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Classic Turkish Tour – 12 Days of Magnificence
Blog: Vagobond.com - 2 August 2011
For a 12 Day Classic Turkey Tour, I recommend you visit the cities of Istanbul, Bursa, Ephesus, Bodrum, Dalyan, Kas, Konya and of course Cappadocia.
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Manisa, Turkey – Home of the Lunatics – Our New Home
Blog: Vagobond.com - 23 August 2010
We left Bursa the way we came but without the guy in the bad suit. Indeed, though we did see him when we were leaving. We were carrying our bags down to the bus stop and this time we saw him sitting on a concrete wall, smoking a cigarette, no shoes, and wearing some scruffy clothes. He smiled and waved and it took me a second to place him because the bad suit had been so powerful. I waved back and Hanane said “Who was that?”
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Bursa – Home of the Iskendar Kebap
Blog: Vagobond.com - 22 August 2010
It turns out that following the guy in the bad suit, wasn't such a bad idea after all. He walked us right to the guest hose we had chosen, the Otel Gunes in Central Bursa, talked with the family that ran the place to make sure they had a room and then shook my hand and gave a merry wave before heading off. This kind of kindness from strangers we found to be common in Turkey and unlike in Morocco, the strangers didn't ask us for anything. They didn't ask for our phone numbers, emails, for us to visit their uncle's carpet shops, about starting a business, or anything else.
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Traveling in Tandem in Turkey
Blog: Vagobond.com - 2 August 2010
Travel in Tandem is different than solo travel I knew traveling with Hanane would be different than my solo travels, but I didn’t know exactly how. It’s funny. It’s helped me to learn a little about myself and about how I usually travel. First, let me say, I definitely married the right woman. Hanane and I [...]
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