Currently 38C here so covering up not really an option. We tried mosquito repellent spray on our arms and legs but it had no affect on them. The anchorages tend to be in narrow bays with 60m+ depts outside so anchoring offshore not really an option either.
Vitamin B1 supplements work, but you do stink after talking them.
I remember the horse flies from working on the farm as a youngster in the west of Ireland. They were a good bit bigger than their Turkish cousins and their bite wasn't as severe as the Turkish flies (although that may just be a case of the more recent pain seeming to be worse than the distant pain).
Stink on what way - sweat, breath, exhaust? I'm going alone next week so I'll be the only one smelling me.
Sweat!
I empathize with you. The biting horse flies in Africa were horrible, especially if one gets inside your car while driving
Real ale [British style] never much appealed to me and the couple of times I tried it I always reckoned the dirty dish water analogy can't be too far off the mark although I have to confess I never tried tasting dirty dish water to prove the point. Anyway there's not too much real ale available in Turkey and certainly not in the remote anchorages to which I was referring. I am however partial to a Bomonti Filtresiz or three and that doesn't seem to deter them. Then again, maybe it does, as I only drink after dark and they seem to disappear after sunset. Yippee beer for breakfast next week ?
I love lager especially American, but real ale, Guinness or any other form of cough syrup is un drinkable to me.
