Aegean breeze in Cesme

Who needs to closer an attractive woman, one should love all the side of Cesme in this way. Old Greek and Ottoman architecture and the salt of the Aegean sea, fresh fish, wind, herbs, vegetables and healing waters, gummy jam, ice cream, wine grapes and hot sun, natural beaches make you feel good. As a native of Izmir, I used to learn how the streets smell of the sea in my childhood.

The second half of the 1980s are the days when Cesme hosted the famous music festival. It was as impressive as Sanremo and as internationally interested as Eurovision. We would go for guests rather than contestants. Jackson 5, Albano Romino Power, Samantha Fox, Modern Talking, Kim Wilde and many other pop music giants performed great concerts in the historical castle of Çeşme. The streets, the beach was a real carnival; It was full of cheerful people dancing and singing.

Its golden beach was the most beautiful one, called Altinkum, because it was the most natural in the 80's and 90's. While snorkeling, there was a sea, even on the hottest day of summer, that freezes glass-like water as well as to your bone marrow. The sands on the beach where I bounced ricochet, were so thin so that my feet was burning and the natural sand dunes were similar as desert.

Don't ask why they call a town Cesme named fountain in where there are many historical fountains. Cesme is famous for its hot springs thanks to its underground healing waters as well as its abundant spring waters. I will never forget the cafe in the center where I went to Ilıca with my family in the 80s and 90s and stayed at the hostel and ate the delicious fountain dough and katmer for the first time in Ilica. I have to write about the pools in the sea that create a natural jacuzzi effect with boiling water. Lots of people would sit in the pool for hours. Ilica, at the same time, meant the beach that always comes to your waist no matter how you open in its turquoise sea, which has a long natural beach.