Category Archives: Turkey

4 October, 2011 After a three hour bus trip from Bodrum I checked in to my pension (pansiyon in Turkish) and walked down to the harbour to buy my ferry ticket to Rhodes (for tomorrow morning). It cost 40 euros. I … Continue reading →

Bodrum 1-3 October, 2011 I arrived in Bodrum at the southern end of the Aegean coast of Turkey, after a 3 hour bus trip from Selcuk. Bodrum was called Halikarnassos in the times of Ancient Greece. It was the home … Continue reading →

27-30 September, 2011 Just arrived in Selçuk by bus from Bursa (7 hours). Since Odessa I have been heading south, prolonging the summer! One of the main reasons to come to Selçuk is to visit nearby Ephesus (Efes in Turkish), … Continue reading →

25-26 September, 2011 I am in Asia! After a 90 minute ferry ride and a 45 minute bus ride I arrived in downtown Bursa, 4th largest city in Turkey (about 2.6m population). Very different from Istanbul. Tourists are hardly to … Continue reading →

Saturday, 24 September 2011 On my last day in Istanbul I visited the Archaeological Museum and the Tiled Pavilion. I was especially interested in the Museum’s display of sarcophagi from the Necropolis of Sidon. I had never heard of it before, but … Continue reading →

23-24 September, 2011 An amazing and heart-warming event took place in Istanbul last Tuesday night. A football match (between the Turkish clubs Fenerbahce and Manisaspor) took place in front of a capacity crowd of 41,000 – all women and children … Continue reading →

21-22 September, 2011 I caught a ferry from Istanbul to Büyükada, the largest of the nine Princes’ Islands in the Sea of Marmara. It took a bit over an hour after stopping at three of the other islands first. The … Continue reading →

16-20 September, 2011 Here I am in Istanbul (formerly Byzantium and Constantinople). I took a plane from Odessa Airport (just a small single storey building) to Istanbul, not much more than one hour in flight. My idea of going by … Continue reading →