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Amasya Preview..Day 3 Ankara trip

Merhaba
  Another day, another couple of hundred photos!  We had a lovely day and our group may even make the local news as it is Tourism Week in Amasya and we were in the right place at the right time.
  I am rereading  Turkish Ref…

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 …

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…

Easter Barbeque

Merhaba,
Time out from the Cappadocia trip to share photos from yesterday afternoon’s Easter Barbeque.  And to say GO SOX!!!!!! It is the first day of Baseball Season.  In all of Turkey I might be the only one who cares.  At the barbeque yesterday…

Kapadokya Day 1 Morning

Merhaba,
   So I’m going through my photos trying to write up these emails wondering…where the hell were we that morning?  Afternoon?  Next day?  I’m not 100% sure where we were at each stop.  I had read some of my C…