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|  | | Perking the Pansies, Jack and Liam move to Turkey
A bitter-sweet tragi-comedy that recalls the first year of a British gay couple living in a Muslim land.
p style="text-align: justify;">span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Just imagine the absurdity of two openly gay, recently ‘married’ middle aged, middle class men escaping the liberal sanctuary of anonymous London to relocate to a Muslim country./span>br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" />
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span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Jack and Liam, fed up with kiss-my-arse bosses and nose-to-nipple | |  | | Postcards from the Ege
In Postcards from the Ege, Jack Scott shares some of his must-sees and personal highlights. Follow Scott’s trail, come to Turkey.
p class="MsoNormal">With such an immense political and cultural heritage, it’s no surprise kaleidoscopic Turkey is such a feast – a prime cut of authenticity, seasoned by the West and spiced by the East. Jack Scott knows a thing or two about the country. He lived there for four years and travelled widely – to Istanbul and along its south-western shores from Izmir to Alanya. In Postcards from the Ege, Scott shares some of his must-sees and personal highlights. There are more ancient sites in Turkey than in all of Western Europe and in places like Bodrum and Fethiye, unbroken | |  | | Turkey Street, Jack and Liam move to Bodrum
Early retirement was never supposed to be like this.
span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Six months into their Turkish affair, Jack and Liam, a gay couple from London, took lodgings in the oldest ward of Bodrum Town. If they wanted to shy away from the curtain-twitchers, they couldn’t have chosen a worse position. Their terrace overlooked Turkey Street like the balcony of Buckingham Palace and the middle-aged infidels stuck out like a couple of drunks at a temperance meeting. Against all the odds, the boys from the Smoke were welcomed into the fold by a feisty mix of ecce | |  | | Turkey, Surviving the Expats
"Tenko" without the guards, guns and barbed wire.
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Have you ever wondered what it’s really like to pitch your tent in a foreign field, particularly a Muslim one?
span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Have you ever wondered what it’s really like to pitch your tent in a foreign field, particularly a Muslim one? Guidebooks and travelogues only go so far. To get a real feel, you need to ask someone who’s been there, done that and bought all the fake t-shirts. When Jack Scott and his Civil Partner, Liam, moved to Turkey nothing could prepare them for what was to come – heatstroke, frostbite, biblical floods, Byzantine red tape, lazy censorship, blackouts, bugs from Hell, rancid drains, lunatic d |
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