Methuselah On The Move - Update 7 (Istanbul Interlude) September 24th 2013 <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Istanbul Interlude
Resting in Istanbul for a few days. Things went sort of pear shape at the end of the Kyrgyzstan leg of the tour – all my own fault. On Saturday night after the end of tour dinner I got into a Vodka drinking session. Went to be well and truly under the weather. Had to be woken and dragged to the airport – at least I s ... read more
Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Istanbul Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk, or "Father of the Turks." Under his authoritarian leadership, the country adopt... ... read more
A grumpy old man who got the travel bug late in life. I now like to go to unusual and exotic places. Have visited Vietnam (3 times - first trip in 1971 but it doesn't count, since then visited again twice - in 2003 with Carol and 2008 with the "almostnomads"), Europe 1976, New Zealand 1982, Malaysia (five ties), Singapore (eight times), Turkey 2011, Jordan 2011 (took part in an archaeological dig at Pella), US North East + California as well as Eastern Canada in 2009, US West Coast and Western Canada 2011, China 2010, Borneo 2012 - that's where I had an altercation with a motor cycle and te... full info