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Middle East » Turkey » Central Anatolia » Ankara July 4th 2007

Geo: 39.9439, 32.856I'm hoping to get the kids to write a little every day and then I will give them their own blog entries. Mostly, I will be true to the original wording and may even leave in some of the more creative spelling. As Josh likes to quote, "It's a darn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word!"Josh: We woke up at about 12:00pm. We all went on a walk and mom bought five simit--they're like bagels. Then bought some drinks. Went to a park. I bought some sunglasses (I haggled with the seller!). We went back to the hotel room, got our hats and went on the metro. When we came out we went to the maesuleom then got dinner (I star in some pictures). There was some ... read more

Middle East » Turkey » Central Anatolia » Ankara July 3rd 2007

Geo: 39.9439, 32.856We had bubble baths and slept for 12 hours. Now we are venturing out in search of food. Our hotel room has a really great view of Ankara, including Ataturk's tomb. We are also across the street from a Metro station. With that, Josh proclaimed, "Ankara is in the palm of our hands!" Alex saw a ferris wheel and is lobbying to go to a theme park.I already blew the fuse on my power converter. Apparantly I need a transformer, not a converter for the heavy duty work. As a result, I'm low on computer power. We'll upload more details and picures after I get more juice.... read more

Middle East » Turkey » Central Anatolia » Ankara July 3rd 2007

Geo: 39.9439, 32.856We managed to figure out how to get a trickle of electricity to the computer, so I'm up to about half power. We slept 12 hours and had a very good first day. After getting dressed, we ventured out to explore the neighborhood a bit. Our first stop was a street vendor selling simit, which are pieces of bread, some of which look like pretzels. They are 4 for 1 lira, but she gave us an extra. One lira is about $.75 at the moment. Then we stopped at a small urban grocery and bought some juice boxes and nutella (a chocolate hazlenut spread). The variety of juice boxes was pretty impressive. We all enjoyed our bread and spread. Continuing around in a circle, we came to Genclik Park where Josh tried out his ... read more
Playing chess online with Grandpa at the airport
Political rally buy Tundogan metro station, Ankara
The candidate speaks

Middle East » Turkey » Central Anatolia » Ankara July 1st 2007

Samir's article. Title explanation: Why be forced to do something dumb when you can do something dumb at your own will? Anyway, way back ın Kashmir we came back from our road trip {alive} to our houseboat. In our last few days there we went to a floating market...hunky dory, hunky dory....had a water fıght...hunky dory, hunky dory...Jamil fell into the lake...hunky dory, hunky dory. Parting from Kashmir and flying to Delhi was possibly one of the hardest things we'd ever done. Parting from Delhi was possibly the easiest. We stayed in London a little, then flew here, to Turkey. We landed in Istanbul, where we visited underground cisterns, the famed blue mosque and two museums {one wıth an awesome nucleur sub parked in the front}. Also celebrated my birthday there, junk food, movie, junk ... read more
Obelısk "Borrowed" by Turkey From Egypt ın BC
Quack
The Naturally AC Caves

Middle East » Turkey » Central Anatolia » Ankara July 1st 2007

Jamil. Hi its been so long and İ have not written on the blog. Anyway we have been in Turkey for about one and a half weeks long and İ did not think it would be like this for one reason- because the breakfast is always the same 1. tomatoes 2. cucumbers 3. and a couple of olives 4. meat and if you're lucky watermelon and the only thing to drink is tea. So we are really sick of it. İ'd love to have pancakes or waffles in Turkey for breakfast. Anyway, we are in Ankara the capital of Turkey. We only have today in Ankara. Yesterday we took a bus from Safranbolo, a small town near the Black Sea. From Safronbolu we rented a car and drove it to Sinop, which is on the ... read more
Radiator's needle ıs on high
The sun sets whıle the car ıs broken

Middle East » Turkey » Central Anatolia » Ankara March 10th 2007

Hi Everybody! I apologize for an error in my last blog. We visited the home of the Virgin Mary and the Basilica of St. John the Apostle. We have not had internet access for days. We have stayed on several occasions in hotels that were on the outskirts of towns. We also have been very busy! We have seen many ruins both Greek and Roman. A few have been reconstructed using the ancient materials. They were impressive = especially at Ephesus. I have to admit that they are not my thing! I enjoy seeing the geological formations and just the land more. I loved going to the Cappadocia region. The landscape is very unusual there. Thirty million years ago, volcanoes covered this region with ash. The ash solidified into a substance called tuff, a material that ... read more

Middle East » Turkey » Central Anatolia » Ankara February 1st 2007

Tekrar selammmm Eveeeet.... pek çoğunuzun bildiği üzere yaklaşık 5 ay aradan sonra ilk defa Ankara'ya geldim, 10 günlüğüne. Şimdiden görüşemediklerimden özür diliyorum. O kadar insanı görmeme rağmen göremediğim de bi o kadar war. Her neyse, Uzun bi aradan sonra Türkiye'ye, özellikle de Ankara'ya gelmek ilaç gibi geldi. (halen benim gibi gurbette olan arkadaşlara tawsiye ederim) ancak biraz sarsıcı olabiliyo, insanın pek dönesi gelmiyo:)) çok sık gitmemek lazım. Malumunuz bu 10 gün, yiyip içip gezmekle geçti... detaylara girmeye gerek ama sonuç: Ankara'da 3 kilo aldım, 3-4 aylık rakı ve nargile ihtiyacımı depoladım vs. Muhtemelen sadece 5 ay uzakta kalmamdan dolayı, Ankara hiç değişmemiş gibi geldi. Yani klasik gurbetçi tribi yaşamadım, "way be buralar noolmuş" gibi... Aaaa, tabi ki İ.Melih Gökçek alt we üst geçit çalışmaları hariç. Cinnah-Tunalı-Bahçeli arası hiç 50 dakika sürmemiş... read more

Middle East » Turkey » Central Anatolia » Ankara December 28th 2006

I arrıved in the capital by overnight traın having caught up on my sleep, my journaling, and my oxygen. The 9 1/2 journey train ride (which can be done in 5-6 by car) actually turned out to be a pleasant experıence, havıng a non-smoking sleeper cabin to myself. In Ankara, I stayed in one of the worst hotels ın my whole journey and one of the best...the first gave me a sınus headache just walkıng ınto the place and ıt stunk lıke sewage ın my room but ıt was cheap and had a bed and I was tıred of walkıng around sınce my ankle has been swellıng up...the next day I opted for a nicer hotel...actually the nıcest and by far the most expensıve (40 dollars) I have stayed at sınce I began thıs trıp ın ... read more
Cherubım Sphınx type fıgure
Maın Ankara Mosque
Insıde Maın Ankara Mosque

Middle East » Turkey » Central Anatolia » Ankara December 28th 2006

Ataturk lurks. Who do you call when you want to create a new nation out of the remains of a defeated empire? I saw his stern image lurking everwhere. In paintings and book covers and on top bronze horse in city roundabouts. I wanted to find out more about the man they call Ataturk, Father of the Turks. Mustafa Kemal was the man mostly responsible for creating the modern nation of Turkey. He is a type of George Washington for Turkey. After WWI ended the real fight began for Turkey's existence. He was a general during the war and now he was enlisted by occupied-collaborationist Istanbul to fight the Turkish resistence, only instead of squashing the rebellion he ended up recruiting and organizing them against Greek advances into former Ottoman territory after WWI. Largely due to ... read more
Atatark

Middle East » Turkey » Central Anatolia » Ankara December 2nd 2006

We know we are way behind in uploading (ok, writing) our travel journals - in our blog world we are still in Australia and it is July. Our notes keep growing and we are polishing more than a few new postings that we hope to bring to you soon. In the meantime…. Recently we concluded an unplanned but enriching trip through the nations of the Balkan Peninsula, specifically Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia, and we now find ourselves eating our way across Turkey. We have a way of being in the right place at the “right” time and we arrived in Turkey shortly before the Pope (or Papa, as the Turks call him). We’re not sure if it was smart or stupid but we moved around Turkey so as to avoid him, though we were able to ... read more
Preparations Outside Aya Sofya For The Pope's Visit
Asure
Iskender Kebap




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