Welcome Aboard Common Sense

We arrived at the dockside of Khalkis and were assisted in going alongside by Geoff, a Frenchman who has spent 30 years living in Wales(th...

    We wandered into the start of the Evia channel on a pleasant enough day, with the sun shining on the water and the wind blowing gent...

The return from Kars to Canakkale wa s a very long trip. First the sleeper train to Ankara, through mountains and fertile farmlands, then...

  The Istanbul to Ankara high speed train is up and running at last.   For the past two years, you had to get a bus from Istanbul to Es...

Ankara is not a city to fall in love with at first sight. Our first sight was a long, hot, dusty, hilly trudge through streets full of lit...

We arrived in Eskisehir very late at night. Our bus was late getting into the massive Otogar at Bayrampasa, where we had been waiting sin...