Category: Turkey

On Gokhan’s recommendation we were considering changing our plans and heading south to the warmer Mediterranean coast - and a more westernised part of…

We spent three days at Sile, a town with a harbour on the Black Sea coast, 25 miles east of Istanbul.  We called in…

The last time we crossed the border from Greece into to Turkey we were held up for more than four hours at Customs; it…

After a snowy night at MAN Truck and Bus Dealership We arrived at the MAN dealership in Istanbul on a snowy Sunday afternoon. Gokhan…

Blue dot was Sile on Black Sea - south of Istanbul was Marmaris Sea and the Dardanelles leading to the Aegean Sea We had…

The site had been opened to the public since 1964 We visited the town of Kaymakli to see one of many underground cities in…

Panoramic Camping at Göreme The town of Göreme (sounds like Gory-em) lay 3,500 feet above sea level in the Cappadocia region of Turkey and…

Taurus Mountains We had a couple of mountain ranges to cross on our way to Konya where we were having an exhaust brake fitted…