After a night spent busing through falling snow and over mountain passes we were shaken awake by the bus attendent. It was 5am, much earlier than we had expected and it was cold. Obviously nothing was open and so we were happy to hear the familiar "Hello, where are you from?" Our welcome party ran a pension and invited us to have a look at the r...

May 31st we boarded a 1700 hours bus from Fethiye - this about 5 horas after our sail around the Greek Isles terminated. Did I not mention the 4 day sailing trip around the Turkish islands?! The bus station said we'd arrive into Goreme at 7 or 7:30 Hrs. At 4:45 Hours I was smacked on the head by the bus attendant - "GOREME! GOREME! GET UP! GET U...

"Your powers are weak old man" he said in his deep and sinister voice. "Strike me down and I will be more powerful than you can possibly imagine" I replied. Of course this is the typical type of banter cyclists have when they are attacking big hills. And with that comment the young wipper snapper flew right past me leaving me for the dogs. Aah w...

Well after the party scene at Olympos (it took us a few days to recover) we jumped on an overnight bus to Cappadocia region. This would have to go down as one of the worst bus rides ever. We decided to join the 'FEZ' cruise bus (This is a hop on hop off network around Turkey - not a public bus) as they were the only operators that did a direct b...

After 12 sleepless hours on a bus I arrived in a very tired state to the town of Goreme. I thought that I had changed planets or something as this place was like nothing that ive ever seen before. The whole town was made up of these fairy chimneys which are volcanic plugs and the people have made their homes inside these massive plugs so the who...

I'm stıll here. If I don't show up on my flıght on Wednesday, you can assume that I'm safe and sound and sıttıng ın Göreme lıstenıng to lıve musıc and drınkıng çay. I'd be content to stay forever. I meant to leave Thursday. And then Frıday. Today ıs Saturday. I made ıt as far ...

My time in this country just keeps getting more and more unusual. I turned down the opportunity to hop on the back of one the families scooters and ride through the canyons around Goreme, so I could walk to the open air museum, enjoy some tea in a cafe and shop the fruit markets. All seems rather normal. Instead, I some how ended up spending two...

We had camped during our last visit to Göreme. This time I wanted to stay in a cave, so we did. It was lovely and cool inside so we had a snooze as the overnight bus journey had stuffed us. Consquently we didn't do much that day but we did look around the town up and down the lanes looking at all the different cave houses and hotels, which we di...

I was reunited with Lisay in Pamukkale. That has to be one of the most boring towns on the planet, yet it is worth a visit to see the weird travertine pools formed by calcium deposits. Basically an entire hill looks like a frozen waterfall. From a distance, you look at this hill and it looks like snow, but when you get closer you can see that it...