Category Turkey

Haydarpasa Station, Istanbul

Sunday Photo – Toros Mountains, Turkey

A Journey To Syria – Part One

Perhaps my favourite ever train journey happened in 2009 as we made the trip from Istanbul to Aleppo in Syria. This is an account of our journey east, starting with half a day in the great Turkish city that straddles two continents……. Once more we found ourselves in Istanbul. We had booked onward trains in […]

Wordless Wednesday – Ayasofya Müzesi, Istanbul

My Top Five Overseas Train Pleasures

My Top 15 Travel Pleasures – 3 to 1

3. Staying In An Apartment Apart from when on a school exchange visit to Brittany in 1980, up until 1998 I had only ever stayed in a youth hostel or hotel or slept on a train whilst abroad. This changed in the summer of ’98 whilst on a work trip to Athens. To cut costs […]