Winding Down October 4th 2010 Thursday in Rhodos and great expectations for another glorious beach day when some sort of natural disaster catastrophe struck the island and our plans for the day were dashed. Clouds !. All day. The sun tried but just couldn’t seem to break through to salvage a day at the beach. Not until late in the day did it finally break through to clear the clouds for a really nice evening for our last ... read more
Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Istanbul » Sultanahmet 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
The journey continues.
So much to see, so many places to go, and it always seems so little time.! We started with piping competitions in Glasgow, festival season in Edinburgh, and the Highlands of Scotland and we've been slowly but surely adding to this little blog. Still one of the adventure highlights were the Turkey Travels.
It seems that the adventure can sometimes start even before the trekking begins as was the case in 2008 when Zoom Airlines stopped operating just before a planned departure.
Portugal, Spain, and France are wonderful countries. We discovered a really inte... full info