First day of riding - ferry from Istanbul to Yalova
Cindy shmoozing Captain Cem
Istanbul
Guess who is shmoozing the driver
Early morning ferry
Captain Cem planning our cycling trip
Blue Mosque and Aya Sophia from the Bosphorus
Loaded and ready to go
already starving - 500m from the ferry
Yalova
First flat - 6 km into the first day of riding
First roadside tea - lots of miming, laughing, no talking
Old Bursa
Old Bursa Streets
Bursa
Busy streets of Busa were terrified when we road through
Room with a view - Bursa hillside - spectacular at night
Selcuk
Selcuk - great view from the hotel room
Flowers are blooming in Ephesus
Theater in Ephesus
Kusadasi
New friends in Bursa
Bursa streets
movie star in Kusadasi
developers getting excited about Kusadasi - 18 towers for Brits
Highway Tea number 2 - some guy and 2 tourists
getting out the rain gear
oh my hamstrings
Some place by the sea
happy drivers in heavy traffic
mountain mosque at the top of some pass
desperate and starving - The McTurko
otel Tinycheapandirty
it will be okay, I still love you - muddy day of...
you lay there, I sit here, we make photo
The biggest challenge in Turkey has been learning how to read Turkish so we can opperate the computer and upload these photos...nothing is in English. You think you know how to operate Microsoft windows, well try it in Turkish. Good reason for traveling with a lap top. It is suprising how few Turkish speak English outside major tourist destinations - or maybe not.
Anyway, we are having a great time. Most folks seem to be finding humour in our bumbling.