Tag: March 2010

Antalya Museum and our intro to CouchSurfing

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 city [...]

Cappadocia is Turkey’s version of Canada’s badlands without the dinosaur bones

Here are some older photos from the land­scape of central Turkey in the area known as Cappadocia. I’m also just fin­ish­ing a post about Lanciano for you before I con­vince Chris and my girl friend to retire to the apart­ment to watch more of the “Sopranos”.

Animals and Nature of Olympos, Turkey

Hi guys! Just to reas­sure you in regards to our April Fool’s joke (hee,hee) we are actu­ally safe and sound in Italy. We are hanging out in my old stomp­ing ground of Lanciano where I went to high school at the Canadian College of Italy (CCI). Chris and I are both working on photos to [...]

The 50-millimeter Canon lens bounced down the Ihlara Valley

Coming out of the mosque I put my purse down to free my hands and aid in my safe journey back down the awkward, eroded carved steps. Suddenly the world was in slow motion as I heard my bag shift. Even though the top was sealed with Velcro, the only two objects similar in size [...]

Some snap shots