May 10, 2013

Turkish Food Is Sexy

Turkish food has popped up on the blog a couple of times before, with the likes of baklava and Ayvalik toast taking centre stage among delectable bites from the country that straddles two continents.    This week, Maryanne, the brains between Ephemera and Demetrius, Wok With Me Baby and Awesome Mops of China… (phew, she’s a busy lady!) gives us the low-down on what she considers to be the sexiest Turkish food. And believe me, Turkish food is pretty

November 18, 2012

Four Fab Photos of Turkey

  In July 2010, I spent a month travelling around Turkey, which has a firm place in my heart as one of my favourite countries in the world. In fact, I’ll be heading back there on my round-the-world trip next year and, after another stint in Istanbul, be going along the country’s Black Sea coast, an area I didn’t visit last time.   Turkey is full of memories for me, from giggling with glee at willy-shaped rock formations… in Cappadocia,

September 12, 2012

Gaziantep, I’m Sorry But I Despise You

Not every city bowls you over with its beauty, seduces your stomach with its food or makes you forgive the morning after hangover. Some destinations just don’t have that wow factor, and I’ve come across a few in my travels (can Vilnius, Sunderland and Busan… step forward, please?) Few places have the power to truly offend me though. I can only think of two that I’ve thoroughly loathed. One is Waegwan, a small town close to Daegu in South

September 7, 2012

Ayvalik Toast

Turkish food contains all the right components to make people go misty-eyed. During my month in Turkey two years ago, I dined on fried mussel sandwiches, famous Turkish ice cream, creamy Iskender kebab, and bags of the most amazing sour cherries in Istanbul. I ate Gozleme in between exploring phallic shaped rocks in Cappadocia, with this post… taking me back to the delight my taste buds encountered in the sweltering July heat. Perhaps the nearest and dearest to my heart

August 12, 2012

My Top 3 Travel Memories

If you read a lot of travel blogs, you’re probably well aware that there’s currently a Blogger Relay going around, with the idea coming courtesy of the folks at Lowcostholidays.com. I was tagged by the fabulous Lola, so I guess it’s time for me to get running!I’m a part of #TeamBLUE, headed by Christina Hegele and I’m in good company with fantastic bloggers such as Leah Travels, The Planet D and Monkeys and Mountains, to …

April 30, 2012

Cappadocia: Land of the Cock Rocks

Hello ladies and gentlemen! How are you all doing?   If you’ve been following my blog for a fair while now, you may have noticed some posts about Turkey peppered in amongst my musings on my expat existence in South Korea and my recent-ish trips to Malaysia and central Europe, amongst other things.   Summer 2010 saw me travelling around Turkey for a month, and I’ve written about the country… a fair bit so far. However, I’ve yet to

April 11, 2012

An Interview with Breakaway Backpacker

  Hello folks! How’s it going? As you may have guessed from the title of this post, it’s interview time! Interviews aren’t a regular feature of my blog, but I’d like to try and include more of them – mainly to give an insight into the lives of people who are on the road and travelling, whilst I sit here envious in South Korea counting down the days until my adventures can begin in 2013. This is interview number three, …

April 4, 2012

My Seven Super-Duper Shots

Well folks, it’s taken me a while to jump on this latest blog craze but now I am taking part in Hostelbookers seven super shots – thankfully those lovely No Vacation Required… gentlefolk tagged me, otherwise I’d never have written this post. Also, I think nobody tagged me because I regularly talk about the crappy quality of my iPhone photos. You know, I’m not the idea person to be writing this post. Yet, despite all that, I still have a

March 9, 2012

Indiana Jones in Ephesus

  While I was updating a post about Ayvalik… that I posted long, long ago, I read something that I’d written. It was a promise to write about Ephesus. Well, it’s only sixteen months late, but here it is! Come to think of it, I have absolutely no idea why I didn’t write about it sooner but hey, better late than never, right? I’ve just realised that you may be reading this, thinking “what the hell is Ephesus”? Ephesus is

January 27, 2012

5 Ideas for Istanbul

Hello my wonderful readers! As you read this, I’ll hopefully be enjoying myself in Prague, and it’s hopefully not-too-freezing weather and it’s hopefully cheap, cheap beer – in moderation of course. Fear ye not, there shall be posts to come on that soon-ish, hangover(s?) not withstanding. Due to the general iciness of January (well, in the northern hemisphere at least), I’ve decided to write about somewhere a little bit warmer, and a place that’s very dear to my heart –…