After my last post about Bodrum, here is a a follow-up on certain aspects of the nightlife of the ever-popular holiday location.
A detailed discussion of Bodrum's thousands of bars and clubs, of course, will be patently impossible and pretty boring. Instead I want to tell you about the places that mattered to me, my close friends and the 1000-2000 other young people that frequent them.This, for example, is the infamous BBC club, the only place that played rock and alternative during my adolescence in the early 2000s.
We were struck down with grief when the old BBC closed down to become one of the omnipresent "holiday discos" found throughout Bodrum. In 2007, however, it reopened as a rock bar, with the original trashy decoration meticulously "restored" to evoke the old days. However, people had moved on...
...to other places, Bodrum's labyrinthine streets among them. Here is my brother and his friends during last year.
They were busy preparing and drinking vast amounts of a notorious concoction called "Karışım," which was made out of beer, wine, vodka and tequila, among other things. Naturally disgusted by alcohol, I could only fathom one sip - which tasted like stale oil.
If the streets are not to your liking, you can always try the real bars that lie around Bodrum's landmark castle.
The first, and the most popular of these is called Körfez, which is always crowded to the brink and has not updated its playlist of songs since 1999.
These factors, however, do not deter people from having a good time, as this couple I shamelessly spied on can attest.
Other good places to go apart from Körfez include the newly-opened Tower,
...and the ever popular Adamik. If you spend your holidays in Bodrum, chances are your nights will be spent tracing infinite triangles between these three bars, and... nowhere else!
All of these pictures were taken last year. I wonder what this summer will bring? By the way, this is not my first post on Bodrum's nightlife. Check this out for the last report!
