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Fedy23

Hi 👋🏻

Hope you are all well.


I'm looking for some sport activities for children in the Lara/Aksu area.

In England my child used to attend various sports such as swimming, taekwondo, gymnastics and trampolining.

I feel in Lara Aksu there is hardly anything going...no restaurants, shops or activities for kids...there isn't even a cinema.

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cdw057

@Fedy23 I do not want to be rude, but why did you go there? Sounds remote, you are from the UK and you should have enough cash?

cdw057

@cdw057 We live in Mahmutlar and of course sport items (being 60+and poor health does not help for interest in sport facilities), still where we live the infrastucture is great (loads of restaurants (minimum 10 within 500 m), A101 within 100 m but also MMM, BIM, coop, also there within 500 m. Barber/dentist/hairdresser within 100 m. Yes the community is closed, but this might change.

Why did you go to a community without facilities??

Fedy23

@cdw057

The fact that I'm from the UK doesn't necessarily equal cash!

I love where we live. We wanted to be nearby Antalya but also enjoy the countryside. As we can't afford a car for now, we are looking for activities nearby. Cars are way too expensive in Türkiye.

Anyhow, my query was about activities for children

cdw057

@Fedy23 I am myself a bit immobile, but my wife is actually very happy with the public transport (cheap and effective (perhaps not everywhere)). Sports activities not easy too find (I play chess (not really a sport), but nothing to find.

Having said that, my wife is Orthodox, they have a church here and even a center (transport arranged), I am impressed.


For children activities, I am afraid there is nothing positive to report, in villages and towns alike. Than again I am a simple man, I drink, I smoke, I go to restaurants. My wife goes to a trip now and then (but in general disappointing and spend far too much times in buses (not for children anyhow))


I am though impressed by the playgrounds (even table tennis provided, but also things for younger children). Your children are too old for these activities.

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