Tag: Absolute Turkey

Reflecting on Turkey & Croatia – Gimpy!

ByTravelling Minion December 24, 2018 0 Comments
Last but not least is Gimpy wrapping up with her thoughts on our Turkey and Croatia Trip.  I sent her a list of questions so she could share with us! If you're interested in reading Vino's thoughts click here. For my wrap up, click here. And if you want to read through the whole trip from beginning to end, please click here. My top 3 highlights of the trip Highlight #1: Hot air balloon ride!...

Wrapping up Turkey and Croatia

ByTravelling Minion November 30, 2018 2 Comments
With my Turkey and Croatia trip fully blogged now, its time to think back and appreciate the journey! Thank you for coming along with me to this very interesting part of the world and I hope you enjoyed reading as much as I enjoyed writing about it! I had the idea of doing separate wrap ups for Turkey and Croatia. But I already asked Gimpy and Vino to do it for both, so it wasn't that fair if I...

Hot Air Balloons…FINALLY

ByTravelling Minion November 8, 2018 3 Comments
Hot Air Balloon Redemption With our GAdventures tour through Turkey over, we still had one big regret: We didn't hot air balloon in Cappadocia. If you've been following the trip, you'll know that we had two opportunities to fly when we were in Goreme. Unfortunately, both were cancelled due to weather and we were hugely disappointed. Ballooning in this region was at the very top of our list for...

Gallipoli & Our last day with G Adventures

ByTravelling Minion November 4, 2018 0 Comments
Crossing the Dardanelles to Gallipoli We had to get an early start since we had a ferry to catch across the Dardanelles to Gallipoli. While the sun had already risen by the time the ferry departed, the view of both sides of the water was still incredible. ANZAC Landings Upon arriving on the other side, we drove to our first stop on the Peninsula, the first ANZAC landing site. I first heard of the...

Ayvalik

ByTravelling Minion November 1, 2018 2 Comments
Ayvalik The name of the game today would be to chill and we would be doing that in Ayvalik. After a quick breakfast in our Selcuk hotel, we got back on our bus for the drive to Ayvalik. It was an uneventful drive and after a few hours we entered Ayvalik. Our bus dropped us off a few blocks from where we would stay for the evening. Because of the way the streets are structured, it would have been...