Sitting above the northwest corner of Eğirdir Lake in the Isparta Province of Turkey lie the ruins of Antioch Of Pisidia. We were in Eğirdir to finally experience the beauty of the vast lake an...
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It was August, 2008 when the news hit. International news! A huge intact head and lower leg from a statue of Marcus Aurelius had been uncovered by archaeologists at the ancient city of Sagalassos...
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Things to do in Eğirdir and around? Wow, where to start… A road trip to explore some of Turkey’s Anatolian Lake District in the Burdur and Isparta Provinces was the destination for our last ...
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A late summer road trip around parts of Turkey’s Lake District. First stop, for a photographic driving break, was other-worldly Salda Gölü. Then it was time to move on to our base for the nex...
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If our previous road trip around Southwest Turkey was about reacquainting ourselves with some old favourites – the ruins of Ephesus, the Pamukkale travertines and Hierapolis – then our most...
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Defensive, is where we’re at with Ankara. Imagine if a city was a person with real thoughts and feelings; we think of cities like this all the time because they’re such complex beings. There�...
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So, what have we told you thus far about our (too) short time in Ankara last May? A quick recap: And that ciğer şiş is where we’ll continue our story. Because we were looking for the Museum ...
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Today is the anniversary of the death of founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. He passed away in Dolmabahçe Palace at 9:05 am on this day in 1938. Anıtkabir – The Mausoleum...
https://www.turkeysforlife.com/2013/11/anitkabir-ankara-ataturk-mausoleum.html
In a few weeks, we’ll have been writing this blog for four years…and it’s taken until now to write about a Turkish national favourite dish: Mantı. How’s that happened? That’s how life ...
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Turkish food of almost all varieties is much loved by us – it’s just that sometimes it tastes better because of the circumstances we find ourselves in (remember when we were rescued by köfte...
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