10 Comments Temperatures fell sharply in the night and when I push open the motorhome doors it feels ice cold. I quickly retreat for my fleece and […]
Castles
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3 Comments It’s a soft, warmish morning and time to say goodbye to the puppies. I hate leaving them and so want to find them a home, […]
Day 85: Fireworks on Our Last Night in Asia, Canukkale
14 Comments We woke to more glorious sunshine, so nothing for it. We head 40 km straight to the beach and find a perfect spot right outside […]
Day 79-80: Surely That’s Not 1 of the 7 Wonders ...
16 Comments Time to leave the peace and tranquility of Altinkum beach. The bracing exhausting anarchy of Turkish roads begins as soon as we head towards the […]
Day 77 – 78: Following the Sacred Way Didim to ...
25 Comments If red valley wasn’t red enough, things get a little crazy as the sunsets. There are no typical fairy chimneys here but you will get […]
Day 59-60, Fairy Tale Chimneys & Giant Shiitake Mushrooms, Cappadocia.
12 Comments The next couple of days, we managed to visit a few of the sites in and around Mustafapasa on Eor. Ürgüp with its castle, monastery […]
Day 57-58: Quaint Villages of Cappadocia Region
22 Comments The alarm sounds at 7am and we spring in to action. Its not long and the coach arrives to take us to…we have no idea! […]
Day 43, Guest Appearance in Turkish Tourism Video
14 Comments On a plateau overlooking Dogubeyazit, the last Turkish town before you hit the Iranian border, sits a ruined Ottoman palace. Still grand despite the wreckage, […]
Day 36: Ishak Pasha Palace, Dogubeyazit
22 Comments After a brilliant time in Ani our fears and anxieties subsides, so we decided to give Kars another go. We park at the train station […]
Day 31: Definite Tension in the Air , Kars
21 Comments Do you ever get that feeling that its going to be one of those days? Our uncomfortable feeling from yesterday is still with us but […]
Day 29 & 30: The City of 1001 Churches, Ani
25 Comments Morning arrives and the time comes for yet another goodbye, Masood and his family are warm, thoughtful and courteous. I sense the two children are […]
Day 28: Uneasy Feeling Satan’s Castle, Ardahan
13 Comments We drive back on to the D010 and point the satnav towards Karagol Sahara national park. Departing Artvin we climb high above the dam project. […]
Day 27: An Iranian Evening, Karagol Sahara National Park
12 Comments We step outside and they are already there, watching us from high on the mountain peaks overlooking the water. The four of us are still […]
Day 25 & 26: Deers, Dams & Bull Rings, Artvin
10 Comments Our motorhome is parked on a mountain ledge a few metres above the village of Yaylalar. The views over the village and down the valley […]
Day 23 & 24: Walking in Kackar Mountains, Yaylalar
30 Comments All night long the young mountain stream keeps up a light roar. The cool waters kept the air slightly damp and fresh, which is a […]
Day 22: Driving Through the Valley of Georgian Castles, Yusofeli
24 Comments We leave Isper and continue along the D050. Just around the corner and the scenery change is pretty instant and dramatic. We are in the […]
Day 21: The Wild West of Turkey, Yokuslu
12 Comments The dawn summons or Salat al-fajr is one of five calls to prayer. It marks the Muslim day but rarely do we hear because we […]
Day 16-17, The Pearl of the Black Sea, Giresun
7 Comments As we sip our morning brew and gaze out to sea, a black dot appears on the horizon. We follow the dot with anticipation and […]
Day 12-13, Homeland of the Famous Diogenes, Sinop
8 Comments There’s a cockerel somewhere close by that wakes us, before it’s light. It just pips the morning wailing to the post. This is no normally […]
Day 7, Driving Along the Black Sea to Amasra Bay
19 Comments Slept soundly and woke bright as buttons. I tootled off for a jog in my attempt to shift a few pounds (or should I say […]
Day 1, Turkish Border Control & Onwards to Istanbul
8 Comments We eat breakfast and sip coffee in the car park of Studenica before we enter Serbia’s most beautiful monastery. We enter via the gate in […]
The Most Imposing Serbian Site, Maglic
9 Comments We pack up and prepare Vin for the last time before crossing the border to Serbia. Croatia has been quite different than we expected. A […]
Venturing Over to Serbia, Novi Sad
8 Comments We wake at sunrise and sip coffee as we listen to the dawn chorus. On the river bank, a little bird with a red crown […]
Sunset & a Spot of Fishing on the Danube, Ilok
15 Comments It’s eight o’clock in the morning and the first streaks of lightening flash across the sky as we drive along the narrow roads to Sinj. […]