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  • Quirky Turkey

    Uniquely Turkish Transportation

    19 August 2021 / 0 Comments

    You see all sorts on the roads in Turkey, where necessity is very much the mother of invention. I always keep my camera handy when out and about to snap the truly wonderful.

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    Mike Vickers

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    Once Seen Never Forgotten

    20 August 2021

    Linguistic Idiosyncrasies – Signs, Labels and Menus That Don’t Necessarily Help

    28 October 2021

    If It Moves…

    24 August 2021
  • Tales From Turkey,  Travelling in Turkey

    Back On Board The Turistik Dogu Ekspresi

    27 July 2021 / 0 Comments

    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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    FLOP – Looking at life on the street from an alternative point of view…

    27 July 2021

    A Short Stay In Selimiye

    19 August 2021

    Sonbahar – Autumn in and around Fethiye

    26 July 2021
  • Tales From Turkey,  Travelling in Turkey

    Kars. The Colder The Weather, The Warmer The People.

    27 July 2021 / 0 Comments

    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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    Meeting New Friends

    27 July 2021

    Collective Nouns

    19 August 2021

    Remember The Summer?

    27 July 2021
  • Tales From Turkey,  Travelling in Turkey

    All Aboard the Turistik Dogu Ekspresi To Kars

    27 July 2021 / 0 Comments

    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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    Mike Vickers

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    Kars. The Colder The Weather, The Warmer The People.

    27 July 2021

    Back On Board The Turistik Dogu Ekspresi

    27 July 2021

    Charming Çıralı – And A Tribute To The D400

    27 July 2021

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