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From Sofia, we went to Ohrid, stopping in Skopje, the birthplace of Mother Teresa and where Alexander the Great is revered—to this day. The road to Skopje The…
From Gallipoli, we crossed the border into Bulgaria. Going across the border was hell. It took hours as we jostled with the traffic. Our new tour guide, Gert…
As we went to take our places on the coach after our last night at Cannakale, Achmet came to welcome us with some excellent news. The authorities had…
In the morning, we set out for a pilgrimage to Gallipoli—a sacred site to our group of 35 Australians on the coach. We drove from Canakkale, where we…
Before visiting the Pergamon site we went to a place that manufactures the best leather jackets in all of Turkiye and—according to the reps that showed us the…
We thought we’d be cool as cucumbers spending a leisurely day at Kusadasi. Little did we know it was going to be as hot as Hades and humid…
Travelled to Kusidasi and embarked on a tour of the Turkish village of Sirince. The area has a history dating back to the Hellenistic period (323–31 BC). Pottery…
Bursa We travelled to Bursa in Anatolia at the foot of Mount Uludag, the first capital of the Ottoman Empire. Here, we visited some more mosques: the Green…
Ahmet, our Turkish tour leader, took us to see the old Istanbul City. We visited the Hippodrome, the Sultan Ahmet Imperial Mosque (also known as the Blue Mosque),…
Bengamin Grin most likely[1] my Jewish great-grandfather, came from Lithuania before 1886, the year his son, my grandfather Cecil Green was born in Winburg, on the farm Koffiefontein….