One of my favorite blogs is Istanbul Eats. Here you will find news and reviews, tips and advice regarding food and restaurants in, and occasionally out of, Istanbul. A post this week, The Other Hidrellez, led us on an adventure last night up the Bosphorus to the Çayırbaşı quarter of Sarıyer. Just click on that link [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Turkey'
Castles and Caravanserai
April 22nd, 2010 No Comments
There are plenty of old castles between Antakya and Adana, and on our drive to the airport, Mike wanted to see some. None of them were very well known, and none of them had other tourists. That might be because, even though they are near the highway, you have to be persistent in order to [...]
Tags: Adana · Bakras · Sokollu Mehmed Pasa Complex · Toprakkale · Turkey · Yilankale
Karatepe Open Air Museum
April 8th, 2010 No Comments
On Saturday, we flew to Adana where we spent the night and rented a car for our trip south into the province of Hatay. Adana reminded us of Cairo. The streets were packed and noisy — cars, trucks, donkey carts, motorcycles, bicycles, pedestrians, fruit vendors — and the designated lanes were overflowing from 2 lanes [...]
Gümüşlük and the Bodrum Peninsula
February 3rd, 2010 2 Comments
Last weekend, our friends, Bob and Martha, loaned us their house near Gümüşluk. (Gümüşlük means silvery in Turkish.) on the Bodrum Peninsula. This southwestern part of Turkey is full of holiday resorts and villas, swelling from about 30,000 year round residents to over 1,000,000 in the summer. Winter, therefore, seemed like the perfect time for [...]
Tags: Bodrum · Euromos · Gümüşlük · Herakleia · Lake Bafa · Turkey
Aphrodisias
November 30th, 2009 1 Comment
We stopped at Aphrodisias on our way to from Selçuk to Pamukkale. This ancient city was home to a sculpture school, so there are a lot of reliefs and statues to see. There is a pleasant central entrance area to the site that consists of gift shops, tea shops, and a very good museum. The [...]
Tags: Aphrodisias · Turkey
