We’re taking you on an East Turkey road trip from Patnos, Ağrı and back to Patnos again, over three days and two nights. It’s around 500 miles in total with not a motorway in sight (nice!) and this is the trip we made in May 2013 with friends. So, the map below is the route …

Last month, we started a new series on the blog where we’ll do a little round up of random goings on that are taking place around Fethiye – those things that kind of all crumple together and wouldn’t otherwise make it into a blog post, but they still give you a picture of daily life. …

Life in Turkey doesn’t happen without yoghurt. And this haydari recipe might just be THE Turkish yoghurt dip. A minty, herby, yoghurty Turkish dip, it’s just a staple of Turkish cuisine. Haydari – Top Of The Pops Whenever you go to a Turkish restaurant where display fridges tempt you with numerous plates that are part …

Küçük Ayasofya Camii is just down the road from the Mangana Konak Suites, so we decided Barry would be okay hobbling strolling that far… How many times have we stayed in Sultanahmet in Istanbul? Let us count. How many times have we been to Istanbul? (Picture a hand waving around in the air in an …

“Have you brought your driving license?”“Yeah, why?”“Good. We’re going on a road trip. You’re driving.” We’d just got off the bus from Erzurum, which was immediately preceded by 20 hours or so on the Doğu Express train from Ankara. Time delays meant we’d decided to stay with our friend for just a couple of days…and …

Eateries in Fethiye; it’s a never-ending, constantly changing, fluid tale. They come / they go / they stick around for years / they completely refurbish. This is how Fethiye rolls. So we’d like to tell you about Denizatı Restaurant in this post. Denizatı Restaurant, Fethiye Denizatı Restaurant is right at the end of phase 2 …

Most of our overnight stays in eastern Turkey were spent in our friend’s apartment in Patnos where she teaches. Amazingly, we don’t have a single photo of Patnos (in the province of Ağrı ) itself. It’s a small town, no landmarks to speak of, and as soon as we set foot off the bus from …

Rail travel in Turkey – it really should be top of everybody’s agenda. This is our photographic journey of the Doğu Express (Doğu Ekspresi) overnight train from Turkey’s capital, Ankara to the city of Kars. We were alighting in Erzurum. Let us set the scene… It’s May 2013 and, so far on our journey, we’ve …

Something a bit different for 2014 for the blog. There are lots of goings on in Fethiye – and in our life – that either never make it into a post or we have to squash them in somewhere at the expense of another post. So we’ve decided, once a month…or so…(in our usual haphazard …

Defensive, is where we’re at with Ankara. Imagine if a city was a person with real thoughts and feelings; we think of cities like this all the time because they’re such complex beings. There’s always so much more to discover than what you first come face to face with on that initial greeting. Over time, …