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Datça Peninsula: Palamutbükü 8 Years On
Blog: Turkey's For Life - 24 January 2012
A little over 8 years ago, we were taken on a road trip to the Datça Peninsula for a short break with friends. It was November and Datça was deserted and beautiful. Just about everywhere we visited was closed up for the winter months, but we didn't mind as we were there to chill out for a few days and enjoy the solitude.
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Our Datça Holiday - The Village of Yazıköy
Blog: Turkey's For Life - 2 December 2011
The Datça Peninsula; wild, windy and just stunningly beautiful. That's the impression we came back to Fethiye with last Monday after spending the weekend there with friends. It's 8 years since we were last on this amazing stretch of land that juts out into the Mediterranean/Aegean Sea and, to be honest, while we remembered enjoying its beauty, we had forgotten how truly special it is.
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Cellular confusion
Blog: The Turkish Life - 5 October 2011
Despite their many and long-held animosities, Turkey and Greece have a lot in common. Not that either of them would admit it. When I visited Athens a few years ago, people often stiffened noticeably when we told them we were from Istanbul, and then insisted we absolutely must try "Greek baklava," "Greek coffee," or "Greek kebab" -- all of which tasted pretty much exactly like their Turkish counterparts.
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Bravo, güneş!
Blog: The Turkish Life - 17 May 2011
Perhaps everyone was just in a laudatory mood after spending the afternoon cheering runners (myself included!) as they passed the finish line set up in the little town square during the first
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Ephesus: The Best Roman Ruins in Turkey
Blog: Travelogged - 2 August 2010
Last summer, I spent 8 days in Turkey.
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Ordinary encounters I won't forget
Blog: The Turkish Life - 21 July 2010
"Çekme! Çekme!" Though I couldn't see the source of the voice as I squinted into the low sun, which had been setting ever so beautifully on one of Ayvalık's old cobblestone streets, the message was clear: Don't take that picture. I lowered my camera. "Çekmiyorum," I called back. I'm not shooting. Afraid of what faux pas I might have committed or what awkward situation I might have stumbled into, I approached the woman who had called out to me. She wasn't angry at all.
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Off-season on the Aegean
Blog: The Turkish Life - 22 February 2010
Come summer, or so I'm told, the Aegean towns of Çesme (right) and, especially, nearby Alaçatı (below) will be mobbed with rich İstanbul'lus as some of the city's poshest and most popular restaurants and
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Deve güreşi
Blog: The Turkish Life - 21 February 2010
First, let me clear up a couple of misconceptions: Turkish oil wrestling has nothing to do with girls in bikinis and camel wrestling does not involve men tussling with dromedaries. Having now witnessed both sports, I can say that there are some surprising similarities between the two.
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On the road again
Blog: The Turkish Life - 20 February 2010
Strange as it may seem -- and I know it does seem very strange to some -- there's something I really, really love about sitting at a makeshift roadside bus stop, eating crackers and watching the traffic go by.
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Pamukkale and Hierapolis - Cotton Castle and the Roman spa city
Blog: nateniale { reflections on my travels and everything else I love } - 29 December 2009
We left our hotel in Kusadasi early in the morning with quite heavy rain, while the bus made its way to a town called Pamukkale which meant cotton castle. The town was about 3 hours away, and we hoped that the rain would stop before we got there. Our tour guide was a retired English teacher, who mothered us pretty well!
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Seaside town of Kusadasi and the ruins in Selçuk and Ephesus
Blog: nateniale { reflections on my travels and everything else I love } - 29 December 2009
Our 5th day started with a beautiful view from our hotel in Kusadasi. We arrived pretty late the night before, and so we could not really enjoy the view. We went out for a short walk in the morning to soak in the scenery. Kusadasi is a town by the Aegean Sea. It is a beautiful seaside town that is mainly catered for tourists. And so, like all seaside tourist town, it doesn’t have much of a culture.
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Acropolis and Asclepion of Pergamum
Blog: nateniale { reflections on my travels and everything else I love } - 15 December 2009
We took a morning flight from Istanbul to Izmir, and from there, it was a 3 hour car ride to Pergamum. First stop was Acropolis - a old city on top of a hill. The whole area was pretty run down, with lots of ruins and rubble. According to our tour guide, many of the archeological treasures were excavated by the Germans and were displayed in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.
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Selçuk and Ephesus: Doin’ the Ruins
Blog: 12FOOT3 - 9 December 2009
Selçuk is a very common stop on the Turkish backpacker route and it’s not hard to see why: it’s located on the Aegean but it’s pretty much the midpoint between Istanbul and the Mediterranean coast (located 9 hours from Istanbul and about the same from Fethiye), and it boasts some of the best-preserved Greco-Roman ruins [...]
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When East Meets West, Istanbul Is The Literal Definition
Blog: EZGuler - 26 August 2009
It's not easy to cast my biased aside. Afterall, I did spend six healthy and happy years in the centre of the city everyone, for some reason, regardless of the fall of the Roman Empire, still calls Constantinople. It's a nostalgia thing, I imagine. However, the Ottomans weren't the only ones who conquered Istanbul and made it their own. I can count on my two hands the number of people I know who have arrived in the pristine, shiny new Ataturk Airport, wide-eyed and hopeful that they would survive to tell truly amazing stories about their trip to Istanbul.
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