Author: Chris
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Turkish Food – Part 2: Lunch!
If you haven’t yet, you should see part one of this in-depth investigative report. But enough chit chat, it’s lunch time! Anyway, it actually is lunch time, and as we are back in Istanbul for about 24 hours before heading off to Rome, we’d better take advantage of the food while we can… Next updates…
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Kapadokya, some bombshells, and a whole lotta digression
Hey everybody! Laura’s got a write-up coming about our last week or two. Me? I’ve got some photos to share. But first a few bombshells and a note on spelling. Bombshell number 1: We will be getting our visas to visit Iran within the next two days, although it’ll be a month or more before…
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OutThereSomewhere.ca – CIRA Contest Video!
We know we’ve been lax on the updates, but we hope seeing this video will explain our absence. We decided at the last minute to make a video promoting our site for a CIRA contest. The grand prize is a new Macbook Pro laptop. If you’ve seen my beat-up old duct-taped computer, you’d agree we…
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Dilek National Park: a hike gone wrong, but with good friends to share the misery
It was a chance encounter. We had met Petrit and Gloria only the morning prior, as we ate breakfast in Selcuk and prepared to go our separate ways. They told us about their trip, and we learned that theirs was remarkably similar in both scope and itinerary to our own. We had each been in…
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Earthquake Update and a Couchsurfer’s Plea
First of all, I want to reassure everyone that we were well away from the zone of last night’s earthquake. We didn’t feel so much as a tremor, although when I stomp up the steps of our rickety wooden treehouse after the types of huge and delicious dinners we get here, it can feel like…
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Turkish Food – Part 1: Breakfast
I’ve decided to break up the Turkish Food rundown into at least three feasts for your eyes. I may also do one on snacks and deserts, but we’ll have to get snacking. Anyway, it’s time for breakfast… It’s normal at most hotels, pensions, and hostels to have breakfast included in the room price. Occasionally, we’ve…
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One Day in Turkey (video!)
Hey guys, Welcome to our film debut! The footage is all from one day in and around Fethiye, on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. Please feel free to let the Oscar Committee know what you think. We rented a scooter in Fethiye for three days. Cost us 60 Turkish Lira total (about $45 CDN), plus…
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Another several hundred kilometers through Turkey… with pictures!
While Laura has been blogging her socks off, I haven’t gotten around to putting much up in a while. So here goes: a photo update on where we are and what we’ve been up to. Broadly speaking, we are making our way down the Aegean coast of Turkey. We ducked inland at places like Bergama…
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Quick Update from Dikili
Hi Mom! Yes, we are indeed still alive and safe. This morning we will be catching a Turkish minibus, or dolmus (pronounced dol-mush), to a place called Bergama, near the ancient site of Pergamon. There are some impressive archaeological remains there we’re looking forward to. We left Istanbul a few days ago and have already…
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“The Truth” about Istanbul
Our friend Colin has been pestering us to show “the truth” of the places we visit, rather than the stuff you can find in “any art history text book.” He wants to see the gutters, poverty, deprivations of every kind. Mostly that’s just his own twisted personality, but it presents some problems. Turkey is simply…
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Aya Sofia
UPDATE: (a couple more photos added) Aya Sofia was built about 1500 years ago by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian, and served as the most important church in Christendom for about 900 years before being converted into a mosque by the Ottomans in 1453. Even after all this time it is still impressive. Suffice it to…
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Some complementary photos
After reading Laura’s account of our first day in London, I thought I’d put up a few of my favourite shots from the day to complement her narrative.