Blogs from Mediterranean, Turkey, Middle East - page 29

Today was the best travel day ever in Turkey! We left on an Anamur Zafer Co bus at 10am in the front two seats. It was a super nice bus and only a 6 hour ride to Antalya. The buses in Turkey are usually amazing and have comfy seats and offer free çay, water, traditional turkish hand sanitizer and snacks. We made it to Antalya and a small Dolmuş was waiting to take people to Olympos. The dolmuş dropped us off in the Olympos Valley but not at our hostel. We waited at this Olimpos Restaurant for more than two hours and it was getting dark and we were getting a bit nervous b/c we did not have reservations. The dolmuş finally came and we arrived at 7pm just in time for dinner at Turkman's Treehouses. ... read more

Train Left Europe late last night on ferry across Bosphorus to Asia. Boat goes directly to Asian Train Station, a grand 19th century German construction. Great way to enter a continent. Toros Express to Syria was cancelled so I took a train to Adana in south east Turkey. Didn't get a sleeper but that made journey all the better. Passengers more conservative than people in Istanbul and all girls wear headscarves. Met family from Konya comprising of grandmother, two mothers and three grandchildren. One of grandchildren was an english teacher in her mid 20s. Propriety prevented her from speaking to me directly but we communited via her 14 year old male cousin nicknamed Alex (after a Fernebache footballer). Usual chat about family, girlfriends, football etc. His favourite player was Colin Kazim-Richards who I used to ... read more

Hello - stıll cruzın through Turkey. We are on the South Coast headed West up the beach. There are so many Hıstorıcal thıngs to see. Turkısh people have to be the nıcest people ın the world. The weather ıs stıll really hot and the water ıs really warm. We should be ın Greece by next week headed back North. Chow for now... read more

Brad and Sally, on their adventure in Hebron (while I had my adventure of finding my passport), met probably the coolest guy I've ever even heard of in my travels. He was Italian, and his name was Phillipo. Brad asked him: "So, what do you do for a living?" His answer: "I walk." Dude apparently is a pilgrim. A Pilgrim. And that's what he does for a living- he just chills, and walks from place to place. With next to nothing. And yet looks more put together after 2 years of just Walking than we do after a day backpacking. In any case, in honour of Phillipo, Bub and I have made probably our best spontaneous decision ever: *On a day hike near the Meditarranean* "I kind of don't want to go back to Fethiye (village ... read more

Firstly, I'm sorry can't put any photos up. My computer uses Linux (as opposed to Windows) and I can't manage to post photos. I was going to abandon it but TC's comment regarding her class using this as a learning experience has persuaded me to keep going. I have posted photos on facebook. So now we are in Ugacich, near Kekova Roads which is the site of am sunken city. You can see this if you sail alongside Kekova Adasi (island). You can see steps and walls of old houses, It's quite fascinating. But sadly you can't swim alongside the sunken city. Lonely Planet says you can't photograph but I don't think that's correct. Last night we anchored at a small bay east of here. It isn't named but it is below a town called Kapakli, ... read more