"[continued from last entry] ... the power was still out the next morning. When I left it was pouring harder than almost any rain that I had ever seen. I still had traveling to do t ..."
"Antakya is the Antioch of Acts. It became the glittering capital of Roman Asia. When we arrived it was dreary, huddled under lowering cloud, awnings dripping dismally on pedestrian ..."
"We rented a car in Alanya, then: Finike, Myra, Kas, Milas, Selcuk, Efes, Bergama, Assos, Troy, Iznik, Kutahya, Pamukkale, Manvgat and of course Istanbul. (Not in that order.) Grand ..."
"Since my trip to Beirut and Cairo got cancelled, we decided to look for a last minute holiday. At the travel agent in the grocery store in Leiden, we found a trip with Holland Inte ..."
"After all the rock formations we had seen it was time to head back to the coast for some sea and sand. So it was off to a place on the water called Kizkalesi. Firstly we headed alo ..."