Goreme Travel Blogs

My journey through history...Turkey from May 22 - June 9, 2008, where a piece of my heart and soul will always remain.. (and a piece of my hair)

We took a 10 hour overnight bus ride from Pamukkale to Goreme. Dave and I had wanted to go to Cappadocia for most of the trip, but the weather reports for the first two weeks we were in Turkey looked grim: -18 degrees C and snow. Being from Southern California, it was like reading a weather report …

Last church, amazing Love Valley - blue sky - stuck at top - scrambled down walk to uchisar in heavy snow castle walk back, pide backgammon

So here I am.  The final page torn from the calendar of the first year of my life on The Road.  Day number 365.  And the counter keeps running.  386 days old at the time of writing.  How old will I be in Travel Age I wonder when it all comes to an end?  But not the day…

I never made it out to a Turkish night nor did I go on the organized bus tour I had arranged to take.  Plans change when you travel and being flexible has its rewards.  As it was fortune smiled upon me and I met a Polish fella with a bit of a Scottish accent who is traveling on his motorc…

A tour of Turkey: one of my best travel with hundreds of pictures!

The minivan dropped us off at Köse Pansion near the village centre of Göreme. A great hostel, it had a little swimming pool, delicious food, friendly owners and plenty of services.  The outside terrace is great in the evening and in the morning you can rely on Spotty the dog a…

Last night Nina and I went to the Nazar Börek restaurant for the last time and we decided to go crazy and ordered three desserts: baklava with ice cream, apple and cinnamon börek (basically it's an apple pie in phyllo pastry), and another dessert made with grape syrup. After our dessert feast we …

La ajetreada noche en bus nos había dejado un poco "tocados", pero no lo suficiente para disfrutar de un gran día en La Capadocia. La temperatura era perfecta y nos iba a permitir no sufrir los estragos del calor en otro día largo e intenso a la vez. La Capadocia se formó hace 3 millones de a…

We spent the last two days tourıng around Cappadocıa. It ıs so beautıful. Sometımes you can not belıeve how amazıng the vıews are... I have to pınch myself! Today we dıd what may have been my favorıte thıng. We just went and explored ın the hılls and scrambled and clımbed ın out of …

Is there any good reason for getting out of bed at 5am?    Well, Michelle’s willingness to get out of bed that early is a pretty good indication of how much we were looking forward to Hot Air Ballooning here in Cappadocia.    Weather conditions were near perfect for ball…

We booked a hot-air balloon ride with Goreme balloons for 120€/person. The bus came to our cave hotel to pick us at 5.30am, and took us nearby to the launch area. Hot coffee and tea were provided, because it's cold that early in the morning. Wear a sweater! There was a little fire there to heat y…

Incredible country, exciting, thousands of contrasts

Travelling from Cairo to Venice, through Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Croatia and Italy.

An amazing 7-week vacation to multiple destinations: London, Italy, Greece, Turkey. The trip of a lifetime, and I already can't wait to go back!