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Smyrna - Running on empty and a wild goose chase
... disaster it would have been to leave it behind in Selcuk and come all this way.
We noticed a small cafeteria within 100m of the entrance and scanned the notice boards for any signs of English. No luck. But we noticed a helpful expression on the face of one of the staff and decided to make him pay for it. He struggled to understand what we were looking for. He handed us over to some people inside an office who were even more helpless. Another staff member asked ...
Welcome to the country of the doner!
... touch of middle east that defines Turkey. You think now that the whole country is like this in a way, a really open-minded muslim and middle east culture, where the western or european influence decays as you move east in this huge nation. Heir of the Ottoman culture and society, Turkey is a modern country where the muslims values are respected, but ussually not in an extreme way. For example, girls don't ussually cover their hair, ...
Bien salée notre arrivée en turquie !
Le lever de soleil en quittant Karfas pour Chios est magnifique et le passage de la douane Grecque, une formalité. Nous voici donc à 8h du matin a bord du Saint Nikolas pour 45 minutes de traversée bien salée. Vous aviez surement vus dans la video de l'alphabet (réalisée la veille), le puissance du vent sur l'ile..Ce vent a agité la traversée car du pont, nous avons pris de sacrés embruns et vagues dans le tete ! On est ...
The unknown charms of Izmir
... we walked through back streets to find the ancient Agora of Smyrna, Izmir's original incarnation. We found it surrounded on three sides by tall, modern concrete buildings and on the fourth side a run-down flight of steps with weeds growing in their cracks. Guarded by high mesh fences, locked by large rusty padlocks, it seemed as if the Agora was shut away and to an extent forgotten about. Some pristinely new-looking renovation on the pillars bordering the central square suggested ...
Let the Fun Begin
... and only an email from the once beloved travel agent assuring us was all OK (had we heard that before?).
So we duly arrived in Hong Kong and collected our luggage as directed. What the travel agent didn't say in her new Plan B was that after collecting our luggage we found we had to go through customs and this meant leaving the airport, even if it was only out the exit door and then straight back in to the terminal. ...
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