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Kalkan, Turkey If you ever wondered what a British colony would look like in the 21st century, wonder no more. The rationale for this new British Invasion enabled by budget airlines? Sun. Glorious, Mediterranean sun. The kind that scorches pasty anglo-saxon hides in mere minutes, especially when one sunbathes without sunscreen (as British Kalkanites seem prone to do judging [...] Escape the heat and the crowds: Escape only the crowds:
A few months ago, I purchased a Turkish language learning programme to, not surprisingly, learn some Turkish. Living with a wonderful Turkish woman who is soon to be my wife, it was high time to get a better grasp of what exactly she was saying about me to her [...] Somewhere under Istanbul, I’m told there are hills. I can believe that, although they are hard to discern from the heaving, pulsating city that has been constructed on top of them. The city’s rolling neighbourhoods seems to owe less to geology and more to heaps of apartment buildings that look at first glance [...] Istanbul is not a city designed for the automobile, to say the least. With its dense, old urban fabric and hilly geography, you could almost imagine the first settlers musing to themselves, “gee, this place is going to be a real scene after the invention of the combustion engine”. And what a scene it has [...] Anamur Istanbul Looking out the window of my Turkish Airlines flight as it landed at Ataturk International, I distinctly remember three thoughts crossing my mind: 1) wow, there are a lot of ships in the Sea of Marmara, 2) wow, there are a lot of mosque minarets rising out of the hyper-dense urban settlements and 3) there [...] Turkey is not the sort of place you would ever accuse of lacking history. And unlike certain other countries I won’t mention by name, it thankfully does not seem to have a penchant for bulldozing its historical built heritage and cultural relics. Nope, Turkey is a country where history is all around you. Given its geographical [...] Anyone who has traveled with me is well aware that I take a lot of pictures. Of everything. Not one to go home with a bunch of bad pictures of monuments with me in front of them, I prefer to document everyday urban scenes of street bustle, built landscapes and fun traffic chaos. I can [...] |
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