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Charming Çıralı – And A Tribute To The D400
Çıralı is a charming, traditional coastal village, famed for the ruins of ancient Olympos and the Chimaera, the eternal flames that sprout out of the ground. It’s quite a place - and we even managed to avoid scorching our shoes!
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Meeting New Friends
Covid restrictions curtailed our freedom and denied us the company of friends, so I had to improvise and populated the garden with imaginary characters of a bushy nature. It was a bit worrying, to be honest...
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Springtime In Fethiye
Join me on a bike ride along The Blue Path of Beauty into Fethiye where I enjoy the resurgence of scent and colour as flowers come into bloom once again.
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Lockdown Living
The arrival of the pandemic forced us all to adapt to the new normal, where we heard rumours you could swap an Andrex twin-pack for a Renault Clio. On a personal level, I built a Jenga tower out of toilet rolls worth more than several bitcoin while Jan struggled with a buffering TV.
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Back On Board The Turistik Dogu Ekspresi
Aboard the train once more, we trundle back westwards again, visiting Divriği’s amazing Ulu Camii and hospital and wonderful Sivas before spending our final day in Ankara itself and paying our respects to Atatürk at the Anitkabir, his mausoleum at the heart of the capital.
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Kars. The Colder The Weather, The Warmer The People.
Bundled up against the bitter weather, we spend three days in Kars, visiting the haunting ruins of Ani right on the border with Armenia and taking a troika ride on the very firmly frozen Lake Çildir. Lordy, was it cold!
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All Aboard the Turistik Dogu Ekspresi To Kars
Join us on an epic 1300km railway journey eastwards right across Turkey to the thoroughly frozen town of Kars, stopping on the way to visit some wonderful places. Except Erzincan, where the train rumbled off. We were not on it!
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Remember The Summer?
When the wind howls and the lashing rain hits you sideways on, thoughts naturally turn to the balmy summer months, but beware - it’s not all good news!
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FLOP – Looking at life on the street from an alternative point of view…
Meet our furry friends, the cats and dogs who spend their lives living on the street. It can be a hard life, but only if you haven’t trained your humans properly...
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Sonbahar – Autumn in and around Fethiye
Welcomed by one and all after the fierce and unrelenting heat of summer, sonbahar heralds a second spring as the autumn rains stir life in parched soils around Fethiye.