Tag #123823 - Interview #97983 (Janet Arguete)

We would go to the Cankaya Hotel in Buyukada for a month.  Such a vacation was a luxury in those days.  My father would rent a room every summer in the Cankaya Hotel for 1,5 months.  The hotel was all inclusive.  We ate our meals there, in the hotel.  When summer came, we would take our suitcases and settle there.  The clothing to be worn in Buyukada was separate.  A separate shopping was needed.  Because my mom liked to dress fancy and would not go down from her room without her necklace and her earrings.  I would go to Degirmen Beach ever morning with my friends [One of the most famous beaches of Buyukada.  Now it is a club, only members can go in.  Another one of the beautiful beaches in Buyukada at the time was Yorukali Beach].  My mother did not swim in the sea.  My father only came in the weekends.  My mother would play cards with her friends or go down to the dock to sit in the tea gardens.  I and my friends would enjoy summer vacation thoroughly.