At first Antalya looked like many of the larger cities in Turkey, row after row of off-white or peach apart­ment build­ings all mod­elled after the same design. But once we started walking around, the beauty of the city was appar­ent. The city is located on the Mediterranean ocean. It’s natural for­ti­fic­a­tions resemble those of Dieppe in France. The [...]

First of all, I want to reas­sure every­one that we were well away from the zone of last night’s earth­quake. We didn’t feel so much as a tremor, although when I stomp up the steps of our rickety wooden tree­house after the types of huge and deli­cious dinners we get here, it can feel like [...]