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 …
There are some days in your life that you never forget. Yesterday was one of those days – it was a historic day where your body and head doesn’t quite know what to do with itself; it was a combination of complete frustration, happiness, excitement, that head-in-hands-completely-gutted feeling that has no one-word adjective to describe …
Ahh, our love of köfte once more makes itself known on this blog. I wonder how many times we’ve written about it now…recipes for Tekirdağ Köftesi and just good old barbecued köfte; stories of köfte appreciation in Eskişehir. And, easily the most distinctive version we’ve tried to date, Doğubeyazıt Köftesi – that really was a …
To witness the tulips. That was the reason for our dash to Istanbul’s Gülhane Park – one of the city’s most famous parks – on our most recent visit to this sprawling megacity. We were primarily in Istanbul for one of Turkey’s top running events; the Istanbul Half Marathon. But any running event is also …