Category Archives: Traveling

Road trip to İzmir (and the İzmir synagogue tour)

Posted on December 15, 2024 by Bryan Keith

where we visit the Roman sites of Herakleia Salbake, Nysa, Kızılçullu Su Kemerleri, Smyrna; Byzantine ruins at Kadifekale; Ottoman mosques; and İzmir’s historic synagogues Ferda and I met up with Gülizar and Ali in İzmir this spring for our Likya … Continue reading →

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A Rhodes history tour

Posted on December 5, 2024 by Bryan Keith

Rhodes — our 6th and final island of this month-long tour in Greece. Rhodes was the only island that I had visited before. Ferda and I arrived by ferry from Heraklion and met Ferda’s parents who arrived on the ferry … Continue reading →

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Auto-touring Konya: Fasıllar, Kilistra, Çatalhöyük, and the provincial capital (merkez)

Posted on October 26, 2024 by Bryan Keith

To get to the start of our Zengibar Yolu walk Ahmet, Ferda, and I drove from Antalya to Konya. A number of things seemed familiar to me. We drove the new Derebucak road which I had bicycled before it was … Continue reading →

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A short layover in Shanghai

Posted on September 16, 2024 by Bryan Keith

When I was complaining about the high cost of flight tickets from Cebu back to Turkey, Alex, a young student from Qingdao (he’s now studying in PEI), asked me if I had looked at China Eastern Airlines. He was thinking … Continue reading →

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A bit of Honshu: Hiroshima, Kurashiki, Tokyo

Posted on April 8, 2024 by Bryan Keith

On this bus, train, and boat trip from Kyoto to Tokyo (oh so different from my bicycle tour from Tokyo to Kyoto many years ago!), we took Japan’s famous shinkansen twice. Even though 12 countries now have high speed rail … Continue reading →

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