Beyazit’s answer to Bedlam
Beyazit II was one of the more enlightened of the Ottoman sultans. I greatly enjoyed strolling around the old capital of Edirne, close to the Bulgarian border, this summer. His […]
Tag Archives: Turkey
Side by Side by Apollo
Side has become a victim of its own popularity. You reach it by driving down a 3km asphalt road off the main Antalya-Alanya coast road on Turkey’s south coast, heading […]
The most delicious church in the world
The former Greek Orthodox church of St Saviour in Chora, now the Kariye Museum, in Istanbul, always makes me think of a chocolate gateau for some reason. Every time I […]
Imperial Phaselis
I paid a brief visit to Phaselis during a tour along the Mediterranean coast of Turkey a few years back, from Alanya to Kalkan, where an old Turkish friend from […]
Guns ‘n’ roses at Haydarpasha Station
All the trains to everywhere on the Anatolian side of Turkey depart from this impressive Istanbul railway station, which was completed in 1908. It’s redolent of old world charm, Strangers […]
Gulf of Edremit
I was delighted to see the Gulf of Edremit highlighted in the movie Season of the Witch the other night. The setting bore no resemblance to the actual place I’d […]
Termessos – a mountain idyll
Termessos is about the most spectacular ancient city in Turkey that I’ve been to. Not only does it have a remote and romantic mountain setting with some of the finest […]
Cosmopolitan Antioch
This is a view from my hotel window in Antakya, ancient Antioch of SS Paul and Peter fame. The word ‘Christian’ was first used here apparently and St Peter’s Grotto […]
Antalya Archaeological Museum
This museum used to be a bit of a dump, one of those monolithic Turkish state-controlled institutions where none of the exhibit labels were written in English, in fact many […]
A romantic Turkish castle
Alara Castle is just a few miles along the coast road from Alanya on the Pamphylian coast of Mediterranean Turkey, then inland a bit. The roads become dirst tracks pretty […]
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