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A large seaside hotel development in the Bodrum area.

Of all the places I’ve been in Turkey, by far my least favorite is Bodrum, a tourist mecca on the Aegean coast that is full of noisy discos, tacky souvenir shops, and, well, tourists, to the point where finding a full English breakfast seems easier than getting some good Turkish food. These days, locals are also getting fed up with the development that is rapidly turning a small fishing town into a beton şehir, or “concrete city.”…
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