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@WilcovanHerpen Huge adventure trying to get there & back under own steam when snow was deep on ground. Suppose it didn’t happen this year.

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Thoughts reverent and irreverent from the road in Turkey

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THE LOST TOURISTS OF KIYIKIZLACIK

by Pat Yale in bloggingaboutturkey

Oct

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At the entrance to Kıyıkızlacık, near Milas, a man has set up a kokoreç stand to grill lamb entrails for passers-by. It strikes me as a strange thing to be cooking in temperatures of over 100 degrees but no doubt he knows his potential clientele. In any case, he’s a...

THE GOATHERD OF BEÇİN

by Pat Yale in bloggingaboutturkey

Sep

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{jcomments on} I had such fond memories of Beçin, near Milas, but of course since my last visit the tidy-uppers had been at work, restoring the fine 14th-century mosque so that it now looked brand new. That was bad enough. What was worse and what always makes my blood boil was...

TURKEY'S EMPTY VILLAGES

by Pat Yale in bloggingaboutturkey

Aug

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At Alabanda, near Çine, I bump into a student from Aydın University. He’s clad in what seems to be the international national-park staff uniform of green sweatshirt and khaki Bermudas and we fall into conversation in front of a lovely old house, one of the few left in the village,...

THE GLORIOUS SILENCE OF SIDYMA

by Pat Yale in bloggingaboutturkey

Aug

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The silence of the night in Sidyma is magical. A cow bellows, a chicken crows, but there’s not the slightest sound of obtrusive modernity. I’ve come up here to visit Brea, a Canadian woman who has set up a goat farm amidst the ruins of ancient Lycia and I’m overwhelmed...

KÜTAHYA'S FORGOTTEN PASHA

by Pat Yale in bloggingaboutturkey

Aug

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I don’t know how many times I must have wandered past the Yeşil Cami in Kütahya without ever thinking to take a look inside, but today something makes me push open the door - - and what a revelation it is. Inside, as is normal during Ramazan, a Koran class...