It’s been a while since I was in İstanbul so it was fun to take a turn along Ordu Caddesi (Army Street) and…
Over the last thirty years İstanbul has grown enormously. A city that had at the time of the Ottoman Conquest in 1453 a…
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…
The memory is a very curious thing. On a previous visit to Kahta people had told me about a castle at Gerger which,…
There was a time when it was hard to find any information about tourist attractions in Turkey but the situation is improving rapidly…
As night bus rides go I suppose the run from Göreme to Adiyaman could have been worse if only it hadn’t got me…
On what must have been one of the coldest evenings of the year I took to the streets of Kurtuluş to see what…