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31. oktober - A Scooters i Tyrklandi inn i midja skrudgongu!

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 | By disa | Views [758] | Comments [2]

I Cappadochia heradi forum vid i ferd a Scooters sem var mjog skemmtilegt. Vorum ca. 5 tima a ferdinni um heradid og i gegnum nokkra litla baei. Lentum inni i midri skrudgongu i einum baenum, thad var Republic Day. I seinnihluta ferdarinnar neitadi ... Read more >

31. oktober - Daudahafid i Jordan og badhus i Damascus, Syrlandi

Sat, 1 Nov 2008 | By disa | Views [663]

Hı aftur, tha er eg komin til İstanbul og ferdinni formlega lokid.  30 dagar sidan eg for ad heiman og hef komid i 3 heimsalfur - Evropu, Afrıku og Asıu og thegar eg kem heim hef eg stigid nidur faeti i 6 londum - Frakklandi (Paris), Egyptalandı, Jordaniu, ... Read more >

Chapter 2: Acquaintances Old & New

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 | By goreme1990 | Views [2692] | Comments [3]

In early August, 2002, we arrived at Istanbul Airport. When we got off the plane and out into the open we just stood for a while, breathing in the summer air. The airport hadn’t changed but we had. Old hands, we knew if we just waited long enough, ... Read more >

Tags: cappadocia, goreme, kayseri, lisa morrow, travel, turkey

Gallery: The Ferry across Lake Van

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 | By pecosbiff | Photo Gallery


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Gallery: Train to Tehran

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 | By pecosbiff | Photo Gallery

The party on wheels
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Fri 10th Oct - Trans Asia Express

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 | By pecosbiff | Views [820]

I awoke in the Bible. In Beyhan dry baked station somewhere. It is a long day but the landscape is getting greener -the persistence of life is something else. Last night Nigel, jeanne and Stuart were the last to leave the party and were landed with ... Read more >

Tags: delays, lake van

Gallery: The last of Istanbul

Thu, 9 Oct 2008 | By pecosbiff | Photo Gallery

sob, sob
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The Party on Wheels!

Thu, 9 Oct 2008 | By pecosbiff | Views [1164]

The landscape thru Turkey is like the moon and strangely satisfying after the chaos of Istanbul. A few cows, one shepherd with his flok at the water's edge, one tiny army base, then colourless land mile after mile. I am drinking coffee in the restaurant ... Read more >

Goodbye, Istanbul

Thu, 9 Oct 2008 | By pecosbiff | Views [1170]

I will miss: Yoghurt and fruit, turkish coffee and black kitten at the Waterpipe cafe. Mosques singing to each other at dusk. The changing enchanting population at the Big Apple hostel in Sultanahmet. Nipping across the Bosphorous on an errand. Walking ... Read more >

Tags: trans-asia express

How it should be

Wed, 8 Oct 2008 | By pecosbiff | Views [1065]

'We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars' Oscar Wilde Or, in the case of Jon and me last night in Istanbul, sitting in the road on little red plastic stools in good Turkish company watching a cartman make kebab. Then eating ... Read more >

Tags: food, the point of travel

8th Oct - Istanbul

Wed, 8 Oct 2008 | By pecosbiff | Views [563]

The excitement! Packed and checked out by 12, left hateful rucksack under Fergus' bed and out into Sultanahmet for the last time. Been here so long now was quite happy to chat extensively with carpet shopman and extricate myself gracefully. I was impressed.... Read more >

Tags: money, off again

Gallery: Istanbul

Tue, 7 Oct 2008 | By pecosbiff | Photo Gallery

Istanbul
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Tues 7 Oct - Istanbul

Tue, 7 Oct 2008 | By pecosbiff | Views [459]

Last real day here. Stayed up late reading new book Jason Goodwin's Lords of the Horizon, the history of the Ottoman Empire. I am up to 1329. It is, like his Yashmin the Eunuch novels, terrific. The guy can write. Good sleep tho missed Jon. Woke up ... Read more >

Mon 6th Oct - Istanbul

Mon, 6 Oct 2008 | By pecosbiff | Views [1162]

Woken up by the bored Aussie kids going off to Gallipoli which is another thing they probably won't enjoy or see the point of, poor lads. Breakfast on the terrace overlooking the Bosphorus which is beginning to feel like a normal thing to do. Damn it, ... Read more >

Tags: banks, living in istanbul

Sun 5th Oct - Istanbul

Mon, 6 Oct 2008 | By pecosbiff | Views [1223]

Had free breakfast on the roof terrace and it was shaping up to be very hot but an hour later Bang! pouring rain and temp dropped like a concubine in a sack into the Bosphorous. So cheered up enormously. Nigel and Jeanne lent me their laptop, first time ... Read more >

Tags: rain, tsunami

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