As dawn breaks, fog encircles the minarets of Istanbul’s Blue Mosque. Sipping Turkish coffee, we listen to the calls to prayer reverberating from mosques throughout the city, where Asia and Europe meet. A decade ago we fell in love with Turkey. It is a love of the people, the culture, the food and the rich, […]
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Winter in Turkey – Rural Homestead Life
Further to my previous posts on ‘Summer’ and ‘Autumn’ at our farm in the rural southwest of Turkey, I was sort of waiting for winter in Turkey to happen, and then to scribe all about it: BUT, it didn’t happen, neither the season, nor the write-up. Granted it was cooler than autumn and there were […]
Year-Round Mediterranean Open Water Swimming
I’ve opted for a ‘travel post’ with a difference… with distances counted in mere metres rather than flight hours, and by that I’m referring to my having learnt to swim in the open sea. As some may recall, poor spinal health semi-forced a change in lifestyle and priorities a few years ago, and both the […]
Autumn in Turkey – Rural Homestead Life
Following up on the ‘Summer in Turkey’ post a couple of months ago, here’s a look at autumn in Turkey and life in the rural southwest of the country. We don’t really have four distinct seasons in Turkey, unlike some parts of the world, more like a blended move between ‘hot n dry’ and ‘cool […]
Summer in Turkey – Rural Homestead Life
Well I guess I should start off with a ‘Merhaba’ (hello) to all you folks worldwide who follow the amazing lives of these two travel junkies. Having travelled far and wide myself in a previous life, I’m content these days to let these two adventure-mad gadabouts do all the skiing, rowing, walking, flying etc. on […]
A Homemade Gym -Turkey’s COVID Curfew
Here’s the thing, I’m a fairly fit middle-aged chap, with farming among my most recent exploits (for the past 15 years anyway), and probably thanks to that, I ended up with a severely dodgy lower back. Actually, it may have more to do with bad posture as a teenager… and for the following 30-40 years […]