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Ankara preview

April 15, 2013  Tax Day USA
Merhaba,
  We’ve been on our Ankara area trip for 2 days and I have about 400 photos! 
Both days have been very different.
Day 1

Atὂlye AKAKA Keҫe  www.akeka.net   a wonderful shop in a …

Copied from M/V Shearwater's blog

Update (Continued…)

They are on their way!

M/V Shearwater has departed Hong Kong! Our hearty sailors left Hong Kong Sunday morning at about 0630 Hong Kong time (2230 UTC). For those of you who are not familiar, UTC, or Greenwich Mean Time or Zulu, are all names for the time at the 0 meridian,…

A vist to the Ünvers’ home

Merhaba,
A visit to the Sunday Jam Man
Selahattin Ünver  and his wife Reyhan visited  DoraMac while Randal was in China.  We were invited to visit them at their home in Amutalan and this past Tuesday we did.  Selahattin picked us u…

Turkish Night Belly Dancer

Merhaba
    Turkish Night  Part 2   Belly Dancer and Irina
The belly dancer performed and then chose folks to compete in a belly dancing contest.  Our Irina took part and won the hearts of the audience. 
Ru

Ho…

Soḡanli Part 2

Merhaba,
   We’re off to Ankara Saturday so I really need to finish writing up our trip to Cappadocia.  Here is part 2 of our visit to Soḡanli,
Ru
Soḡanli Part 2

We crossed the Soḡanli River and hiked to the Church with the …

Time for lunch on the mystery tour

Merhaba,
This is the final email of our mystery day.  Notice there hasn’t been much food so far?  Now it’s time for food.
Ru
Yediburunlar Lighthouse   http://www.yediburunlarlighthouse.com/
Our final stop of the day was for lunc…

Soğanlı Valley

Merhaba,
    This is part one of our visit to Soğanlı Valley.  I’ve read blogs offering different explanations for the meaning of Soğanlı.  One says it mean onions (it does) which was then supposed to have caused a sultan…

Birthday Celebrations, ancient ruins, and new art exhibit

Merhaba,
Last Night and This Morning …….
Monday Night
Last night was the April 1st “finger foods pot luck” at Sailor’s Point.  We were there to welcome newcomers arriving for the sailing season, say good-bye to folks leaving for the sail…

Breaking News

Hong Kong SAR, 1 April 2013 (Continued…)