greetings from turkey hi aunty v and uncle k. thanks for the comments! hope you both enjoy reading the next few chapters. stuck in far eastern turkey for a couple of days (visa waiting) so will get on the job.
xoxox
martin
thanks for the kudos! hi aunty joy uncle greg and lucy. thanks for the great remarks. ive been vowing for the last couple of weeks to get this up to date the next few days could see it happen!
thanks!
Hello from the rellies at Oatley! Dear Martin,
Sounds like you are having a fantastic time! We love reading your journal and the photographs are great...you should all this together in a book when you get back home...it would be a real good one!
Love Auntie V and Uncle K...stay safe and keep having fun and keep writing up that journal!
My Day In Suburbia Hi Martin.
I just spent a great hour reading all of your journal. Thanks, you are a good writer, and I was happy to imagine myself along with you and spider, maybe not on the bike ride, but at least part of the schewarmas scene. Your writing also took me back to my recent walks in Darjeeling- maybe I should blogg that!
Here in suburban Sydney it's a differnet scene: I have already retrieved a 20 year old 2 stroke lawnmower from the council cleanup ("that looks like it can be fixed!") , and now, an hour behind schedule thanks to you, a quick surf at Bungan calls: the waves are small but clean, nice and polite. (Not like at Margaret River, where we were last week for David and Amelia's wedding. There, waves big and severe!).
Back to my day, the bathroom is a Fright!, so Jiff and welding gloves. Tonight we are at some trendy ("but still nice") restaurant for a night of Indian excess. I hope your day compares as well! Keep writing, and watch out for the Lay Lines.
David and Josie at Newport (Sydney, not New York, sadly)
The truth is out there Marty I am relying om you to keep us up to date with what Kris is really up to. His Blog is full of pictures of you, so I am hoping you will return the favour. Hope you are feeling better and are on the roud to Ezerum at this stage.
turkey & syria did you go to pamakale the salt waterfalls for a fabulous sunset-turkeyt
don;t miss palmyra in the desert in syria\don't miss isfahan in iran the mosque
Alive, of sorts - good to hear Hey, we were getting worried about you. Pleased to hear the adventure is progressing. Have you ridden the bike yet (and get some Istanbul muscles for free)
Hey Marty.
Sounds like your have a fantastic time and meeting some great people.
Hope the bike riding is going well and not to cold.
Keep sending photos through so we can print them off.
Love you
Lis
Surfaced finally Marty...glad to hear that you are alive and kicking (kebabs...). Hadn't realised that the Edinburgh Castle is mobile, but I'm sure the royalty have enough funds to organise that. As for coffee, we are stuck with the Australian variety and no luck with Turkish coffee at the Republic, but you never know things might change. Good luck and do keep sending details of your whereabouts...I'll convey your life signs to the coffee gang.
Not bad, eh? Hey it sounds like it's going to be an amazing adventure. Enjoy yourselves! And keep telling your story. I know I'll be checking in to see how it goes! (PS, if you want to see a reaction, say to the next baklava guy ' Say, I always thought baklava was Greek...'.. but then of course, tell him how much you love his baklava and that nothing else compares...)
Well. For some, non grandious reason a friend and I are riding bikes from eastern Turkey to Syria and Lebanon then north to Iran, Central Asia and onwards to Russia.
Just for kicks really.
Hope you enjoy the photos and gramatically poor writing.... full info
Marty of the Deep
Martin Edwards
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