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, …
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 …
Today is the anniversary of the death of founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. He passed away in Dolmabahçe Palace at 9:05 am on this day in 1938. Anıtkabir – The Mausoleum Of Atatürk Atatürk’s mausoleum, Anıtkabir, is in Ankara, and while we were in the city for a short time, we were …
In a few weeks, we’ll have been writing this blog for four years…and it’s taken until now to write about a Turkish national favourite dish: Mantı. How’s that happened? That’s how life works out sometimes. And also, while we were in Ankara in May, we ate one of the best servings of mantı we’ve ever …
Have you got a place in the world that is just your determination to visit one day? Our first visit to Istanbul was all back to front. We were there for five days and it was our third day before we even caught sight of Aya Sofya, Sultanahmet Camii (the Blue Mosque) or Süleymaniye Camii …
Turkish food of almost all varieties is much loved by us – it’s just that sometimes it tastes better because of the circumstances we find ourselves in (remember when we were rescued by köfte in Istanbul?). You see, we were in a bit of a predicament when we were in Ankara in May of this …
We’re big advocates of Turkey’s intercity buses and travel on them all the time – hopefully, we’ll be on this Fethiye to Istanbul bus in November – but we’ve got to say, if there’s a train on offer, we’re there! We love us a bit of a train journey and we were excited when we …