Travel Blogs from Eskisehir, Turkey
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A walk in the park
... bike shop through the city we had an ice cream stop. Unal's friend Mustafa had been preaching to me about the best ice cream in Turkey. İt tuned out that the ice cream he was insistent on buying for me was none other than a Magnum, my favourıte ...
Eskisehir: Waiter, there's a Tomb in the Kitchen!
... studying for advancement opportunities. They paid for lessons from their personal resources. Most students of English in Turkey are explicitly studying, whatever subject, for the purpose of passing competitive university entrance examinations. The ...
What's the Big Deal about Sogut?
... honoring Ertuğrul, is associated with the nomadic Yörük people. I haven't got it all parsed out yet. But, all over Turkey, in several large cities, there are Yörük associations. Sort of like the, say, the Sons of Norway, or something, in my home ...
Another encounter with the police
... also helped me find Yunus a school psychologist. He picked me up from the bakery and after a breif visıt to his school and and multiple cups of tea we went for dinner. Then we had more tea followed by coffee and oh more tea. God İ love Turkey. ...
Football in Eskishier
... boiled eggs, and lots of fruits. Luckily, I was able to find some Nescafe; the closest thing to American coffee in Turkey. The game lasted from 12:00pm until 5pm and it was snowing/raining for most ...
Gordion.....and its Golden Touch King
... huge monster of a motor coach in between them without even honking his horn! Shortly afterwards, the small town of Eskisehir-Gordion was our pit stop for the afternoon. So…. what was so special about this town aside from their beloved ...
Election Day
... a place without any Englısh news. this was a little disappointing as we had gone to a great deal of trouble to vote from turkey. but such is life. So we ended up watching the news about the US Presidential elections in turkısh. now I WAS impressed how ...
Gettıng warm agaın
Dear frıends and famıly, we are now ın Eskısıher. The people are more then frıendly, yesterday we went out for pızza and 2 couples offered to pay for our dınner becouse we lookt poor probebly. After that we set up ...
Mes de res
Comencem a esgotar aquesta plaent travessia del "nothing", la ımmersıo en el no-res, on comencen els quilometres. Quilometres d aigues planes, de blaus politonics, de lliure ıiterpretacio, amb prefaci de poblats nomades en esponjat ordre ...
Shrieking Muslim, Bus Brawl
... just outside of Rome and we're very happy to be in a society where it seems that there is a little bit more "order" about daily life. As a whole people were friendly in Turkey and it wasn't a bad experience other than our last day there. ...
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