Author Archives: tbeartravels

Day 6  WEDNESDAY 3RD OCTOBER. Took off early on my own this morning to take some sunrise photographs.  Later we visited the Temple of the Gods then drove to Pachia Ammos, a beach on the southern side of the island. … Continue reading →

DAY 5  TUESDAY 2ND OCTOBER.   Today we drove to Cape Kipos, the most accessible easterly point on Samothraki. The road runs parallel to the shoreline but sufficiently elevated to give some dramatic views up and down the coast.  One … Continue reading →

LEG 6 GREECE  DAY 1 FRIDAY 28TH SEPTEMBER. Alexandroupoli to Samothraki, an island in the northern Aegean Sea. In the last post for Turkey I omitted to include the map showing the route from Istanbul to Alexandropoli so to keep … Continue reading →

END LEG 5 TURKEY AND START LEG 6 GREECE. DAY 10 MORNING OF THURSDAY 27TH SEPTEMBER 2012 ISTANBUL TO TURKISH/GREEK BORDER.  This morning we caught a taxi to the big bus station, which is how the locals refer to it.  … Continue reading →

DAY 8 TUESDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER  2012  This morning we had an important task to complete.  I wanted to track down the location of the Book Bazaar because I was told there was a shop that sold vintage postcards which I … Continue reading →

DAY 6 SUNDAY 23RD SEPTEMBER 2012 Karakoy  A beautiful day today so we decided to go to the waterfront in the area of Karakoy near the Galata Bridge. The stairway was a very steep  down to the waterfront and on … Continue reading →

DAY 5     SATURDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER 2012 Old Istanbul  This visit to Istanbul is my fifth and Bev’s fourth so we have visited most of the iconic attractions like the Blue Mosque, Topkapi, the Grand Bazaar and the Galata Tower but … Continue reading →

DAY 4 FRIDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER 2012  Rainy morning in Istanbul.  Even though it was raining we took to the streets and walked down to the area of Besitkas on the edge of the Bosphorus. On the way down the hill … Continue reading →

DAY 3    THURSDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER 2012 Industrial Museum    Galata         Pera  Today Ferruh took us to the Rahmi M. Koc Museum.   The museum is devoted to the history of transportation, industry and communication and from my understanding it is privately owned … Continue reading →

DAY 1     TUESDAY 18TH SEPTEMBER 2012. ZURICH AND ISTANBUL The flight from Bangkok to Istanbul was via Zurich, Switzerland. We arrived Zurich around 6-00 am and had two hours to wait before another Swissair flight and fortunately, this time, the … Continue reading →