“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, …
We actually eat chicken schnitzel all year round, but in summer, served with a salad, it’s perfect! As the warmer summer months start to kick in and the temperatures rise, thoughts begin to turn to salads and meze dishes. Main meals become a much more simple affair; some seared fish with salad, grilled or sauteed …
Back in February 2013, we wrote a blog post about the treats of our local bakery. Our local bakery has changed hands many times – it’s difficult for them to make enough money – but the recent owners are hanging on in there. We always try to support our local businesses anyway, but our bakery …
So, what have we told you thus far about our (too) short time in Ankara last May? A quick recap: And that ciğer şiş is where we’ll continue our story. Because we were looking for the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations. We’d walked – a lot – uphill. It was cold, very wet and many of …
A good old traditional meat and potato pie! So hard to beat! We do get the odd pang, every now and then, for some good old English comfort food (remember our recipe for home made crumpets many moons ago?). And, when the weather’s cold in Fethiye, our bodies crave a bit of that type of …