Well, 2020 certainly didn’t turn out to be the year we expected! On 31st December 2019, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission released a briefing on its website about an outbreak of pneumonia of unknown etiology. The message from news agencies who picked up the story was the exact cause remained unclear, and it would be premature to speculate. No-one would have thought that by 31st December 2020, the novel coronavirus, identified as COVID-19, would have infected over 83 million people globally and have claimed more than 1.8 million lives. Today, as we look back on the difficult year that was 2020, let’s have a look at some of the things that have happened here in Fethiye and across Turkey.