Blogs from Mediterranean, Turkey, Middle East - page 28

Se houvesse uma competição tipo Hall da Fama para personagens históricos, a Turquia seria uma das líderes. Ou ao menos teria pretensão para tanto. A nossa ignorância nos fez alugar um carro em busca apenas de alguns dias de sol e água fresca, tentando descobrir praias lindas e escondidas na Riviera Turquesa. Encontramos algumas. O que não sabíamos é que iríamos nos deparar com mais ruínas do que o imaginado, sem contar a casa que morou Maria e a cidade onde teria nascido um tal de Baba Noel, o velhinho que todos pensam vir do Pólo Norte e que os turcos dizem ter nascido aqui, mas que, para nós, em comum mesmo com a Turquia só tem as cores branco e vermelho. A casa de Maria é motivo de peregrinação já faz algumas décadas. Trata-se, na ... read more

Drodzy przyjaciele! To moj pierwszy wpis od ponad czterech miesiecy. Tyle sıe zbıeralam, zeby napısac to, co wkoncu pısze. Dzıs 17sty marca. Dzıs mıjaja 4 mıesıce, od kıedy nıe ma wsrod nas Arka.....Minela juz 1/3 roku! A ja wcıaz mam wrazenıe, ze to bylo wczoraj...Wcıaz te same obrazy staja przed oczamı... Tyle juz czasu uplynelo, a ja wciaz tkwie w tym co nam sie przytrafilo....Wciaz tym zyje. Choc minelo juz sporo czasu, wciaz trudno mi dobrac slowa, zeby dopisac dalszy ciag urwanej historii z poprzedniego wpisu.....Trudno mi nawet poukladac jakos po koleii zdarzenia. Minione dni zlewaja sie ze soba w mroku wypieranych ze swiadomosci wspomnien. Gdy pisalam tu po raz ostatni, Arek byl pograzony w spiaczce, w spiaczce, z której niestety juz nigdy sie nie wybudzil. Do dzıs trudno w to wszystko uwierzyc....Wszystko stalo sıe tak ... read more

We arrived in Tasucu at about 7 in the morning with a bit of a crik in the neck, but still not super tired, well at least I wasn’t as I had managed to get some sleep in the bus. We brought our tickets for the ferry to Northern Cyrpus, paid the exit tax and had some breakfast. After breakfast I visited museum in the interim between waiting for our boat to come. The boat took about 2 hours to get to Girnea (the port of Northern Cyprus) and had a proper passport control scan before and after arrival. We took a mini bus to the city centre of Girnea once we arrived and upon arrival as the mini bus drove off I realized that we had left my back pack on the bus. Try as ... read more

Antalya, very popular with Russian tourists is in the south west of Turkey. From Fetiyhe it’s a good 3 hours by bus. Lucky I found a store with some tasty meringue before we got on the bus. Unfortunately I also experienced a tragic loss after finding out something I thought I had lost from the bus the night before was now gone. Anyway we got to Antalya and Ivan met a guy on the bus Firaz, who was originally from Syria but doing his internship in the states. Firaz took us to the hotel he was staying at which was right at the back of the old town. It was a decent place for 50turkish lihar we got a 3 person room with breakfast. It was a good nights sleep that night. Note: As I couldn't ... read more

The tranquil hill town of Kas was a far cry from the muddy street of Olympos which greeted our dolmus minivan on Wednesday afternoon. For 3 TYL you are dumped at a highway stop and shuffled into another van for the transfer downhill. Aside from flooding 2 weeks prior it was in reasonable shape although the bulldozers were at work in spades (ha ha)! around the ruins site. To enter Olympos involves a steep road down into a narrow valley where many treehouses are built on the river bed or nearby. Citrus trees abound giving some earth stability but I did wonder if the creaky platforms around everywhere would support the continuing shoulder season tourists weight! After a chatty and stormy night with Aussie, British, Turkish and German company I managed to get up early to ... read more