Athena pension

Out of Asia

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September 15th 2010
Always been a bit dubious about drinking wine from a plastic bottle but here in Turkey the plastic bottle gets a thumbs up.Its good cheap stuff and in true 'gentlemen of the road' fashion we've converted one into a water bottle.Big wine producing region here in the west,with the harvest in full flow there are tractors racing around the roads and people from the east working hard in the vineyard ... read more

Middle East » Turkey

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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