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Istanbul

By Christopher Richardson Posted on 10th July 2014 Posted in Travel Writing Tagged with Istanbul, Travel, Turkey

Any­body who knows me well will know if there’s one thing I don’t under­stand above all else, it’s sport. Except, of course, for crick­et, which isn’t actu­al­ly a sport, is it? More of a real­ly big board game. And so …

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Cappadocia

By Christopher Richardson Posted on 8th July 2014 Posted in Travel Writing Tagged with Cappadocia, Travel, Turkey

The night bus to Cap­pado­cia was well enough, but we should have caught a rock­et ship. Cap­pado­cia is home to one of the most incred­i­ble land­scapes I have ever seen … almost as if God called up Dali, Gau­di and Giger …

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Fethiye & Olympos

By Christopher Richardson Posted on 6th July 2014 Posted in Travel Writing Tagged with Fethiye, Olympos, Travel, Turkey

After anoth­er enter­tain­ing­ly per­fumed bus ride, we arrived in the port town of Fethiye to begin one of the most shame­ful­ly self-indul­­gent weeks of my already self-indul­­gent life. For it was here that we board­ed a yacht for a 4 …

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Samos / Ephesus / Pamukkale

By Christopher Richardson Posted on 5th June 2014 Posted in Travel Writing Tagged with Ephesus, Pamukkale, Samos, Travel, Turkey

Samos was the final step­ping stone into Turkey, our after­noon there mem­o­rable only for time spent with Spy­ros, our malev­o­lent taxi dri­ver, whose idea of safe­ty was to fin­ger his beads wher­ev­er con­ven­tion­al wis­dom might have sug­gest­ed brakes. It was …

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