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  • Travel tips: a retreat in Turkey and farms in the spring

    Travel tips: a retreat in Turkey and farms in the spring

    A stylish new hotel in a Turkish fishing village, lambing season breaks and the week’s best deals

    The Observer,

    Badem Tatil Evi hotel in Selimiye, Turkey

    Time to reflect: Badem Tatil Evi retreat in Selimiye, Turkey.

    Take me there: Selimiye, Turkey

    A stylish new hotel looks set to put the Turkish fishing village of Selimiye on the tourism map when it opens in May. Badem Tatil Evi is an intimate retreat on the Bozburun peninsula, with just 12 rooms, a restaurant serving up Turkish home cooking, an infinity pool and a beach club. It’s a short walk from the harbour, which is being touted as ‘the new Kalkan’ thanks to its lovely horseshoe bay and smattering of family-run restaurants and boutiques. A week’s B&B booked with Turkey specialist Exclusive Escapes (exclusiveescapes.co.uk) costs from £750pp including flights, transfers, a day’s cruise on a traditional gulet and a trip to Knidos on the Datça peninsula.

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  • British Soldier Stabbed To Death In South Cyprus

    British Soldier Stabbed To Death In South Cyprus

    A British soldier has been stabbed to death during a fight with UK tourists in a Cyprus nightclub, police have said.

    Cypriot police said four off-duty soldiers stationed on the island got involved in an altercation with three tourists in the early hours of Sunday morning.

    One of the tourists then allegedly drew a switch blade knife and stabbed the teenage soldier, according to police spokesman Georgios Economou.

    He said: “Today at around 3.30am while a group of British soldiers from Dhekelia garrison were enjoying themselves at a club in Ayia Napa they had a confrontation with three of their compatriots.

    “During the confrontation one of the three drew what is believed to be a knife injuring the soldier in the chest.”

    He was pronounced dead on arrival at Famagusta General Hospital in nearby Paralimni.

    Connie Pierce, a British military spokeswoman, said the incident took place in a part of Ayia Napa that is off limits to British soldiers because of past trouble there.

    The Ministry of Defence confirmed a British soldier was killed following a fight on the island. The dead soldier has not been identified.

    Britain retains two military bases on the island after the former colony gained independence in 1960, with around 9,000 troops stationed there.

    Ayia Napa is a popular resort destination for young holidaymakers, especially British tourists attracted by the nightlife.

     

     

     

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