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  1. Van: Where we get taught a lesson in Turkish hospitality

    Blog: 12FOOT3 - 2 February 2010

    There comes a time in every travel blogger’s life where you fall behind on your blog (four months in our case). And there comes a time when something so unexpected happens—something so amazing that it manages to infuse your cynical spirit with pure faith in the goodness of this world—that you feel like you can’t [...]

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  2. Ani & Kars: Blasé Busters!

    Blog: 12FOOT3 - 26 January 2010

    As an around-the-world traveler, you tend to hear a lot of the same questions: What are your favorite countries? How much does a trip like this cost? Where do you do your laundry? But every once in a while, you’ll get a query that really stops and makes you think. Do you become blasé about [...]

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  3. Ayder: Drama in the Kaçkar Mountains

    Blog: 12FOOT3 - 19 January 2010

    If you’ve been following along, you know by now that Turkey has got it all: a wandering coastline bordering lucid blue waters, a cosmopolitan city wrapped around a chewy historical center, snowy white rock springs so lovely that visitors are moved to strip down to their Speedos (in a Muslim country no less), and a [...]

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