What an intense week this has been! I will mention two reasons why. 1 – The US presidential elections It was pitch dark at 5:30 on Wednesday morning as I scrambled out of my bunk and logged on to CNN (Turkey is 7 hours ahead of EST). For the next three hours I followed, in …
This week I took my long anticipated trip to south-eastern Turkey. Because Syria is not an option for the EMU Middle East cross-cultural study program this spring, we decided to bring the EMU students to the area of Turkey just north of the Syrian border. I was there to check out the current situation on …
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#5 If a tourist visits Turkey and includes an archeological site it most likely will be Ephesus, the fabulous ruins of an incredibly wealthy and powerful city familiar to anyone with some biblical knowledge. Ephesus is so popular that there are actual foot-traffic jams on the main street during the summer. The ports of ancient …
#4 I promised to share why the section of coastline in the area I am in between Antalya to the northeast and Bodrum to the west, is famous. Besides being the most beautiful coastline of Turkey, there are two other reasons for its fame: shipwrecks and pirates. These represent two distinct hazards Paul faced when …
Volos is beautiful. Janet and I have come to realize that, if you need to fix up a boat, wait on Greek and American paperwork, and prepare for a Mediterranean voyage, this is probably the best place you could possibly be. Volos is due north of Athens about 300 kilometers. A small city of 112,000, …