Posts in Tag: Via Egnatia
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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 […]