We woke up refreshed at our campsite on the farm. It was already getting hot and as we packed up, swallows swooped all around us catching the insects we disturbed in the long grass. Today was the hottest we had experienced so far. It seems incongruous that the further west…
Having a rest day yesterday was just the ‘bees knees’. Time to do stuff like washing clothes and bedding., checking Poki’s oil level and plain relaxing. A gorgeous day with temp of 31deg. Watching last weekends edition of LR Time and getting a few email’s away. The washing dried…
When we arrived last night the campsite was very quiet with few other campers. It gave us a peaceful night and morning. We were up late, about 09.00, had a leisurely breakfast and then set about the laundry. Luckily it was a beautiful day, so everything dried very quickly. I’m…
We drove away from our campsite of the night as a tip truck was about to drive onto it and dump another load of rubble. We got out just in time. That was at 8.30am. Thankfully the nightmare of getting across the Bosphorus and out of Istanbul, was over…or more…
From South of Bartin to a bit North of Istanbul Airport. Our campsite was in a hollow, so when we woke it was quite misty and damp. The tent was soaking. We carried it up onto a flat plateau in the sun and waited about 30 minutes for it to…
What a disaster last night was!! Kids running riot around the vehicle till well after midnight and it took a loud “Shut Up!!” To get some peace but then the excavator, that we were certain would cease scratching rocks out of the ground and loading them on trucks, would stop…
The Drive to Samsun We woke early to a beautiful blue sky day and left our beachside camp before 09.30. It was a bit of a manoeuvring job to get out through the trees and the low power lines strung between the trees. The assistance of the owner with a…
A warm night. On the road by 11am with 385 k’s to reach Samsun, our chosen destination for the day. The camp is 30k’s inland and starting to climb up into the clouds. According to Jen’s phone it was raining hard. Ah huh! Luckily we missed it. It wasn’t till…
Leaving our Camping Spot It had been a secure, flat place inside the tumbledown stone walls of a derelict building. Getting in was reasonably easy, but getting out a lot harder. Dennis decided it was necessary to turn around, as it was too difficult to reverse out. This was achieved…
Breakfast in Poki outside the guest house, in the street was a fruit laden one. The usual porridge but with strawberries, cherries, blueberries, raisins and banana. On the road by 10am and our first destination, Another Holocaust Memorial, on the outskirts of Yerevan. It’s an imposing edifice. Grey basalt structure…