Category: Turkey

4Runner Roadtrip – A Race Across Turkey and a Holiday in Greece

With our time in Georgia finishing up and our doctors appointments set in Turkey, we reluctantly left our sea side town. We were quite curious to see the Black Sea from the Turkey coast line. Our plan was to spend a few weeks, maybe more going across the top of Turkey and finishing our loop […]

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4Runner Roadtrip – Turkey Part 3

After leaving the Rain Hotel we had just a short amount of coast and then we were headed inland and north into Eastern Turkey. It was this section of our trip that things took a noticeable turn towards social conservativism. The majority of the women we saw were dressed much more modestly and the price […]

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4Runner Roadtrip – Turkey Part 2

After leaving Fethiye we were headed to Kaş. Kaş is another costal town that we were quite looking forward to visiting. It had a reputation of being quiet and much smaller than Fethiye but with a good expat population, something we were interested in checking out as you never know where you might want to […]

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4Runner Roadtrip – Turkey Part 1

Our first stop in Turkey was a little town called Eceabat, just across from Çanakkale on the Dardanelles Strait. It’s a gateway to the Gallipoli WWI battlefields and they have several monuments in the little town. Our hotel was just a short walk into the little town and we spent a bit of time looking […]

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4Runner Roadtrip – Sardinia to Turkey

After almost 6 months living on Sardinia we were ready to head out on our big Caucuses adventure. Shani had successfully navigated the Italian citizenship system and had a freshly minted Italian passport and ID card. None of which would have been possible without the help of our new friends Nicola and our landlady Piera. […]

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The Not So Grand Bazaar? Istanbul, Turkey

    I had visions of magic carpets flying through the air, incense burning, people smoking hookah pipes and drinking tea, a few random animals meandering, and a secret shop around a corner that I had to say Open Sesame in order to get in!   I had heard so much about how wonderful the […]

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Worth getting up at Dawn? Sunrise in Cappadocia

When our alarm went off at dawn, I seriously wondered if this would be worth it.  Did I really want to really want to crawl out from under this wonderful, warm, down comforter pull on gloves and a beanie and trek up a hill?  “Hell, no!” my cold hating, sleep loving body answered.  Really, on […]

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Adventures in Turkey

  You must be wondering what is this crazy girl doing wearing a skirt and tank in the snow!  But, hey, that’s not snow!  It really looks like it though – doesn’t it?  Absolutely stunning to wander through the natural formations at the base of the Heirapolis ruins in Turkey.  They call them travertines – […]

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