Posts in Category: Turkey
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Edirne – Turkiye’s European City
This is the first post in which I am referring to what was formally Turkey as the newly designated official name Turkiye which is pronounced Tur-key-yay making it a three syllable word from the former two. This was another of the many changes brought about by President Erdogan and for once, I’m not going to […]
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Bosphorus Cruise – Leaving Istanbul
This is my third post from the Adventures Abroad Via Egnatia tour led by veteran guide and good friend Victor Romagnoli. In the first post we explored the ancient walls of Constantinople and some interesting Istanbul neighbourhoods. In the second post we visited several mosques, the spice bazaar and then took a cooking lesson. All […]
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Cooking Alaturka – Via Egnatia Day 2
In my first post from the Adventures Abroad Via Egnatia tour our small group explored the ancient walls of Constantinople and several interesting neighbourhoods of Istanbul. Somehow we avoided dropping into one of Istanbul’s 3,000 + mosques, but we’ll remedy that today as we visit the grand Mosque of Suleiman and the much smaller […]
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Unorthodox Istanbul – Via Egnatia Style
This is my first post of many from the recently completed Adventures Abroad Via Egnatia tour led by our good friend Victor Romagnoli. This was a unique tour designed by yours truly and Victor on Malta just after travel resumed post Covid. I described my expectations for this tour in this post and I can […]
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Topkapi Palace – An Istanbul Wonder
This is my 32nd and final post from our fall 2021 trip to western Turkey with Adventures Abroad. The fact that I could write this much about an 18 day trip tells you just how many interesting places are included on this itinerary. In the last post we visited the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in […]
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Via Egnatia with Adventures Abroad
Over the past five years I have written almost one hundred and fifty posts from seventeen different countries that Alison and I have journeyed to with our favourite tour operator Adventures Abroad. Many of those posts appear under the blog heading on the Adventures Abroad website. What they all have in common is that they […]
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Gallipoli – A WWI Tragedy Revisited
It’s the third day of the Adventures Abroad tour of western Turkey and we are headed out from Istanbul after seeing some of the most interesting sites in that city including Hagia Sophia which I described in the last post. Today we are headed for two more of the most important sites in the country, […]
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Hagia Sophia – Church, Mosque or Museum?
In the last two posts we finally got the Adventures Abroad tour of western Turkey underway with a bus tour of the Golden Horn and a walking tour of the Sultanhamet. We concluded the walking tour post at the Baths of Roxelana, but only because Hagia Sophia is worthy of its own recognition. Please join […]
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The Sultanhamet – Nothing Else Like It
In the last post from this Adventures Abroad tour of western Turkey we met our guide and driver and enjoyed an introduction to Istanbul by way of a drive around the Golden Horn. In this post our guide Yasemin Reis will take us on a walking tour of the Sultanhamet district of the city. With […]