Turkey

We slept at a filling station/restaurant/lorry park on the outskirts of Erzerum last night after passing through some spectacular mountain scenery between Bojnurd and Erzerum, where we drove above the … Read more

Day 41 was rather boring. After sleeping in a parking place south of Samsun, we drove along the southern coast of the Black Sea, where dozens of small-to-medium sized towns … Read more

We spent the night at an abandoned garage and found some garlics which had evidently fallen off a lorry and were still quite edible. We then drove to Hattusas, the … Read more

A lazy day, wandered about in Goreme where Jennifer bought some ear rings which change colour in different locations for Kaffa. We then set off for Kayseri, a large industrial … Read more

I remember Konya as a sleepy little provincial town when I passed through in the 1970’s. As we drove there to pay my speeding fine, my heart sank when I … Read more

A most beautiful thing happened to us last night. We turned off the Isparta-Konya road down a little side road and pulled in at a place where we could spend … Read more

Not every day you get woken to the sight of this! Can you believe that five balloons were filled by a Chinese tour group complete with selfie sicks? We had … Read more

We slept at the side of the road beside a brick factory and left early before the brick workers arrived. Fond memories of some delicious cheese and potato gozleme which … Read more

Two days in one: the 5th May was a complete bore with only a ferry trip across an inlet, the satnav showing us in the middle of the sea, and … Read more