Radisson Blu Resort & Spa Cesme

I've always been proud of how infrequently I get sick and how resilient I am to food from other cultures. Traveled China and Ethiopia with little or no difficulty. But something is in my gut now and it's not happy! Moving hurts, and anything that I attempt to put inside is rejected immediately!

For 3 days now we've been laid up in this lovely hotel, where we've been stuffed full of tea until it leaks out our ears, trying to recover. The first ...

Getting to be an expert at getting lost in different countries. Takes some practice, but I’m getting better and better as this trip continues. It wasn’t for want of trying though. I must have asked in almost every store in town yesterday for a map. The only ones I could find were full country maps with only the largest of roads shown. The one I finally settled on has a scale of 1:1 750 000 - we ...

... work and make useful tools?

Where do spice shops abound and everything is sold in bulk?

Where do you get friendly waves and honks while cycling?

Where can you go into a shop to buy something they don't stock ad the shop owner runs out to get it for you from another shop?

Where do old men eat more mandarins than they sell?

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TURKEY!!!!!

Destination 396

[Ferry]

According to the fact, that I already have travelled around Eastern Europe at the beginning of this worldtrip, there was little reason - or better said, little money left - to do it again. So it was planed to take one of those many ferrys connecting almost every corner of the european coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
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... to eat which served steak, and it was an expensive meal but one of the best steaks I've ever had. Chris said the same of hers. We had asked if they had any amaretto for Christine, but alas no. However, when we’d finished the meal the waiter brought out a couple of crème de menthe liquors on the house, so that just topped it off nicely.

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... family profession was only the Mastique farmers lives were spared...my mothers side (which is the Greek side by the way) had several trees and their lives were spared thus creating the opportunity for people to live and produce the resin. We drove through the island which measures aprox 30 miles long by about 15 miles wide. One of the stops was at the famous Neo Moni monastery which has been in existence since the Byzantine era. This lil church is jam ...

... church. I thought I'd go over and climb to just above it and try for a photo of the town with the church framed in the foreground.

But, the framing wasn't to be found. However, coming back down past the church I heard some raucous voices emanating from an open window in the building just behind the church. Standing unseen beneath the window I recorded the voices from ...

... the driver realised that he was running late, forgot to drop off a very irate woman at the correct place and hauled her further 50kms before she could escape. He then proceeded to have a ten minute row with her outside the bus. When he got back aboard he knew he was now outrageously late and started to drive as if all the fiends of hell, or even Anne Robinson, were after him. We arrived at Canakkale harbour just as a ferry was leaving. The bus shot through the closing gates ...

... so cute there! I really think if you're gonna be in the area, you should check it out for sure!! Nunu got a haircut finally! The barber gave us a traveler's guide to the town...you can look at it when I come home! I started getting dizzy because I was tired and hungry. But we trekked on. There is a bus terminal in the area. We might end up taking a bus to Ankara after all. This way, we can enjoy the scenery along the way AND not get ripped off because we ...

... leader for the tour left us on way to sea beach as he had to reach Istanbul. The place we had lunch was right on the sea shore & the view around was indeed beautiful. After lunch we went to sea beach & had swim from 2.30 to 4.30. leaving the beach at 5 o'clock we went to Virgin Mary's House, high up the hills & valleys. It was indeed very interesting a place & we stayed for about half an hour. August 8th Izmir In the morning we went to 34th Izmir ...