Taste of Fethiye with Holiday Extras _ Ölüdeniz and Fethiye, Turkey _ The Travel Foundation

Good morning from Turkey guys! This week I am exploring the city of Fethiye with Holiday Extras. We are just headed for breakfast and we are going to a really nice local restaurant that uses all sustainable ingredients and locally farmed produce. That's semisotu and that's grown very naturally. Cream and honey and that'll be homemade cream. And the produce they grow here as well so this region particularly is known for this. That was so good and so much food there was no way we could finish all of it but we really tried and now I'm gonna take you inside the kitchen. So this is where all the magic happens. So that was breakfast and now we've walked around 10 meters and right in the backyard of the restaurant is this museum of nomadic history and culture. It turns out that the owner of the restaurant is really interested in Turkey's past how it came to being so he has collected all these artifacts over the years that he is now sharing with the public. And I'm not traveling alone. I am joined by these two wonderful ladies from Holiday Extras. So this is Abby and this is Caroline. Yay! So the reason we're in Fethiye this week is the Taste of Fethiye project run by the Travel Foundation and the project is completely focused on bringing together local farmers and producers and local businesses such as hotels and restaurants and creating this perfect marriage where all the locals are the ones benefiting but it's not the only cool project that the Travel Foundation are running in the area. So the second project that we're visiting just for a brief afternoon is the Blue Wave project which is focused on sustainability and conservation in the sailing industry and this marina is one of the best examples of good practice in the world and it's also really gorgeous so I want to show you the views. This is Goçek and it's probably the place in Turkey for its boating, for the sea, for the islands and with the Blue Wave project that we're working on the aim is to preserve this because if you look out there you can see just how beautiful it is. Oh and in case you're wondering, yes the flower in my hair is sustainably and locally sourced. I just picked it off the floor but honestly sometimes the simplest solutions are the most effective. Give people a recycling bin and they will use it. We've just arrived to Ilker's farm who is one of the 50 farmers working on the Taste of Hatia project and she promised to personally teach me a thing or two about farming so I am very excited to learn something new and hopefully I'm not going to create absolute chaos which has happened before so. These are really delicious. Here on the farm Ilker grows everything from tomatoes and aubergines to fresh chilies which I kind of accidentally tried. Oh you're gonna be kissing. I know what I'm taking back home. Ilker has just kindly offered to pack up these aubergines and I am taking them with me to England because of course I am. I'm so excited. And now we're driving back to hotel for dinner but before that we have decided to make a pit stop in a place called Kaya village. This is where the Greek people used to live in the 1920s before they were forced to do a very curious population exchange. So some of the Turkish people living in Greece came here and the Greeks living in Turkey were forced to go back to their country even though they were born here in Turkey and it's quite a fascinating story that actually piqued the interest of some really prominent writers like Louis de Bernier. So you can read his book Birds Without Wings which is all about Kaya and his history. Just a quick note whenever you see poor little camels and donkeys by the side of the road like this please don't write them. It breaks my little heart to see them suffer in the heat and it's just a really really terrible thing to do so please don't. So we're eating dinner in this beautiful romantic restaurant. We are completely filthy, unwashed, really sweaty but you know what sometimes you just gotta roll with the and this is worth it. Good morning guys. We have just sat down for breakfast and this is what we were presented with. We're just walking toward the market now and exploring a bit of Fethiye. Turns out this town is actually really gorgeous. There's so many beautiful fountains and so many different statues to see so I'm going to show you a few now. We're in Fethiye market and as you can see it's very popular. There are tons of people, locals and tourists alike. Loads of celeries and the local produce looks just amazing. If you like sugar or diabetes this is going to be your new favorite drink. This is the sweetest thing I've had in week. Have you guys ever tried yellow cherries? Because I haven't and cherries are my favorite fruit. These are extremely sweet. That's really really good. So what's really unique about this fish market is that you buy your fish in the center and then you choose one of the restaurants around you and they will cook the fish for you This was the very first grocery of Fethiye and I remember coming here when I was very small doing the shopping with my father and it was really lovely and it still is very nice. I'm here with Meryem and her own shop which she has had first. Yes it's my family business about 38 years. Amazing and these are completely homemade. Yes. And how do you make them? We put inside corn starch, sugar, water and lemon. After you can see some is with the chocolate, some is with different nuts but all the Turkish delight is gluten, dairy and eggs free. Keeps six months in the room temperature. Oh it's vegan, it's perfect. Thank you, thank you. Teşekkür ederim. You're welcome, you're welcome. Tonight we're dining at Mosaic restaurant and they just brought out the meze's which look amazing. Good morning from Fethiye. This is becoming a bit of a trend but I'm on a boat again and this time it's a gorgeous gulat. Apparently the best one in all of Fethiye so we're pretty lucky. You know I hate being preachy but you actually have to come here. This place, Fethiye and the surrounding area is incredible and not that many people seem to know about it for whatever reason and this goes for me as well. I'd never heard about it prior to visiting but look at the view behind me. We've just stopped for lunch at the Belgicus Beach Club which is a gorgeous five-star hotel in the bay and they have some of the most incredible views of the paragliders landing. By the way paragliding is one of the biggest draws for this area and it's really cool because the mountains are really tall and you're just descending upon the coastline so the views are just incredible. If you have any reservations about coming here by the way, please don't. It's incredible. There there's nothing terrible happening here aside from overeating. The overeating is quite terrible. Look at me guys! It's my last night in Fethiye and I'm really sad. I had pretty much no expectations coming into this and my mind is just blown honestly. It's been so incredible. The people I've met along the way, the food I've eaten, the final taste of Fethiye. So sad. Well I've just landed in the UK a few hours ago. I've driven all the way to my boyfriend's house and I brought him a little present. Now you may remember when we were at the farm I took a bag of groceries essentially and here they are. So this is all the stuff I've brought. Some of it didn't really survive the journey but most of it did. I kept it in the mini bar for three days. Now it's going in my face. Well thank you for watching. If you enjoyed this video please don't forget to give it a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel and go to the Travel Foundation's website to check out more of their projects because they're all amazing but this one is the tastiest. It tastes damn good. Yeah. So I'm sure you've heard of BYOB but have you heard of BYOF? Break your own fish. This is amazing.