We have chosen to stop in Konya for a night on the way through to Goreme, as the trip is several hours. Konya is the former home of Rumi, the great Sufi poet (1207-1273). Between 1150 and 1300, the Sultans of Rum beautified Konya, erecting many lovely buildings and mosques. Read more…
Roger “went to Pumukkale twenty years ago” but I didn’t, so that’s where we’re headed next. It’s nice to see that storks are indiscriminate about the kind of religious structures they nest on. I’m initially a little underwhelmed by Pummakale. The whole town is geared around what looks, from a Read more…
Kaleköy :27th June – 3rd July One of the amazing things about travelling extensively, twenty years after a first major trip, is how technology has changed the way we choose our destinations. In a way, it seems much less intrepid but at the same time, it is nice to get Read more…
Our destination the next day is Selçuk, the former ancient city of Ephesus. After sampling a number of the most enormous peaches I have ever seen, we catch the car ferry across the Dardanelles to Çanakkale where we stop briefly to pose with the horse used on “Troy” the film, Read more…
We farewell Istanbul where we will return in a month, and the next morning we head to the Gallipoli Peninsula. Louie was particularly interested in visiting Gallipoli and it was one of the places that he chose to put on the list of destinations. My own family had very little Read more…
Leaving Cairo and arriving in Istanbul: June 10th I love Turkey. I wasn’t sure that I would after fleeing from here twenty years ago when, as a travelling 21-year-old, I took a job advertised in the paper for an English teacher for a family in Istanbul. Roger also came here the Read more…