mattkrause

I could take bus #139 or 139A from Istanbul to Sile, but today I am in a car. In fact, I have always taken a car up to the Black Sea,...

Ah, just in time to head back then. Were you there during that time of year? Matt

Hi DavidM1,...

Hi go_2, yeah, I probably did push the poetic license envelope a little too much on that one. Thanks for the callout....

I am vacationing in a tiny village on Turkey’s Aegean coast. Less than a hundred people live in this town, perched on a narrow shelf at the...

On a warm summer night the plaza outside the Ortakoy mosque is one of my favorite places to watch Istanbul kick back and relax. The plaza...

Back in 2003, shortly after I arrived in Turkey, I went with some of my Turkish friends to the countryside northeast of Istanbul, up near...

I've been to Ephesus in January, and it was warm sunny, jackets-off weather. Highly recommend it, Ephesus is one of my favorite places in...

Years ago, for dinner on the evening of my first full day in Turkey, I went to a cafe on Istanbul’s Istiklal Caddesi. Istiklal is the busy...