Süleymaniye Mosque

August 14th 2013
Hello my fellow travelers! This is the third of 18 posts I'll make about my trip to Turkey and the Balkans in 2013 and it will cover my first day in Istanbul. I didn't get much sleep during the bus ride because the bus was quite substantially delayed due to a large protest that we had to drive through as we came closer to Istanbul. It was a bit scary as there were raging fires outside and th ... read more

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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

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Per-Olof Persson

A Small Swede in the Big World

I'm a small Swede that simply just love to travel. I haven't been around as much as I'd wish to yet, but my life long goal is to visit all the countries in the world. I still have a long way to go before that mission is accomplished though. I live with my two cats and one spider in Alvesta, a small city outside of Växjö where I try to host people from all over the world as often as I can. If you need a place to stay, just look me up on couchsurfing.org and send me a request. My living I make working as a insurance adviser, it's a soft job with plenty of free time. I try to get out in the ... full info

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