Fellow photography Jill and I took a taxi from the hotel to the airport together, since we had the same flight to London. We got on the taxi, mad…

Euro Plaza Hotel, on a big street bordering the never-never land our local guide told us strongly not to venture into! That's the north western direc…

it's an even longer day today with more than 800km to be covered between Pamukkale and Cappadocia! We boarded the bus before 7am!One of the stops we …

we arrived in the area of Cappadocia just before sunset, and went straight to the formation of 3 rocks which formed a family group. It's one of the s…

Two hours later near sunset, we arrived at Pamukkale and stayed until after sunset. I didn't really have time to visit the ruins there called Hierapo…

Today was a long drive day to go from Kudasasi to Pamukkale today. On the way, we made a short stop at a small village and photographed the locals. I…

We had an early morning flight to Izmir. We had a bus for the next few days. First we drove to the place where the House of Virgin Mary was found. Th…

The hotel is located on a hillside with good view of the harbor, however, there were nothing interesting to walk to near the hotel. The hotel has a n…

Since I was now on a photography workshop, we had arranged to photograph sunrise at the top of a hotel (Hotel Acadia) near the Blue Mosque, where w…

This boutique hotel was a little hard to find, but it's right at the center of the old city, only a block from the Hippodrome and the Blue Mosque! Yo…

Walked to the National Museum in the morning. Just in front of the museum, this strange looking couple approached m…

It would have been better if I was writing this as a general advice instead of from personal experience, normally personal experience is best! Well, …

Breakfast was included at the hotel, and the selection very good. The restaurant is bright and colorful and simple …

I stayed at the Fresh Hotel for 3 nights while in Athens. It has a pretty convenient location not far from the subway station at Omonia Square. Howev…

I drove the car back to the airport easily enough, having scouted out the way from the few other times we had to be bussed there. It was an easy 20 m…

After our buffet breakfast, we checked out of the hotel and drove into city traffic to find the Green Tomb and the Green Mosque, which were right…

On the way back into Istanbul, we had meant to cross the Bosphorus Bridge, but instead got on the wrong road and ended up at the ferry dock at Harem.…

We drove right into the city of Bursa. Luckily Kevin spotted the hotel we were staying at, otherwise I wonder if we would be able to find it by stree…

Truva in Turkish, the area known as Hisarlik was the site of the mythical and historical city of Troy described by Homer. Troy had been excavated du…

Our tour group provided transportation to the airport for us, leaving the hotel at 7:30am. We had a rental car rese…

We had a day at sea, the sea was a little rough, and many people felt seasick, including me at the end of day. Dinner was not going to work so I we…

founded by Catherine the Great in 1794 to be the St Petersburg of the south

church service in an Othodox cathedral, and old mosque, old casino, archeological museum, beach at Mamaia and lunch …

As morning arrived we were approaching Nessebur in Bulgaria. It was a small harbor at the city of Nessebur. The tow…

In the morning, we visited the Church of St Saviour in Chora, where some of the best Byzantine mosaics exist in Ist…

We had an early start because 5 cruise ships had docked along the piers overnight and that meant thousands of touri…

Today we started with a short drive to the shore of the Bosphorus, on the European side near the hotel was the site…

We had an early start, arriving at the Zurich airport about 9am, which gave us more then enough time for our 10:45 flight …

The Ceylan Intercontinental Hotel as Taksim Square was our home away from home in Istanbul, we stayed there 3 times for a total of 5 nights. We had r…

After waking up at 4:30am from jet lag, I finally went back to sleep after maybe an hour, but woke up eventually about 8:30am. Kevin had already gott…

We arrived in Zurich just before 3pm, and waited for our luggage. Luckily nothing was lost and we breathed a sigh of relief and went to the car ren…

A restaurant at a spectacular location, the Rheinfall - a waterfall on the Rhine. The waterfall is right outside the windows of the restaurant, so yo…

Terminal 5 at London Heathrow airport was the newest terminal which went into service this year. There were some horror stories about big luggage fia…

Board a flight in SFO in the afternoon. We checked in online just before leaving home, which was a good thing, because at the airport, the line for…