Working for the Lonely Planet Turkey guidebook for ten years gave me a fantastic opportunity to travel all over the country. The trouble…
I always forget that you can get across the Sea of Marmara from İstanbul on the ferry from Eskihisar to Topçular. I suppose…
Time was when Kayseri was not a place one actively wanted to visit. The streets were dark, the pavements uneven and after 9pm…
So here I am in Kayseri on a lovely autumn day and I’m running round town like a blue-arsed fly trying to find…
I’m in Kayseri looking for a new yorgan (quilt) of the fast-vanishing old traditional type when I see a bus heading for Talas…
It’s my last day in Istanbul so I’ve decided to do something I ought to have done years ago, namely walk along the…
In the cool of early evening I thought I’d take a turn around the back streets of Eminönü. It always surprises me how…
It being another lovely sunny day, I thought I’d take the ferry up the Golden Horn to Hasköy and check to see whether…
Poking about in the back streets around the Galata Tower, it’s hard to remember that it’s just the most prominent reminder of what…
Two years ago while doing the research for Istanbul The Ultimate Guide one of the parts of the city that most set my…