Blogs from Turkey, Middle East - page 7

I am combining our last two days into one blog…Last of Jordan and an evening in Istanbul. Friday was our last full day in Jordan, and time to head back to Amman to turn the car in and get ready to leave Saturday morning. As we packed up and left the Petra Marriott, dark clouds and lots of wind were starting to gather. We were grateful that the day before we had great weather and weren’t attempting to visit Petra in the wind and drizzle. As we drove the 3 hours to Amman, we had spurts of rain which didn’t look to be letting up. Luckily the drive was easy, the car was dropped off and we were settled into the Amman Sheraton with a nice suite. We had thought of doing a dinner out, but ... read more

Well, for one thing, I get a free layover of about 18 hours, between my connection from Munich to my flight home from Istanbul to SFO. So, why not take advantage of this layover, spend the night in a decent hotel, instead of spending the night in the airline business class lounge? I was just here in May, 2019, just before the pandemic hit in early 2020. I spent about a week here, with a local guide. He was a friend of a friend, of Mr. Mike. And he was excellent. I was able to hit all of the highpoints of Istanbul, as well as take the harbor cruise throughout the Bosporus. But the real reason for returning is simply for the Turkish Delight. I brought back a kilo last time, thinking it was too much. ... read more

As mentioned in the last blog we decided to take a few days to do some land travel in Turkey. The night before we were scheduled to leave Bob decided to pour some water in the bilge to clean it out. This should have been just a quick thing to do, but the bilge alarm went off and stayed on! Yikes, something else. Bob was now having to figure out the problem and in the end he decided to put in a whole new unit. Always good to have spares onboard for situations like this as it was 7:30pm so no shops would be open and we have to leave at 8:30 AM the next morning to catch the bus. We actually have 2 brand new units as spares, 1 exactly the same and the other ... read more

9 EKİM 2022 CUMARTESİ Bodrum da devasa bir turist kuyruğu var… Son anda bir seyahat krizi yaşadık . Sveta geminin boarding cart'ını bulamadı ve bizim polis ille de kart diye tutturdu .. Kart en sonunda benim çantamdan çıktı .. Çok ayıp oldu ama artık bu noktadan sonra sesimi çıkaramazdım … Sorunsuz memlekete vardık.. Datça feribotumuz 16 :00 da. O saate kadar, Bodrum 'da biraz dolandık . Yemeğimizi yedik ve saatinde feribotumuza bindik . Datça'da ,sağolsun Gürkan, bir arkadaşını ayarlamış .. Adamcağız bizi alıp kuş gibi Palamut a getirdi… Bir seyahat te böyle geçti.. Biraderim Turhan'a teşekkürediyorum . Bizi çok doğru bir yere yönlendirmiş Sağolsun… Artık önümüze bakıyoruz… ... read more

19 EYLÜL 2022 PAZARTESİ Sabah 08.00 de aslan Gürkan bizi palamut taki evden alıp Körmen’e taşıdı.. Sveta yol boyunca nasıl bu kadar çok konuştığumuza hayretler ediyor .. Kendisine bunun bir de Yunanlıları olduğunu hatırlattım… feribotumuz saatinde kalktı ve saat 11.00 civarında bodrumda idik. Kos gemimiz 16:00 da, dolayısıyla saat 16:00 ya kadar oyalanacak bir sürü işimiz var … Sakallıoğlu’nda yemeğimizi yedik .lokantanın adı yemek konusunda insanın içini açmıyor ama yemekleri güzel doğrusu..bir de çok şeker bir çalışanı var … Banka ve ıvır zıvır işlerimizi hallettik ve ucuz olsun diye yeni limandan gitmeye karar verdim… sen neymişsin be abi ? .. yolların tamamını köstebek yuvası gibi kazmışlar . Şöför gideceğimiz yeri öğrendiğinde neredeyse intihar edecekti … dağların tepeler... read more