Posts in Tag: Adventurers Abroad
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Pergamon – Visiting Turkey’s Roman Stronghold
This is the fourth day of the Adventures Abroad trip that Alison and I took to Turkey in October, 2021. Yesterday we left Istanbul and toured the battlefields of Gallipoli and then visited the almost mythical site of ancient Troy. Today we are headed to Pergamon another ancient city. Unlike Troy which has nine layers […]
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Troy – Walking with Achilles, Ajax & Agamemnon
In the last post on this Adventures Abroad tour of western Turkey we left the city of Istanbul and traversed Turkish Thrace to the WWI battlefields of Gallipoli. It was a sobering experience viewing the places where over 100,000 young men lost their lives, not for King and Country, but for nothing. In this post […]
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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 […]
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The Golden Horn – Touring the Heart of Istanbul
This is a description of the first full day of an Adventures Abroad tour of western Turkey that Alison and I took in October, 2021. Thanks to the pathetic state of the Turkish lira, at well under $5,000 Cdn this tour is one of the great bargains in travel today. In my first post from […]
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Istanbul – Your Introduction to Turkey
This is the second of what promises to be many posts from one my all time favourite countries, Turkey. In the first post I gave the reasons why Turkey should be on every world traveller’s radar, even in these pandemic times. In this post I’ll introduce the reader to one of the world’s greatest cities, […]
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Turkey With Adventures Abroad
Last October, during a respite in the Covid pandemic, Alison and I travelled to Turkey with Adventures Abroad. We had been to this wonderful country a number of times before and leapt at the chance to visit it again, particularly as the itinerary included a number of places we had not been to before, notably […]
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Cittadella Gozo – Malta’s Most Magnificent Castle
Alas, this is my final post from the tiny island nation of Malta. Although I was only here for six days on an Adventures Abroad trip led by Victor Romagnoli in October, 2021 during a respite in the Covid pandemic, I saw and experienced enough to write fourteen separate posts. In the last two posts […]