Avsar Otel
Travel Blogs from Altinkum
Ottoman Architecture and Computer Architecture
... This has been a recurring occurrence throughout this trip and will probably continue. It is low tourist season in Turkey and there are very few tourists doing the rounds of the various sites.
Safranbolu (can you believe that name?) may have involved a detour away from our intended path but it did provide an alternative experience. The sort where you let the magic of an entire town get to you through meandering walks.
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A QUIET LITTLE HARBOUR
... over the Roman bridge to the former island for views back over the town. 1900 rendezvous for dinner.
Tried to get lost on my return but failed. Downloaded the pix: will have to use the Nikon format at the normal one was downloading again yesterday's pix. Emails, diary and picture culling for dinner. Sheila the Bag bagged dinner, the rest of us going to Cesm-i Cihan for a nice set meal of the famed local salad, mackeral and ...
Long bus Ride
... to do, the area was devoid of wild life, so it was an early night, sometime during the night, the heavens opened up, thunder, lightning, wind rain lashing down, I thought my tent was going blow away, but only a few pegs were pulled out, the wind and rain stopped, the frogs started with their croaking again, then there was a lot of howling and barking, I don’t know if it was a dog or a wolf, but it went on for hours, which made a ...
Addicted to Boreens
... br> I take the inland route, another dual-carriageway under construction and get to Caycuma, well I had to get somewhere and Caycuma turned out to be as good as any. More in hope than anticipation I follow the signs for the Oz Kul Hotel. Lovely, but too expensive for me. I'm just about to leave when the manager(?) asks if I am staying.
"Too Expensive".
"I have a small room. Not expensive"
"That will be fine thank ...
Looks like İ will go by myself from now on ..
We were hanging out in Zonguldak: trying to get a cheaper tickets to Krym (Crimea).İt took us a couple of days of negotiations and it did not work out ....
My companions are going around one side of the Black Sea and then towards Siberia.
And İ am goıng to İstanbul, then Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova and Ukraine
Quıte a big move!!!
Wish me luck!! ...