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The Edge of Europe- 5174 miles from Banchory

October 30th 2005
İstanbul - The Crossroads Where Europe meets Asia, East meets West, Islam meets Christianity, the Black Sea meets the Mediterannean, and cliche meets cliche. At once this place is beautıful and ugly, peaceful and noisy and just about everythıng else you can think of. It is more European than most would ımagıne - includıng myself. Shops are full of western goods at western prıces agaın wh ... read more

Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Istanbul

Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk, or "Father of the Turks." Under his authoritarian leadership, the country adopt... ... read more

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Erika Bird and Robin Searle

Banchory to the Bosphorous by Bike

We are Erika and Robin from Scotland and in April 2005 we quit our jobs and set off to cycle from Scotland to İstanbul. We reached İstanbul in October 2005 having discovered that cycling truly is the best way to travel and so decided to keep going beyond the Bosphorous...... We had never cycled any long distance before but had been wanting to travel for a long time and had finally saved enough and realised ıf we didn't set off now we never would. We decided cycling would be the best form of transport as we wanted to learn more about the countries and people we passed through at a s... full info

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