After all that walk around Bursa, we decided to go to the seaside, as Bursa has seside and mountains. All these pictures are from all my trips to Bursa and around... It was for only one day..I know I know...again one day...but I wanted to show that even for one day we can have fun and enjoy the water that we lack in Eskisehir... Enjoy the photos my dear friends... read more

According to what people say, this city has between 14 and 30 million inhabitants..you can choose any number you want. This was the longest and most successful trip of all I took to Istanbul. Said to be the city of 7 hills, this first capital of the Ottoman Empire is like a magnet to every person that came to visit it. At least I know that even if I saw it already, I wanna come back and stay more and more and take part to its non-stop life. Istanbul is the only city in the world that lies on 2 continents: Europe and Asia, and it divides Marmara and Black Seas by the Bosphorus pass. My first "serious" trip started one foggy day at 8 am. Unfortunately it started kind of bad (I had an ... read more

I am here for 1 week already. It't time for my first trip outside the city. So we got together: about 50 people - to go to visit TROY..and other places related to Turkish history. The trip from Eskisehir to Canakkale (the starting poing of our 3-days history lesson) is 8 hours. Once there..you can smell the perfume of the sea. We crossed the Dardanelles with a ship. The view was absolutely breathtaking. The water was dark green and the wind was caressing our smiling faces. How can I describe that Dardanelles crossing-over trip?! Great! Absolutely beautiful! And since our trip's purpose was to discover the history of that part of Turkey...soon we started to see a huge Turkish flag on the hill. Soon we reached Gallipoli, the starting point. That place is now a ... read more

My journey started on August 20th, 2005. I came to Turkey. First time to a foregin country..and since I didn't dispose of so much money, I travelled by train. It was a 24 hours journey...and so it started... One sunny and extremely hot day in Istanbul, 9 am. The train stopped in a dusty train station called Sirkeci that looked like in the old English movies. First shock: the Turkish language..seemed like some stones hitting each other in people's mouths...men screaming, luggage grabbing, weight carrying. I was with another Romanian friend, Anca. We were supposed to be English teachers in a city called Eskisehir, somewhere away..about 6-7 hours by train. What we didn't know was that nobody was there to wait for us. We had to manage. Outside the train station we saw something amazing: ... read more