Here I am back online after 14 days. Yes, I did keep to my self-imposed confinement and enjoyed all that the sunny town of Kalkan has to offer (surprise, surprise a lot of foodie stuff which will feature on my other blog soon).
Entering into a pact meant I couldn’t crumble as I didn’t want to get embroiled in his work issues on holiday any more that he did with mine. So online abstinence was the deal and we stuck to it.
There were some testing times – the celebrations which erupted when Turkey beat Croatia with fireworks, convoys of cars and scooters, dancing and flag waving in the streets – were scenes just made for sharing. It took some serious restraint not to send a single tweet, utter or even a picture of the sheer joyous (and trouble-free) exuberance.
Perhaps surprisingly for a journalist whose first media is text it was the pictures (video) which seemed so unnatural. Snapping and sending to Flickr has been one operation for so long now that bringing my phone and camera home full of pictures to process feels like going back to a time when you’d drop your films off at Boots.
So, with an internet cafe on every street corner and free wi-fi i just about every bar and hotel, it turned into a case of will power at times.
But I’m glad we did – until now. The daunting catch up has started…… the beach life is fading.
Dim Sum Digital 