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Turkey

Photo Friday #5: Turkey

June 25, 2010 Inspiration

It was warm! And sunny! on our return to Istanbul. It made for a completely different experience of the city. Although the fishermen were still lined up along the Galata Bridge across the Bosphorous in the pouring rain a couple of weeks ago, blue skies and sunshine made for a much better photo the second [...]

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Tips for bus travel in Turkey

June 23, 2010 Destinations

Turkey is a breeze for independent travellers. The guesthouses, hostels, travel agencies and transport system all more than cater for those not on a package tour, and you can arrive in one town and if you feel like it, be in another town seven hours away before sundown. Five-Star Buses For me, Turkey’s shining star [...]

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Facing Fear in Fethiye

June 19, 2010 Destinations

Initially, our plan for Turkey was to travel eastwards towards Iran, bypassing the Aegean and Mediterranean coastline altogether. Thanks to a bureaucratic mishap experienced by Alicia (my travelling partner) in Hungary, that was no longer possible and we had to extend our time in Turkey by a few days. We decided, then, to head for [...]

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Photo Friday #4: Turkey

June 18, 2010 Food

One of the most popular activities to do in Fethiye, Turkey, aside from going on a blue cruise, is to head down to the fish market in the evening, purchase a fish in the market and take it to one of the surrounding restaurants who will cook it and serve it to you with salad [...]

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Roman Turkey

June 17, 2010 Destinations

After our trip to Gallipoli, we stayed in Eceabat a couple more nights. A quieter option than the larger city of Cannakale across the Dardanelles Strait, we used our comfortable hostel as a base for a visit to the ruins of the city of Troy (Truva in Turkish). We shouldn’t have bothered. And this was [...]

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Lest We Forget

June 16, 2010 Destinations

It was still raining when we left Istanbul. Along with another traveler who was on her way to take a coach to the town of Safranbolu, we braved the elements and caught the tram and then the metro to the otogar (bus station).We were headed for the Gallipoli Peninsula and the towns of Eceabat and [...]

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A Bazaar Experience

June 13, 2010 Destinations

It rained (and then flooded) the entire time we were in Istanbul. Thankfully, both the bazaars we wanted to visit, the Grand Bazaar and the Spice Bazaar, were mostly under cover. After a morning sorting out some things in the Australian consulate just north of Taksim, a more modern area of Istanbul across the Bosphorous [...]

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