This was our second attempt at trying to visit Cassino War Cemetery where the Commonwealth servicemen who lost their lives during the fierce battle of Monte Cassino are laid to rest. In 2012, when we were last in Italy, we’d tried to find it then. Our friend’s family home is in the area, close to the …
We loved our time on Sperlonga beach on the coast of Italy’s Lazio region. Why do we love our website title, Turkey’s For Life? Because it’s us; it has numerous meanings – just one of which suggests that Turkey is most definitely our home. And, when somewhere is your home, that means you can wander …
Spring is in the air in Fethiye and, with the warmer temperatures, blooming annual tulips and a cacophony of drills, hammers, saws and angle grinders, thoughts turn to travel. It’s a bit of a travel theme on the blog and our Facebook page this week, looking back on past wanderings and, at the end of …
How do you research before you travel somewhere new? Back in May, we went to Italy to stay with some friends. The family home is in the Cassino area of Italy, an area we had never heard of until these friends bought us a book, ‘Monte Cassino’ by Matthew Parker. Cassino was the scene in …
A timely post, really. We’re not going to write too much on this blog about what we got up to while we were in Italy in April / May of this year – after all, we are a blog about our life in Turkey. However, regular readers will be more than aware that we love …
During our recent trip to Italy, our friend took us out for the day, and when we asked him where we were going, his reply was, “I’m taking you to Italy’s Kayaköy. San Pietro.” If you know Southwest Turkey well, looking at the following series of photos, you would be forgiven for thinking you were …