With Zehra and Bedri
The sun determines our days. If it shines, we can easily endure the altitude, headwind and aching legs. But if it hides behind the clouds, our sweat mixes …
Tea and games
After two comfortable nights in a hostel in the tourist hotspot Göreme, we hang a quiet tent night in a winterproof café in the middle of the park. …
Cappadocia and around
Still a bit shaky on our feet, we set off in mid-November to drive through the incredible plain of Konya. We drive the 150 kilometers on a main …
Over the moon, in a Koran School and to the Dervishes
We say goodbye to Fatma Nur and Bilgen and drive to the moon for the time being. We tramp through a white shimmering hilly landscape and wonder if …
Straight through the middle of Turkey
The next two days we drive through a plain full of fruit plantations and meet proud farmers who each give us at least a few apples to take …
Istanbul
In Edincik everything revolves around the olives. In every street there are several tractors and all people seem somehow busy with the harvest or the processing of the …
Headwind to Istanbul
We are in Turkey. It already feels a bit insane. And adventurous and exciting and impressive and…wet and windy. We curve back out of Ipsala a little warmed …
Plan B becomes plan A
After unsuccessfully finding a ride to Turkey by boat, we have to go to plan B and take the ferry up to Kavala from Samos. From there we …
Samos
Our ferry research on the storm break day in Loutsa gave us a new exciting idea. For a long time we had the idea to reach Turkey via …
Gate 13 and some tail wind
Since the Preveza tunnel, the face of Greece has changed dramatically! Suddenly the tourist settlements have disappeared from the face of the earth and in their place are …