One of my plans for our holiday to Turkey was for me to sit on the sun lounger for ages. Not sun bathing but sitting with my camera, learning how to use it, whilst Little Z and OH had hours of fun in the pool. Then I could wander down the busy streets in Side and the harbour taking arty photos of the vibrant surroundings that comes with the Turkish culture.
It didn’t quite work out like that. Little Z preferred the playing areas and kids clubs to the pools and to make use of his feet, constantly. So my plan went the way of his feet very quickly and ran away from me. We chased him down the busy streets lined with shops. We did this on a number of days and he became a favourite of the shop owners who would call his name to say hello whenever he passed. He would never stop for long though, wanting to run along the harbour whilst quickly admiring the horizon and boats neatly lined up in the docks. Ocassionally he would stop to point out things that caught his eye. A brightly lit lamp, a flower, a flag. In return he tried to wait patiently for us whilst we admired the ruins of Apollo’s temple.
My favourite little memory was when we waited and waited for the sun to set so that we could see the remains of the sunlight bouncing off the ruins. Toddler patience started wearing thin and his eager legs wanted to run off to see the turtles that were sleepily settled in their tanks outside a cafe watching tourists walk by. As the sun finally hid behind the cloud and darkness started to descend he suddenly noticed something was amiss and enquired “Where moon gone?”
So in the end, I did get to use my camera a lot. Just unexpectedly it was mostly led by a toddlers curiosity, learning a new culture and taking in new sights.
“It’s boken (broken) Mummy”
“Shall we get it?”
“I no want it”
Still “boken”
“Flag!”
“Look. Light!”
“Shall we go dancing?”
“Where Moon gone?”
“Shall we go now?”
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Lovely pics!! X
Thaks v much! 🙂
These are wonderful! Love the colours. We’re off out for the day on Thursday and planning to take my big camera with me. Need to read up a little on how to use if first though.
Thank you! 🙂 I still don’t know how to use about 90% of mine!
Absolutely beautiful! The photos are stunning and Z’s little phrases are priceless. It’s fantastic to record them because it’s amazing how quickly you forget them otherwise.
So true – he has started expressing himself a lot more so wanted to give his opinions on pretty much everything!
What beautiful photos, I think your camera work is excellent. Where were you by the way?
Thank you 🙂 We were in Turkey – In Side. Very beautiful place to visit.
Lovely pictures, Im looking at getting myself a new camera soon my old digital one is a bit tired now 🙁
OHhhhh you should! I love snapping away with mine!
such wonderful photos. Hope you had a lovely time xx
Thanks very much – It was a really lovely holiday. I would love to go back again soon! Wishful thinking really to be honest 🙂
wow it looks like you had an amazing time!! the pictures are just stunning!!
Thanks for linking up with #MagicMoments xx
Thanks Jaime! It was a good week in a lovely place. x
It looks like you had a lovely time – brilliant pictures x With one at 18 months old the idea of having time to take pictures and lie still for ANY amount of time is a distant dream… *stare off wistfully* but I’ll get there eventually! lol 😉 x
I know what you mean. I think I must have had a delusional moment when I thought I was going to get to just relax on the sun loungers!
Oh my word, stunning photo’s! x
Thanks very much MS 🙂
You still managed to take some pretty stunning photos!! Hope you had a lovely holiday x
Thank you – it was a brilliant week!
Amazing photos, I really need to do more with my camera! I love the photo of the lights.
Thanks! I think I am a bit addicted to mine at the moment!
Wonderful pictures. It is amazing how you start looking at things differently through the eye of a camera. Looks like you were having fun with the macro function!
Yes definitely – its something I’ve only discovered very recently!
Brilliant photos, I love the ‘boken’ ones, and the lights are just so pretty! Hope you had a lovely time x #MagicMoments
I couldn’t believe he said that – he wasn’t that impressed with the ruins at all! 😀
Well done you, beautiful, STUNNING photos. Glad you had a good time (but you should have been at Britmums!)
Ahhh thank you – I would have loved to have been there. Next year? 🙂
Gorgeous pictures. I recognise the Turkish ruins – we went there on an incredibly hot day in August – kids weren’t overly impressed! I still don’t know how to use my camera and it’s just an automatic one!
Haha – little Z wasn’t that impressed either!
Stunning photos, especially the Lantana flowers. They’re one of my favourites 🙂
Ahh thanks – I didn’t know what most of those flowers were though!
Beautiful photos, I love the sunset ones. Looks like you had a great time. X
Thanks Katie – it was a lovely week!
Really lovely holiday photos.
Thank you!! 🙂
Lovely photographs – I especially love the orange flower – very pretty! x
I have no idea what that is but that’s one of my favourites too!
Some lovely pictures – bet you had an amazing time!
Thank you – we really did, it was a really lovely place!
Love this post! Made me giggle – all these beautiful pics and Z’s running commentary throughout – cute! You have mastered the camera much more than me! x
Haha thanks! He loved visiting most places but wanted to always go dancing at the end of it! You will get there – took me a while for the penny to drop with mine!
Great photos! Love the last one! x
Thanks for linking up! x x
Thanks Charlotte 🙂
Lovely photos, makes me want to go there.
Its definitely worth a visit – book it! 😉
Gorgeous pics. I’m sure in a few weeks you’ll only remember the good bits of the holiday 🙂
Hehe thanks. I hope so!
Love the yellow flower one. I still need to learn how to use my camera properly, as well as a million other things I have to do! If only there was more time! x
I know exactly what you mean – one day I may actually learn to use manual properly. Its all a bit of a fluke at the moment.
Those pictures are fabulous – beautiful colours and really interesting compositions. Love the captions too! X.