Sleepy and unspoilt, with low mountains hovering on the horizon, a tranquil turquoise sea, and narrow cobbled streets lined with cosy outdoor cafés and restaurants, the charming port town of Alacati ...

A brass band fills the air with lively Turkish music as it marches down a cobblestone street. Tourists and locals alike clap and dance, packing the main square. The musicians are dressed in turquoise ...

With its cobbled alleyways and pale stone houses overgrown with sprays of pink and red bougainvillea, the traditional town of Alaçati looks like a sleepy Greek fishing village. But its traditional ...

The pavement cafes are filling up; couples are holding hands in the sunshine. You could be in St Tropez — except that a bottle of good chardonnay is about a tenner here and dinner for two costs less ...

It is early evening in Alaçatı and the now honey-coloured main square has been taken over by designer-clad twentysomethings sprawled out on white linen sofas, martinis in hands, soaking up the hustle ...

'We want you to feel like this is your home," Sabahat Poshor says, but it already does. I feel a lump swell in my throat and I gulp it down. It is wrong to cry on holiday, I know, but I tend to get ...

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“The next [fill in the blank]” and “like [hotspot of choice] 20 years ago” are two of the bigger clichés in travel writing. And yet, sometimes clichés are clichés for very good reason: In this case, ...