Blogs from Turkey, Middle East - page 10

1998 Hierapolis (ANTIKE Stadt : Theater, ...)... read more

2 Wochen im Mai / Juni 2006 Side : Managvat (Wasserfall)... read more

1998 : KEMER 2 Tages-Ausflug; Fahrt ins Tarusgebirge, Salda See, Antike Stadt Hirapolis (Friedhof, Säulenstrasse, Theater), Rote Quelle, Budur See, PAMUKALE, Teppichmanufaktur Schiffahrt nach ?... read more

While most of you were eating turkey for Thanksgiving, I unexpectedly found myself in Turkey for the third time on this trip. I was supposed to go to Israel after Tunisia but with the recent conflict I thought best to give it a pass. It turned out to be a hasty an unwise decision as a cessation of hostilities was announced a couple of days after I was scheduled to arrive. It's been quite a different scene in Turkey since I was last here in September. This time it wasn't brutally hot or brimming with tourists. The Mediterranean coast was almost deserted and the temperatures maxed out around 70°F. It was a bit cooler in İstanbul and 55°F or so in Cappadocia but around freezing there at night. Thankfully there was copious sunshine everywhere in stark ... read more

Have you been to Turkey and not visited Cappadocia? You have probably missed some great fun that Turkey has to offer. We spent 2 days in Cappadocia and the entire time flashed passed our eyes like a blink. There was so much to do and so much to enjoy that I did not notice how it was time again to leave Cappadocia for Seljuk. We arrived in Goreme early morning after a night long bus ride. We were dead tired when we were transferred to Dream Cave Hotel. Cappadocia trip was planned by Mr. hubby so I was totally thrilled to find out that our room was actually curved inside the rock chimney. Cappadocia has a unique geological feature unlike anywhere else I had ever seen so far. This land had experienced 3 volcanic eruptions and ... read more

Blog 5 Troy We left the Dardanelles on a car-and-bus ferry, leaving Europe from a small port named Kilitbahir, and landing in Asia about thirty minutes later at a Turkish provincial capital named Çanakkale. See photo 1. The province of Çanakkale used to be called The Troad, because it was once ruled by Troy. I attach a map (photo 2) that shows the exact location of ancient Troy, and the two rivers, Scamander and Simoeis, that flanked it. The land at the top of the map is the Dardanelle peninsula, and the city of Çanakkale is just off the map to the northeast. The location of Troy was not at all obvious in modern times. As you see, it is not very close to the waters of the Dardanelles Its remoteness was one of the main ... read more

Timewarp to 2006. Four months teaching in a R to 12 private school in Istanbul, where I learnt all about teaching in other peoples education systems by making mistake after mistake. Sincere thanks to all of those hardworking Turkish and Expat teachers who were kind, patient and supportive. This was my first ABC. Enjoy. There is a golden bust of Atatürk (founder of the modern Turkish Republic) in every school courtyard, and a photo of him in every classroom Bus drivers pick you up 400metres before the stop, if you watch them pass, pleadingly. They wait while you run the last 100 metres. Street cats are about 6 per hundred metre walk, and dine out of the rubbish trolleys. Street dogs are desexed, given inoculations and ear tagged by the city council. Anyone bitten by one ... read more