Category: Turkey

Man, this is gonna have to be quick – I gotta get to a ship to sail around Santorini and swim in some hot springsat at a volcano shortly. After last night of tour,and little sleep, next day we visited Aya Sofia – absolutely beautiful cathedral turned mosque in Istanbul. Hopefully I didn’t accidentally delete the pics. Man, next time my photography equipment will be more organised. We ended up back in Taksim that night for dinner with Bec, then… Continue reading

Well when did I leave you last… hmmm … so much has happend!! As you would have read Leighs had some “issues” which brought the website offline for several days not allowing us to update and to get terribly behind. Because of this we both decided to communicate in this entry in point form…enjoy Kas – Stayed at a brilliant place called Hilal Pension which is very relaxed and had a balcony view of the bay. Kas is the sort of town… Continue reading

Don’t know where to start – but somehow during the high of being in such a beautiful, interesting country I managed to have the most stressful time of my life. Starting with my web host seemingly disappearing off the face of the planet. This took out not just this site, but many clients web sites. At one stage it was looking like I would need to cut my holiday short and head home to fix up the mess that ensued…. Continue reading

Sorry there has been no updates for so long, been technical issues due to the webhosting company leigh was using to host a majority of the websites went down. That was resolved yesterday so I am hoping to update the website tonight/tomorrow.     Continue reading

One of the things you just don’t (we’ll I don’t) realise at home is that you do actually need sleep occasionally. I also have to say this diary blog crap thing is turning into the most half-arsed effort – as anything with good intentions seems to turn out. Back to sleep – I have qu?ckly learned that in order to sleep on a tour like this you need to limit each night to 4 – 5 hr, less if you… Continue reading

Hi all,    Well from Malayta to Silifke, a rather interesting few days. Malayta was a nice city to see however it really was a typical city and you couldn’t do much in the time we had there except check out the local markets. You metal section, fruit section, meat, cloths…standard really for any markets…well except the metal section where you had esentially blacksmiths with foundries in the market place belting out pots.    So from Malayta after a morning… Continue reading

Well from the last post we have travelled from Goreme to Malaytia. After the last update most of the group went out to a $25 all you can eat and drink night which started on the effe beer and ended on the Raki or it could be called Ouzo for people who don’t know what Raki is but I have been told it is slightly different. There was dancing and a traditional wedding ceremony put on for us all. Really… Continue reading

Merhaba,  Well that was an ep?c journey to get from Istanbul to Goreme…..Tra?n ride from ?stanbul to Ankara wh?ch was an overn?ghter…yep ? squeezed ?nto a bed on a tra?n and managed to sleep qu?et successfully. The bed was comfortable, four to a room, the only problem be?ng the WC (to?let\bathroom ?n Turkey). There are two types of to?lets ?n Turkey, the squat to?let and the normal everyday western to?let. See?ng the state ?n both I am glad I never… Continue reading

Well what a first couple of days!! Landed in Istanbul around 7.30 am Sunday morning which with a +7 is 14:30 EST. Not too bad I guess, works out to be 22 hours in the air. Getting out of customs was a crack, they didn’t even check our bags, nothing. Very funny. Once arriving Leigh and I walked around the Sultanamet which is a mecca for touters and scam artists. Because it is such a tourist orrientated place they are… Continue reading

OK, thought I should make my first post, been here almost 2 days. Such an amazing place. Arriving at the airport at 7.30am yesterday, after a gruelling 24 hours of air flight – ok, it wasn’t THAT bad – but still. We decided to give public transport a go as the first bit a fun. Not really much different from Melbourne, you jump on a tram or 2, everyone looks at you strangely, no one talks to each other and… Continue reading