{"id":2009,"date":"2011-09-04T21:06:22","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T18:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onmytodd.org\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2015-11-17T14:36:53","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T13:36:53","slug":"mersin-tasucu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/?p=2009","title":{"rendered":"Mersin &#8211; Ta\u015fucu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s destination was the little port town of Ta\u015fucu. It has an official camp site nearby. The ride wasn&#8217;t spectacular in any positive sense. The road was a 4-lane highway all the time and more or less flat. That included a flat tyre after 45km. Hey <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schwalbe\" class=\"external external_icon\" rel=\"nofollow\">Schwalbe<\/a>, what happened to &#8220;unplattbar&#8221; (&#8220;puncture-proof&#8221;), eh?!<\/p>\n<p>Somehow it took me ages to reach Ta\u015fucu. Actually, I was on the road for eight hours!<\/p>\n<p>The campsite is located directly at the sea and an extended swim in the blue and warm waters was the first thing I did after arrival.<\/p>\n<p>I was having dinner next to my tent (it&#8217;s pitched under olive trees directly above the sea) when a neighbor came over with a plate-full of water melon, some Turkish bred and yoghurt. &#8220;For you&#8221;, he said, smiling, and returned to his camper van.<\/p>\n<p>Cycled: 99km<\/p>\n<div class=\"rl-gallery-container \" id=\"rl-gallery-container-1\" data-gallery_id=\"0\"> <div class=\"rl-gallery rl-basicmasonry-gallery \" id=\"rl-gallery-1\" data-gallery_no=\"1\"> <div class=\"rl-gutter-sizer\"><\/div><div class=\"rl-grid-sizer\"><\/div> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item rl-gallery-item-width-4\" > <div class=\"rl-gallery-item-content\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/wp-uploads\/2011\/09\/Screenshot-20110904-204250.png\" title=\"Mersin - Ta\u015fucu\" data-rl_title=\"Mersin - Ta\u015fucu\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/wp-uploads\/2011\/09\/Screenshot-20110904-204250-300x180.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Mersin - Ta\u015fucu\"\/><span class=\"rl-gallery-caption\"><span class=\"rl-gallery-item-title\">Mersin - Ta\u015fucu<\/span><\/span><\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item\" > <div class=\"rl-gallery-item-content\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/wp-uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_7098.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/wp-uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_7098-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item\" > <div class=\"rl-gallery-item-content\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/wp-uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_7100.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/wp-uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_7100-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item\" > <div class=\"rl-gallery-item-content\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/wp-uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_7106.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/wp-uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_7106-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item\" > <div class=\"rl-gallery-item-content\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/wp-uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_7118.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/wp-uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_7118-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s destination was the little port town of Ta\u015fucu. It has an official camp site nearby. The ride wasn&#8217;t spectacular in any positive sense. The road was a 4-lane highway all the time and more or less flat. That included &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/?p=2009\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-2009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-to-the-caucasus-and-back","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6883,"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions\/6883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}