In our last Babadağ post, we wrote about the event that took us up there; the live music performance as part of the Fethiye Classical Music Festival in memory of cellist, Benyamin Sönmez. There can’t be many more perfect settings for live music than the top of the Fethiye area’s highest mountain; Mediterranean scenes below, …
Memories from our time in Izmir: there are a lot of them. Food more than played it’s part by way of the söğüş, Çeşme kumrusu and the stuffed mussels. In between meals, we also managed a bit of sightseeing. Of course, we couldn’t go to Izmir without taking many photographs of the famous Izmir Saat …
As shopping centres go, the Egyptian Spice Bazaar in Istanbul is both
historic and aesthetically pleasing. We love walking through the Bazaar to
sense history and breath in the jumble of aromas…
Our previous post was a series of photos showing different scenes from the site of the temple of Leto, Letoon. This post is another photo story but this time, all the shots are of different areas of the site of Xanthos. While Letoon was the religious centre of the Lycian Federation, Xanthos was the Lycian …
Regular visitors to this blog will have worked out long ago that we’re not big on covering all the main tourist sights of Turkey here. It’s not that we don’t want to! The problem is, we only started this blog a couple of years back when we’d already made numerous visits to Turkey and lived …
We posted about the boat trip from Fethiye to Göcek market last year and, last Sunday, we made the trip again. In this post, we’d like you to join us on our outing as we sail from Fethiye, across the bay to beautiful Göcek and back again. Our journey begins at 11 am, just after …
At exactly this time last year, we had just arrived in Istanbul and were walking down Istiklal Caddesi, heading towards Sultanahmet, after being dropped off by our service bus in Taksim Square. It had been a few years since we had last been to Istanbul and, despite a long bus journey with fitful sleep, we …