by one of the “cheeky chappy” waiters who insists on saying stuff like “Alwight” to us. He actually sounds more Australian than the cockney accent I assume he is trying to affect and after a while it gets a bit grating. But when he decides to sit down and chat to us at the end of that night it becomes apparent that he genuinely thought we were another couple that he had seen a couple of nights previously and thought he was continuing a joke with. He must have thought we were incredibly rude or stupid until then!

Other than most of the staff being slightly arse-ish the food was good. But the dishes were way too big. We just had garlic mushrooms and bread to start and Sam had what I think was called Daner Kebab, which was a very spicy oven dish. I had a lamb dish in a clay pot that would have been more than adequate for two. It was similar to a casserole really and bloody lovely… So much so that I managed to eat it all somehow. Must have been all that cycling!

Categories: Food & Drink, Travel

See my flickr set: Turkey 2009

Life's A Beach

2009-09-07T23:14:00.000Z

Today we feel the call of Iztuzu beach again. 11TL return for two on the dolmus and 6TL for 2 sunbeds and an umbrella for the day, with cold Efes and very hot pancakes on hand. What’s not to like?

The pancakes are made in an incredibly hot hut by one woman sitting on the floor rolling out wafer thin bits of pastry [these aren’t Dutch pancakes] and filling them with mince, cheese, spinach or sweet fillings. The filled pancakes are folded and slapped on a hot griddle. The place would never get past any sort of Health and Safety in this country but the resulting pancakes are delicious.

More reading on the sunbeds and I am almost two books down out of my over ambitious supply of seven. More about books later. Suffice to say, I didn’t really need to buy two more at Gatwick on the way out here!

Tonight we feel we should pop into Ali Baba’s and see if we can fathom out which of them is our rep Alison’s husband. We don’t. But, once again, we are prevented from over-ordering from a chilled cabinet. Mainly because any sort of starter isn’t going to leave any room for the massive “Chateau Briande” that we are talked into having. And are we glad that we are. Never have we had a better piece of steak, even if it was enormous. We are both very pleasantly surprised. A couple of free Turkish coffee’s and liqueurs later we stagger back home to bed. Too full to sleep... So we manage to polish off the bottle of Raki that we had snuck back to our room earlier.

Categories: Food & Drink, Travel

See my flickr set: Turkey 2009

Jazz Wine... Nice!

2009-09-06T23:10:00.000Z

Today we are reading by the pool again and have a spot of lunch at the hotel. Sam has Calamari and I have an aubergine salad and we share an incredibly garlicky yoghurt dish.

In the evening we head off to Beyaz Gul, which is near Kosk and Caretta Caretta. We have spiced potato in filo pastry and cheesy mushrooms to start. Followed by spicy meatballs and lamb chops. One of the more expensive meals we’ve had but a beautiful restaurant, with no hassle on the door to come in and we later realise a third of the bill was actually the house wine, which was about 35TL. But another place we know we will visit again. It is also, apparently a tiny boutique hotel, which we will be looking into the price of. Even the jazz was bearable! Although their dog, “vodka” did sing along to one track. If only I could remember who it was by.

Categories: Food & Drink, Travel

See my flickr set: Turkey 2009

Late Lake Show

2009-09-05T22:59:00.000Z

Today we are back on the river for a trip to the Roman [well mostly] archaeological site at Caunos, a little way up the river. Our guide Zaf is very informative but there is no way I am going to retain all this info in holiday mode. The site is pretty big as far as my experience of such things goes. Including an Ottoman Acropolis, a Roman Theatre and a Byzantine chapel. As the sun goes down we head back to the boat to find the table has been laid for dinner and before long we are heading back to the lake for a moonlit meal.

The lake was perfectly still with just he sound of frogs and bats peeping, other than us eating and chatting of course. From out of nowhere the captain rustled up some potato salad, a green salad, a mixed vegetable salad, yoghurt and bread, followed by meatballs and chicken. After eating the lights on the boat were turned off and we bobbed about in the moonlight looking up at the stars. There was plenty to drink and plenty of hilarious stories told as we headed back to Dalyan. I fired up the G1 at one pint and the Google Sky app said we were under a constellation called Pegasus but as it was nigh on impossible to get any 3G coverage most of the time I wasn’t convinced if it was correct or not but I guess the GPS doesn’t need 3G. Anyway I turned it off pretty promptly as the T-Mobile charges for non EU countries is quite steep and I could see myself having a few beers and completely forgetting about it until the next day!

We had a few more drinks, at the pool bar in the hotel, before bed. Where the guy working the bar is trying to cope with the well intentioned help of three of his ever so slightly drunk, non-working mates… Who give up once they drop a glass.

Categories: Food & Drink, Travel

See my flickr set: Turkey 2009

Bite Yer Ankles

2009-09-04T22:44:00.000Z

After going missing yesterday, the omelette man is back for breakfast today. After breakfast we go to the restaurant next door for coffees and to watch them feed the river turtles chicken, which they seem to love for some reason. So do the restaurants cats and they don’t look too impressed with having to share it. One of them takes a plunge into the river, in a vain attempt to liberate a piece, but manages to scramble back ashore somehow.

The call to prayer from the mosque sounds amazing from the hotel, bouncing off of two parts of the mountain opposite and adding some lovely natural reverb to the dronier parts and almost harmonising with itself. One of those occasions that you wish you were sad enough to carry recording equipment around with you!

We spend the day reading by the pool, breaking off for kebabs next door for lunch before showering and heading out for dinner again later. We make our way to one of the restaurants away from the centre, Kervan Saray, which is no less busy for the its location. Oddly, despite being away from the river we are both victims of mosquito bites for the first time. And all around the ankles! Short mosquitoes? Still, they don’t interrupt our dinner too much. Meze’s again. Beans in tomato sauce, halloumi and an amazingly smokey aubergine thing. Then minced lamb and garlic on skewers and chicken and vegetables.

Categories: Food & Drink, Travel

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Turtle Wipeout

2009-09-03T22:52:00.000Z

After breakfast we decide to catch the dolmus to the other end of Iztuzu beach. It’s cheaper than the river taxi and this end is mostly frequented by locals so should be less crowded. Also there is a hospital for the wounded Loggerhead turtles that fall victim to outboard motors and fishing line. It’s a bit of a sorry sight. Some of them may be in their plastic tanks for up to two years while big holes in their shells heal up and I don’t know what will become of the one that has lost both front flippers. These turtles, that choose Iztuzu beach as their nesting ground, have been around for millions of years and are on the verge of extinction.

After a busy day reading on a sunbed we get a dolmus back into Dalyan where I am promptly befriended by a dog that attempts to lick my legs off!

And so it's dinner time again… And this time it is Saki; just a short walk from the Tezcan Hotel, where we are staying. Different inasmuch as there is no one trying to lure you in off the street to look at their menu. In fact, they don’t have a menu, just a cold cabinet with about 30 dishes in, which they talk you through and then warn you that you are ordering too much. Also, they have the cheapest house wine that we have encountered do far. Twenty Turkish Lire for a bottle. Which is approximately £8.00, but still more than I was expecting to pay before we set off on holiday.

Despite the Turkish Lire being better value than the Euro Turkey was certainly cheaper 5 years ago. Lord help them if they finally join the EU. We only had the meze’s as we weren’t too hungry but we still ordered five before they stopped us. They all looked amazing. We opted for the stuffed aubergine, a yoghurt dish, courgette fritters, peppers and garlic and a couscous salad. Before we knew it we were the last ones left in the place and they were clearing up around us. Even the gecko over the lamp on the ceiling had gone to bed. It must have been the entertainment: The restaurant dog left bones everywhere and saw off a frog and the rose seller!

Categories: Food & Drink, Travel

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Wallowing In Mud

2009-09-02T22:35:00.000Z

Today we are up at 7.30 and not feeling too lively. I realise that this is probably because our bodies are interpreting this as 5.30 really and I’d be just as bad if it was 2 hours later at home!

The reason for this is a trip to the mud baths and sulphur thermals. The smell of the sulphur so early in the day is getting me gagging as we get off the boat and I’m not sure if I will be able to keep my breakfast down when we go in but it actually smells less once you are in there. We wade about for 5 or 10 minutes knee deep in muddy water, bending over trying to scoop up enough to cover each other with, before standing in the sun for ten minutes to bake dry.

We don’t do nearly as good a job as some other folk but we are grateful to get it off once it has dried. The showers are bloody cold and getting into the 39 degree thermal baths isn’t so bad after that. It is all supposed to make you look 10 years younger. I’m not sure about that, but after we had showered off the sulphurous water and got dressed again we felt extremely chilled and had amazingly smooth skin. All ready to work on a nice new tan.

The boat pootles us up to Lake Koycegiz. Which looks breathtaking it’s so still. It has to be over 25km long and is below sea level, so the river that flows past our hotel room performs the feat of flowing away from the sea! We hang around for a while until it is time to head back to Dalyan for lunch.

Lunch is at the Starfish Café and consists of meze followed by chicken, meatballs or fish. Of the Meze’s; we have black eyed beans, white beans in tomato sauce, an incredibly hot harissa sauce, tomatoes, cucumber, goats cheese and bread. I am warned that the harissa is really hot about three seconds after ladling a mountain of it onto my plate. I feel duty bound to eat it all after that. Somehow I manage with a couple of cold beers.

Back onboard the boat we head up river to the beach, stopping off in front of the Lycian tombs that face our hotel. They are pretty impressive and don’t look the 2500 years old that they are. Earthquakes have not helped them survive the years but they are still there! We spot 6 Kingfishers on the rest of our journey to the beach and the next two weeks will become a challenge for me to try to get a decent photograph of the speedy little blighters.

Iztuzu beach is 7km long and the end that the water taxis drop you off at is also the one where all the tourists from Marmaris etc arrive on day trips. It’s quite early when we get there and pretty deserted but we are told that the area with sun beds fills up quickly and walking for ten minutes or so to the left will find you a lovely quiet spot.. Indeed it does. We are troubled only by a couple of passers by and crabs on sorties to and from the waters edge.

Back in our room later that evening we hear the first of many calls to prayer from the local mosque and while sitting across the river from it later on, awaiting our meal, we see that the minaret is adorned with many speakers and coloured neon bulbs.

The tandir is tender, falling off the bone, and served up with vegetables, rice and chips. We gather a few cat and dog shaped friends before we are finished. All of the restaurants seem to get adopted by particular cats and dogs. It’s as if the animals meet up and decide who will haunt which restaurant. None of them look too stray, compared to those we saw in St. Lucia for example. One of the cats has an unfortunate patch of fur making him look like a gormless version of Gizmo from Gremlins.

Categories: Food & Drink, Travel

See my flickr set: Turkey 2009

First Day Food

2009-09-01T22:17:00.000Z

First morning and we go down to see what the Turkish breakfast is all about. A mixture of bread, goats cheese, tomato, melon and olives… Or there is cereal and honey to be had. And a very smiley waiter by the pool knocks up omelettes with a choice of cheese, tomato, mushroom, salami and pepper fillings. Or, as I had, the whole lot!

A collared dove flutters down mid omelette to drink at the edge of the pool and raises one or the other wing whilst stooping to drink in a sort of “Wahaaay” kind of manner. Weird!

After breakfast we head off to meet Alison, our rep, at another hotel along the river; and I manage to stick my foot in a pile of dog shit getting out of a mini bus. Not a good start to the day but we are all clued up on the local amenities and sites to see. We decide to stay close to the hotel for the first day and acclimatise ourselves to the heat. It’s in the low thirties. Nice.

Oddly, after all that breakfast we are hungry again come lunchtime so we stop at one of the restaurants on the square by the mosque. Koskem advertise Pide, Turkish pizza, which we practically lived on during our first visit to Turkey. We get one each, which is a mistake as they are far bigger than we recall.

Aside from sitting beside the hotel pool for the rest of the day, the only other thing we do is eat again. Before choosing somewhere to eat tonight, we saunter round to the Prince of Caunos to book their Lamb Tandir, which needs 24 hours warning and they only serve on Wednesdays.

Tonight's meal is at a lovely little restaurant called Kosk. It is across the road from the place we were in last night, with no view of the temples, a staff of three and it is amazing. We have meze’s to start again. It’s the thing to do!

Another yoghurt dish [well, the same one as yesterday actually – It’s a staple], another chilli plate, but a variation this time and we are given this one on the house just for enquiring about it. Couscous, fresh beans, olives, cheese and bread. I had meatballs and Sam had a lamb shish, which were both served with pilau rice and grilled onion and tomato. We are give a free plate of watermelon, apple and nectarine after and Sam’s Turkish coffee comes with a little arrangement of flowers around the saucer. We know we will be back here before the fortnight is through.

Categories: Food & Drink, Travel

See my flickr set: Turkey 2009

To Dalyan

2009-08-31T21:27:00.000Z

We arrived in Dalyan early evening, just in time to unpack and get out and start trying one of the 120 restaurants the place has to offer as the sun went down. I wish I could remember the names of the dishes we had but I’m going to have to resort to calling them "aubergine thing" or what have you in most cases for these posts.

Left: View from our room

We tried Carreta Carreta for our first night. While the food was good the waiters were more concerned with chatting up any single women in the restaurant and the prices reflected the view of the tombs across the river rather than the quality of the food. The food was good but we would come to realise that there is far better to be had at cheaper prices in Dalyan.

We had a Meze of a yoghurt, garlic and mint dish. A fantastic tomato, chilli and onion plate. Stuffed aubergine, stuffed peppers, vine leaves and bread. And I had to have a baklava on my first night as well.

Categories: Food & Drink, Travel

See my flickr set: Turkey 2009

SW4 And Beyond

2009-08-30T17:14:00.005Z

It has to be said that there was a bit of a user interface issue going on whilst trying to tweet from SW4 yesterday but the keyobard had its part to play as well. Trying to type on the teeny keyboard, the Touchpal keyboard was no improvement by the way, in a darkened tent full of people or a 10 deep beer queue at the bar is going to lead to a few mistypes. Unfortunately the back button is right above the send button... Hence the gibber! No, honestly, that's what it was.

Richie Hawtin was good but I'm not sure if he was using Ableton or not as I couldn't really detect anything out of the ordinary about his set... And he didn't tweet the tunes he was playing as they happened so I suspect he wasn't a computer at all.

We missed Steve Lawler completely queueing for beer. 50 minutes in a queue is absolutely ridiculous. We bought 4 drinks each in the end and then sat out in the sun with the fantastically mad folk we met outside the Shake It tent. Festivals bring out some intersting folk but yesterday seemed to have more that usual.

We staggered back into the tent for a bit of Dubfire and it was after that it all became a bit blurred. Did we see Layo & Bushwacka? I'm not sure! I didn't notice two blokes at any given time and I'm sure Dubfire re-appeared at some point. After discovering that the North bar was considerably less rammed than the West and it was near enough to the Main Stage to guarantee a bit of entertainment while we queued I suspect we heard some of main acts but I couldn't say who though.

Somehow we managed to get a cab home and pack Kev off back to Brighton. Great weather, lovely crowd, really badly organised beer tents. If they can do it OK in Hyde park then surely it can be done any where else. They claim there isn't the room for a snaking queue [a la theme parks] but the amount of space that 10+ deep people take up at the bar really can't take up much less space. Sort it out or let people bring their own drink in. That is obviously all that the security on the gates were there to stop.

Anyhoo... We've spent the day in the Rosendale fending off the after effects with lunch, wine and the Sunday papers. I'm now trying to muster up the energy to pack a bag for the morning.

I'm hoping that I can get the Zemanta "Bubble" feature working as well. I'll be dual posting this to both Blogger and Posterous with a view to moving my "blogging needs" to Posterous in future. Either feeding into this site or hosting it on theirs.

Categories: Music, London

QWERTY Sounds Like The Right Place

2009-08-27T20:12:00.007Z

Well, I didn't expect that to happen. It appears Apple have approved Spotify's iPhone App! So does that mean we get one for Android or not now? I wonder if I can get 7Digital to add my tunes to the ones available to download via Spotify. I suspect not. I don't think it includes their Indiestores.

After raving about Layar the other day I have come across a couple more "Augmented Reality" apps for the Android. Gamaray and its accompanying Tweetworld layer are next to useless. And the ability to add a 3-D object is far too clunky [well, doesn't work!] even with 3G activated. I uninstalled it all almost immediately.

Wikitude however is promising. It has the ability to add your own POI [Points of interst], via their website, which can be displayed on your phone; and although there doesn't appear to be any effective filering on the website there are some basic choices on the Android app. It's going to need a lot more to filter out the crap that will appear if it takes off though. I just added my local pub and it was tweeted to their twitter account along with the others being added and I estimate a new POI approximately every 3 minutes.

The phone app doesn't appear to refresh in real-time, but that might be asking a bit much. In fact my entry still hasn't appeared after 30 mins and restarting the app!

They claim they are the only AR type app to allow user content to be added but I'm not sure that is strictly true. Layar's, er, layers include Brightkite and FlickAR, which both draw their information from users with accounts on those sites. Whether you need to tag things in a certain way for them to appear in Layar or it includes everything I can't fathom out yet. I've not come anything of mine from either sites on there yet.

The only other bugbear with Wikitude is that a lot of content for London entries appears to be in German or Dutch, at least on the website it is. But then it appears to be the Dutch that are leading the pack with AR developments so why not!

Of course all of these things work better with 3G turned [apart from Gamaray it seems] on but that combined with GPS is a drain on your battery and my spare hasn't turned up yet. The charger to charge phone and spare simultaneously has though.

I'm going on about this phone a bit again aren't I? I've also downloaded the TouchPal keyboard this week. To see if it gives you the larger keyboard it promises. Which it does but there are some weird options, including a sort of half QWERTY, with two letters per key. Not as confusing as it sounds at first but it takes some getting used to. The full size keyboard only appears to work in landscape.

The only trouble with these things is they make you realise just how bad your eyesight is!

Right, it's SW4 on Saturday, where I will be augmenting my own reality, and I want to be there early enough to see Richie Hawtin and check his tweets of the tunes he's playing "as they happen". I expect it'll be a long day but I will attempt to update you all via "the phone" before my eyesight gets too blurred!

Categories: Web, Photography, Blogging, Film, Music, Technology

Purged

2009-08-23T20:10:00.003Z

For the past week I've been unsubscribing from newsletters and the like to try and get my inbox under control. I've also had an unfollow purge on Twitter and deleted a shedload of RSS feeds.

As a consequence of this I bookmarked a lot of pages that needed one last look at to decide if these are for keeps or not. Some have made it to Evernote and tonight I'm going in for the final cull, which appear to be mostly things that I had thought that I might blog about at some point.

The final step in winning back some time is of course, not to blog at all! And to that end I've bought a pile of new Moleskine's and some 0.35mm pens from Muji to get myself working offline more. It'll never work of course but it's a good excuse for buying stationery!

So let's see what we have left...

Hello Vino will text you wine advice if you text word 'HELLOVINO' to 368266. They have an iPhone app too but no sign of an Android one.

I must get into the habit of using Birdhive. And so should you. Birdhive is a way for people to share any creative projects they've found through Twitter. If you are going to bookmark something anyway... Why not share?

These links from Mashable might help too.

Peter Miller's Polaroid Self Portrait technique is worth another look if you've seen it before.

I've got to see if Map My Page really works and I should check to see if there is anything I fancy seeing/doing during London Digital Week.

Wired's 10 Weird Ways To Distribute Music is an interesting read.

Hey that wasn't much was it! Maybe I should try rationalising all the bits of paper lying around here next.

Categories: Music, Art, London, Web, Photography, Food & Drink

Little Red Droidness Takes To The Tate

2009-08-22T20:50:00.009Z

I've managed to drag myself away from the G1 for a bit here and there, but excuse me if I bang on about it a bit for a while. I know loads of folk have had one of these for a while now but I just want to say what my favourite apps at the moment are...

I've started re-using Brightkite now I have an app for it and a very good one at that. You'll see why further down the page. Twitdroid appears to be the best Android Twitter app and also has geo-locative features.

Astrid synchs with my Remember The Milk tasks. Although I'm torn between using RTM or the GTDInbox for GMail Firefox add-on at the moment.

I've been usng the Barcode Scanner for QR codes quite a bit already, and I didn't think I'd find too many sites to try that on yet. That's prompted me to start using Delivr again for URL shortening; for tweets and for generating matching QR codes. Delivr has mobile features in the US that are not yet available here, but I had a very prompt response from them when I queried the availability of this in the UK. It'll come when they get out of beta and get the funding. Check them out.

My Tracks is very efficient but the GPS really does take it out of the battery, hence me ordering a spare and charger for it. Being able to plan trips using My Maps and being able to view and/or edit them on your phone is great too. And recording tracks and placing markers along the way is a boon as well. But, other than Budget Droid and the Shopping List tool the thing I've been obsessed with this week is Layar.

Bloody amazing! Fire it up and select either a Tweetmondo, Brightkite or Wikipedia layer [there are more but these are the busiest in the UK]. Move your phone's camera lens around until you see things starting to be picked up on the radar and before long you can see who else is tweeting in the vicinity, as long as they are signed up to Tweetmondo. Or you can see where people have checked In or left notes on Brightkite. Or you can see which buildings/places of interest have Wikipedia entries and jump to them. I can see a lot of potential for this tool and I really didn't think this sort of thing was anywhere near being commerically available. So I'm on a mission to get some useful info into Brightkite now that will show up on that layer.

So what has kept me from the phone? Well, apart from trying out the video and the camera's geo-tagging abilities I managed to "keep it in my pocket" for the duration of the Gaitzerdi Teatro performance of Otsoko last night. Another of the National Theatre's Square 2 productions. Check out the NT's video on that link as it is a lot better than the bits I shot. You have to see the muzzled, wolves with the illuminated spines to appreciate how creepy there were prowling through the audience on their crutches and growling as the made their way to the stage.

The only dialogue is a bit of recorded narration [they are a Basque company] and the rest is choregraphed and pretty physical. In crude terms it's a pole-dancing version of Little Red Riding Hood! But, think Angela Carter's Bloody Chamber in particular the Company Of Wolves and you'll be nearer the mark. Plenty of smoke and fire and moody lighting and a brilliant soundtrack culminating in Propellerheads Bang On all added to a great performance.

As with the previous performace we saw of Macbeth there were free drinks to be had afterwards in the "Green Room" and being in the know we were first up the stairs for our free bottles of West Eleven Cocktails. The Blueberry Bramble and Passion Fruit Mai Tai were nice but maybe a little too wholesome for 8.5% beverages. Not sure I could have stomached more than two however tasty they are. Still, can't knock a freebie and I'd still try the other three flavours should I find myself offered them. I assume they have something to do with W11, Notting Hill/Holland Park, with a name like that but the contact address is East Barnet!

Today we ventured out hoping for some blazing sunshine but it all clouded over before we got out the door. It was warm enough and heaving in Borough Market and Bankside, so we decided to look in at the Per Kirkeby and Futurism exhibits at Tate Modern. Per Kirkeby I knew nothing about prior to today which is a bit remiss of me! It's a big exhibition with a lot of samey works from certain points in his career. Maybe if the exhibition was a third of the size it wouldn't come across as so much overkill. I preferred the bigger, later works. From pieces that appear to be random daubs of drab paint emerge forms picked out by vivid pigments. Whereas The Futurism collection seemed to be trying too hard and padded out.

Categories: Art, London, Theatre, Technology

My Own Personal Android

2009-08-18T20:41:00.004Z

Loving the new phone. I've been loading the G1 with apps, some good, some not so good. I think I've got the hang of conserving battery life as well, which does mean forsaking 3G unless really necessary. My only gripe has been the lack of ringtone volume really.

I've opted for Twitdroid over Twitta for the My Tracks compatibilty. I posted a test journey to My Maps yesterday and was very impressed, no 3G needed there. I flicked the My tracks app on while on the No 2 bus yesterday and left it on for my walk from the bus stop stopping for coffee on the way. I was particularly amused by the average journey time speed etc. Going to be handy whilst walking especially tied in with the geotagging capabilities of the camera, although not the best camera seen on a phone it'll be handy for reference.

I haven't tried tweeting anything locative yet as I'm not sure about that in real time, more for an historical use... But I may be swayed if someone comes up with a compelling argument for it. But better to leave that stuff to Brightkite, which I hae revisited. The GPS is pretty quick and accurate in town and I have just downloaded the incredible Layar, augmented reality app, with its Brightkite and Wikipedia layers. I'm on the lookout for QR Codes to access stuff from now as well.

Talking of QR, M&S might be quietly embracing the possibilities there and there are some QR related artworks in the Invader exhibit, currently at the Lazarides Gallery. It'll be nice to see something that has been pretty common in Japan for 10 years or more finally catch on here. Looks as though Geolocation is being supported by HTML 5.0, leaning towards the mobile web. Next, the Web Of Things. The 2009 dConstruct might possibly tell us but, alas, I won't be there. This article on Waze, mapping with mobiles is quite interesting too.

Having my GMail popping into my inbox in realtime along with texts and tweets is cool and the access to my Google calendar is much better than it ever was on the Viewty. All my contacts are synched too so I just need to rationalise them to include phone numbers and e-mail addresses in one entry now. Maybe I'll finally get something done this year! Other than stare at my phone of course.

If you are bit of a Moleskine fan like me then you might be interested in the Escape Into Life site. Something unique in a world of cut and paste.

Check out the Icecreamists, coming to Selfridges. Viagra Ice Cream? With Absinthe!!! And cryogenic cocktails.

Categories: London, Web, Photography, Blogging, Travel, Technology,