{"id":1121,"date":"2015-07-07T23:03:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T20:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sharkiadventures.com\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2015-08-05T20:03:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T17:03:59","slug":"merhaba-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharkiadventures.com\/?p=1121","title":{"rendered":"Merhaba, Turkey!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Merhaba&#8221; means &#8220;Hi&#8221; in Turkish and is the first word we learned. The beautiful bay of<\/p>\n<p>Bozburun welcomed us with a buoy to tie up to and a peaceful brand new hotel were the owner<\/p>\n<p>invited us to hang out all day, play Backgammon and use the pool. What a nice change after the breezy frenzy<\/p>\n<p>of P\u00e9di and what a first impression of Turkish hospitality!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1083\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sharkiadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_4430.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1083\" data-attachment-id=\"1083\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sharkiadventures.com\/?attachment_id=1083\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sharkiadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_4430.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1435342227&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.12&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0008298755186722&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_4430\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Backgammon at Miamai Hotel in Bozburun&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sharkiadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_4430.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sharkiadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_4430.jpg?fit=550%2C413&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1083\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sharkiadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_4430.jpg?resize=550%2C413&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Backgammon at Miamai Hotel in Bozburun\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sharkiadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_4430.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sharkiadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_4430.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Backgammon at Miamai Hotel in Bozburun<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Merhaba&#8221; means &#8220;Hi&#8221; in Turkish and is the first word we learned. The beautiful bay of Bozburun welcomed us with a buoy to tie up to and a peaceful brand new hotel were the owner invited us to hang out all day, play Backgammon and use the pool. What a nice change after the breezy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[16],"tags":[38,35],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gabrielas-blog","tag-boatlife","tag-family"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sharkiadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_4430.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3E2yH-i5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":967,"url":"https:\/\/sharkiadventures.com\/?p=967","url_meta":{"origin":1121,"position":0},"title":"Dinghy Line Up and Anchor Salad","author":"Bill Eisenhauer","date":"August 8, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"As many of you might have guessed, we are not the only ones cruising the Ionians in July and August. 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