We awake in Pamukkale; another busy tourist town. I’m not sure what the reason is for the heavy feather duvets in summer, it’s so hard to find a happy medium […]

It’s not often you get to go to a place from which the national beer takes its name; Efes (or Ephesus). It’s hard to imagine what a town called Stella […]

After catching the 8am ferry across the Dardanelles to Cannakkale, we played round with photos of the giant wooden horse used in the movie Troy which was sitting n the […]

We arrive into Eceabat, a small coastal town which serves as the main ferry hub to the Asian mainland, and find the Crowded house hostel. From the outset it seems […]

Day three was Monday which meant most museums were closed, so we jumped on the public ferry up the Bospherus to the Black Sea. It was an interesting trip which […]

Up early the next day to visit the Aya Sofya and Topkapi palace. We bought the museum card which allowed us into a good selection of museums around Istanbul and […]

After taking four modes of transport from the airport into the city, we arrived at our hostel in Sultanahmet hot and hungry!! We ventured out to find some of the […]