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Article: Beulah, peel me a grape; GEOFF HILL on gulet cruising in Turkey.(Features)
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- The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- July 17, 1997
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In places like the Caribbean, huge cruise ships arrive at tiny ports like the mountain presenting itself to Mohammed, and their occupants are disgorged like a plague of dissatisfied locusts, stripping bare every shop in sight of watches, jewels and souvenirs to add to the ones they already have too many of at home.
But a Turkish gulet is only 60ft of pine and teak, as happily curved as a duckling.
It arrives in ports like the most discreet of visitors, tapping at the harbour door and asking if it would be at all possible for its dozen or so guests to pop ...