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So, when travelling around the world and still wanting to connect to the epic world of Ricardo Awesomeness, you now can with less bandwidth used and quicker loading times. Look forward to future posts as I have some fantastic beauties in the line up. For now, I bid you farewell as I hop into my spaceship to fly to the distant moon of Dukaduka, and I leave you a present – an Annoying Orange!

Spending two (that’s a 2 by the way) weeks in sunny, hot and ran down Turkey, I came back on the 8th of this month as a bronze God, ready for magnetism pulling of every single beach babe in the world. Instead, I came back to England, to rain, and to work (I love my job really, unlike majority of employed citizens). Was it an enjoyable two weeks? Yes, excursions were great and the resort was good. Would I go back? Definitely, mainly for one reason alone.

We stayed at the Grand Kurdoglu Hotel (Otel in Turkish – I’m learning!), which is a four star, equivalent to a three start hotel in England. Their website is horrible, I love being in SEO you look at website completely differently to the norm surfer. On the other hand the hotel itself is nice, looks good from the outside and the main lobby is well presented. Rooms are okay too, the hotel in a country like this is only a base after all, right? You want to spend as much time at the pool, beach or other sites as possible.

Food is edible, yet not enjoyable. Drinks are free (water, soft drinks, beer, Raki, Gin and a few others), which is always nice on Turkish Night or a party. The WiFi (using it on my phone) is complete crap, cutting out or not working at all and if I forget to close the connection my side the router still believes I’m connected until they clear it after a few days. The pool is great, situated across the road from the hotel itself, it is perfect for people to engage in volleyball and other activities.

Kuşadası itself is a great place, but coming from the UK and a well built up area of Shoeburyness (pun intended) Turkey looks somewhat ‘run down’ if compared to the presentation of British towns and villages. Being a port town, you are sure to find some fantastic restaurants, hotels and market stalls / shops to choose from. There seems to be never a dull moment in the town as around 3am in the morning, shops were open, McDonald’s were cooking burgers and bars we manic.

The majority of the holiday itself was spent relaxing and enjoying the sun, while learning to dive (yes I’m 20 and I have only just learnt how to dive) and jumping onto floats to try and attempt a landing. A small percentage was spent on planned outings and excursions, one being Adaland. They boast to be the ‘largest waterpark in Europe’, it really isn’t that large when you’re there. Sure, they may have acres of land on a hill and a good few number of pools along with a wave machine, but their slides and ‘hardcore entertainment’ was questionable. The best part of this water park is the incredibly loud music they play at dance-in-the-water-jets time.

The second excursion we chose to go on in the second week in gateway to Asia was a boat trip around some coastal beaches and cliffs. This was by far my favourite part of the holiday, for many reasons I must list below:

• I jumped off a cliff into the sea (I am really not good with heights).
• Saw some great scenery and explored some clear waters.
• The food was good along with the drinks (unlike the hotel).
• I met Ezgi Çisil Erdoğan in the most random circumstance.

The last point in that list is the main reason as to why I’d return to Turkey. Seeing the sights and experiencing different sides of the culture is one thing, seeing that someone who you can’t take your mind off is another. Staying up until 4am on the last Thursday of the holiday, we had a great night with a few drinks, a walk and the seaside.

A major downside I saw in Turkey (speaking from an Englishman POV) is the insane driving that seems to take place. Over-taking, under-taking and incredibly risky u-turning to begin with. Sure, society might be used to it, but when you come from a country controlled by traffic lights and rules of the road, it seems too much. As well as the driving, you have the constant bullying to enter shops or buy a product from a market stall, or even eat in at a restaurant. Walking down the seafront you can get bombarded by employees who invite you to eat at their restaurant, I was tempted to record me saying “no thanks” and then playing it back to every person.

If you would like a hot and enjoyable holiday, which is also cheap when you are there, Turkey is a fantastic choice.

I have been repeatedly asked to sort my categories out on my blog and I have agreed every time. There is, however, the fact that I really can’t be bothered to spend a whole day moving posts into categories and hardcore tag like a mad man. I then thought for a moment “Why not clear out the trash, start from scratch, and ensure every post is incredible?”, and so it begins.

Welcome to richedmonds.co.uk v3 (or is it v2? I’ve lost count), if I were counting how many times I re-created traygon.com, then we would be hitting double figures with ease. For this version of my site, this will be the final one with no more renewals – I have to make this work. Moving on from my old design chosen, I am going back to the power of Woo Themes and using one of their excellent choices.

Starting a fresh beginning...

So what can you expect from me this year and for the future? For starters, I will be publishing insightful posts into my life, along with helpful articles about server management, social networking, forum administration, and much more. As I’m British you will need to expect some crazy rants (already happening on my Twitter account) about anything that annoys me beyond the “outer rim”.

I will be re-posting many posts from my backup that were found to be both successful and regularly searched for. Unfortunately, I will be keeping all my old RuneScape articles in my backup file, apart from possibly the “How to create a RuneScape clan?” post.  Apologies to those who enjoyed my rants, rambles and sick humour covering the MMORPG, if you wish to complain at me then by all means do so. I’ll most likely laugh at you.

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