Blogs from Gallipoli, Marmara, Turkey, Middle East - page 6

Dinner last night at the restaurant that been reccommnded was a bit dissapointing but I suppose everyone has different opinions on how good something is especially food.They were supposed to be the best koftes in town but bthink they left something out as expected a little bit more taste to them.In our search for the restaurant we were introduced to pay public toilets.We had been to the welcome for the trip we start the next day and had a beer or two to celebrate meeting the other passengers and our guide.Not having been to the loo during the day the beer topped us up nicely and by the time we went looking for dinner we were both really in need.Thankfully there was a public loo in the square near the Blue Mosque and luckily we had ... read more

Our first day together as a tour group. Oktay, our Tour Director, gave us a sample of his efficiency along with our Coach Driver Serdar. Suitcases out and stacked into our motorcoach and done with breakfast, we checked out of Taslic Hotel and drove along the Sea of Marmara to Gallipoli. Oktay made sure we all understood that this part of Turkey is still on the European side of the Dardanelles, before we made our ferry crossing to Cannakale in Asia Minor. So, it was a day to visit 2 continents today. Europe and Asia. How about that? Just slightly over an hour into our long drive, Oktay played a black and white (uggh) documentary on the Battle of Gallipoli in 1915-16 during the First World War, a war event which was a defining moment for ... read more

Wie ich eines schönen Sommertages mein Leben vor dem Kühlergrill eines Opel Astra beendete Es war ein schöner Sommertag. Idyllisch geradezu. Ich flog über die weiten Felder Thrakiens, angelte mir einen Regenwurm zum Frühstück und genoss den Ausblick auf das Marmara-Meer. Weiter hinten, in Eceabat, einem Ort auf der europäischen Gallipoli-Halbinsel, welche gestern von 3 deutschen in einem Opel Astra per Fähre erreicht wurde, machten sich ebenjene nach einem ausgiebigen Frühstück auf den Weg, einen Ort zum Baden zu suchen. Wie es das Schicksal so wollte, wählten sie den Ort Sarköy (welchen man Scharköy ausspricht) als ihr heutiges Tagesziel - und da kam ich wieder ins Spiel. Denn wie es der Zufall so wollte, war meine im Vorhinein perfekt auf das gefahrlose, 1000-mal geübte Überfliegen der Schnellstraße getrimmte Geschwindigkeit heute einen Tick zu langsam. Oder der ... read more

Well! We have been ahvıng an awesome tıme here ın Europe! Mıcaela has been keepıng a diary of everywhere and everything we have been doing and will post it when she has time to type for hours on end. So most likely back home. Anyway! We entered Turkey today after spendıng some tıme ın Greece on the Island of Corfu and then Athens. Corfu was amazıng and we traveled around ın style on a Quad. Lots of fun. The last two nıghts were at tow lovely campsıtes wıth lots of good food and fun to be had. Turkey ıs lovely so far. Kında. Turkey ıtself ıs splendıd but we all got stuck at the border for nearly 4 hours when our drıver was told his visa was not the correct one and that he was not ... read more

We arrived utterly exhausted from our tour of Egypt utterly desperate for a Laundromat to wash our clothes at. We’d gone for wayyyy to long without a machine wash and the old handwash in the basin was losing its effect. The family was there to meet us at the hotel and it was lovely to see them again and we couldn’t believe how much Kaylah had grown up since we’ve been gone. We had a day in Istanbul before our tour began and took the time to catch up on some sleep and visit the Bazaar. After that though, we were flung into the frantic itinerary that comes with guided tours. You see so much but it is tiring. We had another day with the family before they headed back home and we changed hotels and ... read more