Tag Archives: Ankara
A-Z April Challenge – Ankara
My theme for this year’s challenge is places from around the world that I have visited on my travels. Each place has a story attached too that I hope you will find amusing. I start with the capital of Turkey, a place that I have visited twice and had a pretty stressful time on both […]
Angst in Ankara Station Part II
Regular readers of this blog will recall a book extract that I published a couple of days ago about our train journey across Turkey to Syria in 2009. On that trip my travel buddy Hamish was (thankfully only temporarily) separated from his passport for a while at Ankara Station, leading to all sorts of palpitations. In 2014 […]
Angst In Ankara Station Part I – Extract From My Book
The story starts as we were travelling to Syria from Istanbul in May 2009……. Calm Before The Storm We had a 4 hour stopover in the Turkish capital so set off to explore. First we needed coins for the lockers, but were one short. Luckily an upright English teacher called Neil came to our rescue. […]
2014 Gone, 2015 Beckons…..
2014 The year started slowly travel wise, with my efforts and finances channeled into arranging my 49th Birthday Party at Exeter City FC and visiting Wembley to watch my Manchester City lift the Capital One Cup. City were to give me my first travel experience of the year however, when I took Mrs. Wilbur to […]
