Grand Ring Hotel Turkey

... pack of the bags, with all the compressible gear tightly packed, as we're flying back to Istanbul, and a couple of weeks in Turkey, early tomorrow morning. Seems like what we came with will, indeed, return with us in pretty fat bags.     ...

... experience.  It's an incredible country full of ancient and recent history, beautiful landscapes and wonderful people.  Turkey is a must-visit-thoroughly type of place. Canaussie rating: Baklavas: 5, they have like 100 varieties, it's ...

... ; Certainly different to our diary entry for our last trip, where we say we saw LOTS of water buffalo between Istanbul and Ankara.  Turkey has certainly changed in 30 years, and now has a modern economy, rather than a peasant one. Take a leg to the ...

... some of those tensions with Calvin, whose family incidentally is all from Istanbul, arguably the most Western European of Turkey's Western European areas. "I mean what he did to bring us to where we are today was just incredible," Calvin explained, no ...

... taxi we were embarking on the fifteen hour journey to the north. Any preconceived ideas about old, clapped-out buses operating in Turkey can be dispelled immediately. All 'buses' are in actual fact variations on the 'luxury coach'. Ours was a neat blue one ...