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          the
              beach & pools  
            ok, the sand maybe wasn't white, but as there were no people and
            as the weather still was good when we were there, we spent every
            minute we could at the beach - reading and listening to the waves.
            of course the pools were nice too but the feeling of holidays is
            there as soon as you're by the sea!!!  | 
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          the
                ela quality resort hotel  
                i am not really a friend of luxury hotels and upperclass people
                who spend their holidays in these flash hotels. but as we really
                just wanted to relax and read and enjoy a week away from the
                stress back home, we decided to book the best for the smallest
                price - and we really got a bijou with the ela quality resort
                hotel! it's only been built 2 years ago and there were hardly
                any other guests because it was getting close to winter. so we
                had everything to ourselves: free tennis courts, empty pools
                and beaches, a huge hammam, a turkish bath and a sauna, table
                tennis tables, an incredible buffet, concerts in the pub, a piano
                bar, a pool bar and and and all the rest that goes with
                it :)  
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          mam & me  
              we really had a great time together - playing tennis or ping-pong,
                    reading, talking, enjoying card games in the eve and just
                    enjoying the time together! thank you mam :)  
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          the
                food & drinks  
              mhhhhhhh, all the delicious food - the fresh orange juice, the
              fancy cappuccinos, the huge variety of veggies, meat and salads,
              the turkish deserts, the drinks at the bar, etc...             | 
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          the
                flowers, plants and birds  
           birds came
          to visit us at breakfast, beautiful flowers were all along the paths
          and palm- and bananatrees made us really feel on holidays ;)   | 
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          the
              travels  
            after a loon waiting time (3-4 hrs delay) we got into a horrible
            plane with no space and used sticky air... and lots of grumpy tourists
            coming from turkey, wanting to fly to vienna... so they had an unexpected
            detour over zuerich and we an unexpected landing in vienna... but
            we arrived in turkey in one bit and arrived at the incredible
            hotel in less than half an hour.  
            the return-flight was easy and even arrived early in zuerich!!!  | 
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