The Greek “40 Churches” Population: 85,500 Old names: Saranta Ekklisies (Greek),…
Hard though it is to believe it, one of the least explored parts of Turkey is Trakya (Thrace), the tiny triangle of the…
“Striped Mountain” Population: 186,500 Old name: Rodosto…
Turkey’s capital in all but name Population: 16 million officially Old names: Byzantion,…
All the standard guidebooks cover the Black Sea but they do so often in something of a summary way, with almost all the…
Fans of the wonderful Birds Without Wings will pounce on this minuscule offcut from the research trips that lay behind it which tells…
What bliss to wake up in Mardin in boutique luxury rather than home-stay squalor! I wander downstairs and find the breakfast room indoors…
Today’s the day Rebecca and I are moving to Mardin which nobody has warned us against visiting, thank goodness. The dolmuş leaves from…
The big disappointment of this visit to Diyarbakır is to find so many of the things I’d visited eighteen months ago closed for…
Yippee! The great thing about having visited the giant heads on Nemrut Dağı last night is that we don’t have to get up…