I was invited to Selçuk for the weekend and a sixty minute flight on Friday took me from Istanbul to Izmir down on Turkey's Aegean coast. From there a car ride to the small town of Selçuk where my ...
Trips and Other Interesting Bits and pieces
All About Aşure or Noah’s Pudding
Sooner or later the doorbell will ring or somebody will tap on your door. You open it and there will be your neighbour. This is especially true if you live in an apartment block, even more likely if ...
My Foodie Stroll Through Beyoğlu
Anyone for intestines? Sheep’s head? Then follow me! Quaint old streets, crumbling facades, and ancient courtyards on the one hand, colourful cafes, bars, and meyhanes or drinking places of all ...
New Year in an Aegean Village (3)
Camel Wrestling I have always been a sucker for camels so when neighbour Peter came back from Ayvacık market on Friday and said that he had seen seven of them, I was instantly interested. I had ...
New Year in an Aegean Village (2)
New Year's Day We couldn't stay inside and anyway a walk down to the old harbour of Assos we felt would do us good after the feast that we enjoyed at Biber Evi - literally Chilli ...
New Year in an Aegean Village (1)
The last day of 2010 was a glorious day but it didn't feel that way at 6.45 on Friday morning. There I was seated on the fast ferry which skims across the Marmara Sea to a place called ...
Beautiful Blogger Award
I am the very very happy recipient of a Beautiful Blogger Award for which I was nominated by my good friend Heike writer of the lovely blog Knitsisters which was also recently honoured. She has been ...
Two Festive Istanbul Teaparties
And indeed we were. This was yesterday when Nurhayat invited our old group of seven or eight ex-teachers from the English Department of the local high school round for tea. She had ...