Monday, 15 Jun 2015 | Views [356]
GIVEN THEIR OBSCURITY AND REMOTENESS, the Divrigi Mosque and Nemrut Dag probably aren’t worth a visit. Most visitors to Turkey will never even hear of them. The Divrigi Mosque and Hospital “coulda been a contendah,” as a young ... Read more >
Friday, 12 Jun 2015 | Views [734]
YESTERDAY'S DRIVE SOUTH TO BOGAZKALE, though long, was refreshing; two-lane blacktop winding through rolling hills and freshly sown fields and charming run-down villages. Mustafa was waiting for us with sweet tea at his family’s Hotel Baykul, ... Read more >
Wednesday, 10 Jun 2015 | Views [264]
THE ANCIENT HITTITE CAPITAL OF HATTUSA is only an hour or so east of Ankara but we decided to take a 500 kilometer detour and an overnight visit in the Ottoman town of Safronbolu instead of the direct route. This would be our only chance to visit ... Read more >
Tuesday, 9 Jun 2015 | Views [248]
NOWHERE IN THE AZERBAIJAN WEBSITE DO THEY mention that you cannot get a visa in Turkey unless you are a resident as the friendly folks at the embassy politely informed us. So we had to go through a Baku travel agency on-line and fork over $120 ... Read more >
Saturday, 6 Jun 2015 | Views [322]
PART OF THIS VISIT TO TURKEY IS A TRAVEL EXPERIMENT to test our hypothesis — that it is better to endure the cold desolation of off-season travel than to compete with the tourist hoards of summer. There are many new places we want to see ... Read more >
Thursday, 4 Jun 2015 | Photo Gallery
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