Blogs from Antalya, Mediterranean, Turkey, Middle East - page 12

Hello all! I'm sorry that I don't keep this up better than I do. It takes a long time to load the pages, and pictures take a rediculous ammount of time to load. I have, however, loaded a bunch of pictures on Facebook, and I'll put the link to the album below. I change them out every so often, and I'll try to post things on here telling you when I do that! Anyhow, I went to Turkey for four nights over spring break. It was awesome! We were closer to Kemer than Antalya, but we flew into Antalya on the 19th, and I hung out there for half a day or so with Heather later during our trip. Overall, it was a blast! We went to a Turkish Bath, which was an interesting experience. We ... read more

My teaching career took me as far afield as central Japan, but back in the mid-1990's, the very first piece of the teaching career jigsaw came in the shape of a very short-term teaching post in Izmir in Turkey. I was intrigued by the mysticism surrounding Turkey back then, and I vowed to return, so in late September 1995, a trip to Antalya seemed like a fitting way to pay a '10 years on' return visit, and see another area of a country which I really had not seen enough of first time around. Antalya is a sizeable place for sure, a sprawling city which seemed to be in a fairly constant state of outgrowth, from modern out-of-town shopping malls to densely-packed commercial areas in the city centre. The hotel Adonis was located about 40 or ... read more