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A Journey Through Time: Fethiye and the Lycian Coast

Sun, 5 Jun 2022 | By krodin | Views [204]

FETHIYE After visiting a number of Eastern and Northern European capital cities and their national museums, I wanted to take a few days somewhere surrounded by ancient historical sites and nature to work on these blogs. The Lycian ... Read more >

Tags: archeological sites, beach, history, museum, towns

Istanbul: Hagia Sophia—Holy Wisdom

Mon, 20 Feb 2023 | By graynomadsusa | Views [95]

IT’S A CHURCH. NO, IT’S A MOSQUE. WAIT, WASN’T IT A MUSEUM? Today’s Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque has been all of these! Back before Constantinople became Istanbul, sometime around 325AD when the city was still called Byzantium, ... Read more >

Istanbul: The Grand Bazaar and Galata Tower

Sun, 19 Feb 2023 | By graynomadsusa | Views [89]

IN EGYPT THEY CALL IT A SOUK, in Morocco it’s a Medina. Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar has been in business since 1461, steadily expanding to cover 45,000 square meters—about eleven acres— spread out over 64 streets with 4000 shops, ... Read more >

Instantly Istanbul

Fri, 17 Feb 2023 | By graynomadsusa | Views [76]

. . . AND JUST LIKE THAT, OUR MAGIC CARPET flew us to Istanbul! Actually it was Etihad Airlines and it took eleven hours in the air plus ten on the ground in Abu Dhabi. But we are indeed in Istanbul, the city formerly known as Constantinople and before ... Read more >

Tea, Food, Tea, and more Tea!

Fri, 24 Jun 2022 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [121]

My all time favourite drink on this planet, or in this universe, is something unique. It's not a glass of wine, a Red Bull, or a strong coffee, but...Turkish tea in its special tulip-shaped glass called an ince belli . Nine years ago I came to Istanbul ... Read more >