https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Tue, 29 Nov 2022 12:05:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://calderescapes.com/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-ce-site-icon-32x32.png https://calderescapes.com 32 32 https://calderescapes.com/posts/farewell-to-turkiye/ Mon, 31 Oct 2022 09:56:40 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=54073 October 31st, 2022 Happy Halloween! Monday morning we drove into Izmir, (third largest city in the country) where we wanted to see a couple of sites and maybe get the missing blood work done we couldn’t do in Kayseri. We had a large parking lot in mind that took a while to get to in […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/continuing-westward-in-turkiye/ Fri, 28 Oct 2022 13:06:07 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=54057 October 28th, 2022 We hit the road on the early side today as we had a more than 200 km / 125 mi to drive to get to Pamukkale today.  But first before leaving Fethiye, we stopped to see the Rock Tombs on the hills.  There is a museum but you can see them right […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/ruins-and-beaches-turkiye/ Thu, 20 Oct 2022 14:45:33 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=53526 October 20th, 2022 Thursday was a longish driving day to begin the drive towards the coast but we wanted to stop to see Çatalhöyük – the largest and best preserved Neolithic (new stone age) settlement in the world. Diesel price was around 27.7₺ per litre but managed to find 25.83₺ so that was great. Çatalhöyük  […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/ancient-ruins-and-more-turkiye/ Wed, 12 Oct 2022 07:36:09 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=53285 October 12th, 2022 We were awake early being parked right near the highway (and of course, the call to prayer which is five times a day:  an hour before dawn, midday, afternoon, after sunset and nighttime) so we hit the road by around 7am.   We weren’t sure how far we’d go today but our plan […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/exploring-cappadocia-to-kayseri-turkiye/ Thu, 06 Oct 2022 10:32:26 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=53176 October 6th, 2022 So since we couldn’t see the mechanic until Saturday, we thought we’d enjoy our day and check out this famous national park – Göreme National Park – famous for hot air balloons and “fairy chimneys”. We hadn’t done much research (yes, slap us on the wrist!) so we weren’t sure where to […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/our-dip-into-asia/ Sat, 01 Oct 2022 06:46:49 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=52855 October 1st, 2022 Turkiye now known as “Turkiye”, is a country located in the Thrace region: the southeastern extension of the Balkan Peninsula, with a large part of its territory in Anatolia – the western most region of Asia on a peninsula. It has a population of over 84 million.  It is considered “the bridge […]]]>