Weather in Turkey

... . In Europe I will be focussed on travelling Eastern Europe, the Baltics, Greece, Italy and Turkey. In Asia - Thailand and Vietnam. Where exactly I travel to may depend on serendipity, weather and timing. Thank you for joining me on my year long journey!

... (kokoreç) sandwiches. Really very tasty and something new for me. Watched 'Mean Creek' on video. Friday 25th November Weather still miserable. Apart from a short trip outside for lunch I stayed in all day answering mail, working on ZooNews, ...

... on the Scottish island of Iona and other such interesting bits of information. A fascinating guy to talk too. He described the weather we are having at present as "weather for connoisseurs". A memorable phrase and so true. Friday 11th November This ...

... other and it's a mad house.  We gulp down our food and when the bill arrives, the waiter tells us :" We have never seen a weather like this here, ever!"  Ok, that doesn't sound too promissing.  I ask him if he knows what the weather is like ...

... were high winds during the night and rain first thing. I was feeling I had made a mistake buying my tickets yesterday but the weather quickly cleared up. We were ten minutes late in starting out as Matt, a young Australian had slept in. Matt had flown ...

... . This trip was all about sun and sand and relaxing before I start the big job hunt. It was good food, lots of hot weather and much entertainment. Side is an old roman city with tons of roman architecture and ruins. The amphitheater is one of the largest ...

... in the park but that too has gone. The building still remains and looks both sound and serviceable, but I saw nothing within. The weather this morning was sunny. This was a good omen as we had arranged to visit the zoo in Darica with Gaby M (who I ...

... buzzards and a few vultures. The only thing that bothered me was that there didn't appear to be anywhere to escape the weather ... It was pouring down at this point. The only primates were a group of Hamadryas baboons. They were being sensible and ...

... and the next day I was ready to head off. Snow, in Turkey? As I left she was quite worried about me, weather reports were talking of a cold snap for Turkey in the next few days. She kept asking “are you sure you will be ok?”, “ are you ...

... don't know exactly but it must have been at least 5 km long!! As was becoming the case more often as winter closed in the weather was pretty appalling with heavy persistent rain. I decided to call it a day once I reached Edirne, the first town across the ...

... Burgas to Malko Tarnovo (80 km). With our previous plans of navigating our way along the Bulgarian coast scuppered due to the unforeseen weather making its way across the Balkans, it was essential we made an early start to make it to the Turkish coast on ...

... knowledge of the site. The city was amazing, the second best one I have seen after Pompeii. After severall really hot weather days, it was fantastic that the temperature was cooler because it was overcast...otherwise we wouldn't have enjoyed the tour ...

... 1 day of rain. Since 1st February we have experienced about 8 days so far, some of it torrential.   The inclement weather hasn't deterred us from working on Tiercel. Most of the work has involved, of course, preparing her bottom for the coming ...

... to Rhodes so we stop in and talk with them and learn the same the boat comes and goes of Tuesdays and Thursday if the weather is good. We ask about the last statement and then realize we could be sitting there for a long time waiting for good weather to ...

... earlier then usual I still slept in till late which was again amazing. By this time I had gotten a pretty bad cold from the freezing weather I think. So we all bundled up again and went out. It was Jenna, Mave and I for the day. We went to Taxim Square, ...

... were in Bodrum the temperatures were usually 45 degrees during the day, and would cool down to around 39 degrees in the evening. With the weather so hot, it's hard to get motivated to do anything, and Helen and I got in to the habit of having a nice cold ...

... the month of November. It must have been much easier to fast at that time of the year as the days were shorter, and the weather was cooler. The other night I was visiting Bulent at his shop around 7pm, and there was a group of them getting ready to ...

... you will have seen before and the underground city’s where some people never came up for air for years are incredible. The weather here is rotten and there is very few tourists around, yesterday we were walking around the ruins and got a shock as a ...

... the sights and the people. On my last day in Istanbul, I went out with two of my friends to an area near the Bosphorous which was very relaxing despite the cold weather! I thoroughly enjoyed Turkey and the Turkish people. I will definitely ...

... rambling bazaars with shops selling everything imaginable including spices, rugs, jewelry, pashminas, blue china, and on and on. The weather here is brisk - in the 60s (refreshing after hot India). To get our bearings we walked along the ...

... think that sultans lived there I didn't really connect with the place, maybe because I was a bit grumpy at the miserable weather. After a lunch break (the first of many varieties of kebab) we visited an underground cistern- I missed the explanation but ...