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Datça – A Paradise for Health Tourists

November 20, 2019by theromantictraveller Leave a comment

Favoured holiday destination of Turkey’s film stars, singers and assorted jet-set luvvies, Datça offers a glamorous destination for your next break in this richly varied country. It’s the Turkish equivalent […]

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Datca, Turkey

Van Man

January 8, 2019by theromantictraveller Leave a comment

Turkey is a magical land with something for everyone. If sprawling on a sun-baked beach with a cold drink in one hand and a Kindle in the other has lost […]

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Turkey, Van

Blood Rites in Telmessos

December 10, 2018by theromantictraveller 2 Comments

My new Sketchers, though deliciously comfortable with their memory foam insoles and advanced air flow system, were no match for the jagged rocks that led up to the tomb of […]

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Turkey

Tlos

October 23, 2018by theromantictraveller Leave a comment

The ruins of Tlos in Turkey’s Muḡla province are tremendously impressive. I followed the road signs for the village of Kemer from the Fethiye-Kaṣ highway and took a turnoff at […]

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Turkey

Gods, Men and Goats – Duzgun Baba

June 17, 2018by theromantictraveller Leave a comment

It looked as if a large meteorite had crashed into a herd of goats, whose disintegrating bodies had spattered it with blood and whose only recognisable remains were hundreds of […]

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Turkey

Ankara: A city of contrasts

September 25, 2017by theromantictraveller Leave a comment

Turkey’s capital is as different from Istanbul as you could imagine. Istanbul is like a decrepit dowager aunt, clad in a dress that might have been in fashion a few […]

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Ankara, Turkey

The past comes to life in Ephesus

September 23, 2017by theromantictraveller Leave a comment

Ephesus is one of the great ruined cities of the world, a truly breathtaking pile of marble that makes you wonder at the artistic aspirations, as well as the organisational […]

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Ephesus, Turkey

Evangelicals and pagan goddesses in Selcuk

September 20, 2017by theromantictraveller Leave a comment

With Selcuk (pronounced Seljuk) and Ephesus both within a twenty-minute drive of my hotel – the excellent Tusan Beach Resort in Kusadasi – this summer I was pretty much spoilt […]

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Selcuk, Turkey

On the tiles in Iznik

September 19, 2017by theromantictraveller Leave a comment

Located next to a large lake – Iznik Gol – and formerly a capital of the Byzantines, Iznik still marinades in memories of its glory days. Under the Ottomans, it […]

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Iznik, Turkey

Handmade Houses and Voivodes in Yenisehir

September 18, 2017by theromantictraveller Leave a comment

It’s always a bad idea to call anything the new one. ‘New’ castle is about a thousand years old now, and the one it presumably replaced shortly after the Norman […]

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Turkey, Yenisehir

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