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Donkeys are everywhere in Turkey. You just have to love them. They are usually friendly, and they’re all smart. This one was leading a small group to the well for their afternoon drink with no owner. I’m sure she has been doing it her whole life. The snow just made it a more [...] Continue reading Happiness is a Pregnant Donkey 
Our weekend in Bursa would not have been complete if we had not tried the dish that was made famous there, Iskender Kebab. Everyone has heard of Döner Kebab, juicy tidbits of meat layered on a vertical spit. Typically in Turkey, your choices are et (beef) or tavuk (chicken), sometimes the “et” could be [...] Continue reading Iskender 
Now see….if I could just draw or paint or even have one teensy bit of art talent in my chubby fingers, I wouldn’t have to use this effect. Whaddaya think? 
I visited Bursa, a smallish city on the western coast of Turkey. I had been there a number of years ago and remembered it as a dusty littlecity with not a whole lot of charm, so needless to say I haven’t been clamouring to get there before now. Oh, how things have changed. The [...] Continue reading Bursa – The City of Relaxation 
One cold, cold June morning, we climbed up Mt. Nemrut to visit the famous heads. I wrote a full on post about it here. Have you been to Nemrut? What was your experience? For me, it fits into the “once in a lifetime” category. [...] Continue reading World Heritage Site – Nemrut Dağı As most of you have heard, there have been two devestating earthquakes in the Eastern Turkish city of Van. Unfortunately for these folks, the second earthquake was followed up with days of intense snow and cold. Already many agencies have been collecting blankets, clothes, food stuffs, etc. to help and I’m sure there will be more [...] Continue reading Ode to Mr. Bayram and His Van Hotel 
Bulgar is man’s oldest recorded use of wheat. Bulgur is made by soaking and cooking the whole wheat kernel, drying it and then removing part of the bran and cracking the remaining kernel into small pieces. Its uses are numerous from salads to soup, from breads to desserts. It is a nutritious extender and thickener [...] Continue reading Bulgar for Breakfast and Beyond! 
Everywhere you go in Turkey, you will see the signs of people harvesting and drying their food. Peppers especially are ubiquitous! A Turkish staple, they put peppers inside or beside almost every dish. Most of the dried peppers will go into making pepper paste or kırmızı biber salçası. It is delicious and like I said [...] Continue reading Food – Turkish Red Peppers 
This young woman, presumably posing with family members, has come to the Sultan Camii to receive a blessing for her nuptials. Istanbul bridges two continents. It’s a city that very much lives on the water. We try to never vist the city without taking a ferry, because they go all over the place and [...] Continue reading Eyüp – A Cultural Glimpse 
A few weekends ago, we drove the 600 and some odd miles to the middle of Turkey to a place called Divrigi. A World Heritage Site for the hospital complex and the mosque, it was a site not too many people have visited but well worth the mileage. The exterior of the building [...] Continue reading HDR – Divrigi |
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