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We love shoes. They make an outfit. They are part of our personality. Yet…when we travel, we can’t bring ALL of them. And they also have to be versatile enough for many types of outfits. So what do I bring, the one who travels with just a carry-on? I’m glad you...

Food. We all love it. We all need it. And if you are a foodie, all the more! Turkish Cuisine is so savory and delicious and I simply had to share some of it with you from a previous trip. These are just SOME of the things I discovered in Istanbul alone. Let us begin our culinary...

Vatsala was a friend of one of my dear guests from a previous Turkey Travel Experience. Her and her daughte rcame from where they live in China on our Old Villages Itinerary…they were so much fun to have along on the trip! “I just returned from the June 2015 trip to...

One of the awesome things we do when we go to the Sahara Desert is fossil hunting. I have never really been into fossil hunting personally – well, maybe when I was in school…but as an adult, not so much. But many in our group were really fond of it, so that made this...

Italy…I don’t think I have met anyone who has not wanted to go to Italy. It evokes such wonderful emotions and I encourage everyone to visit her at least once! I had a great group of mostly photographers accompany me through Umbria & Tuscany and our time was...

The first time I visited Italy was in 2008. I visited again in 2010 and then last year, 2014. When I travel I tend to “adopt” certain things, foods, traditions from the cultures I love best. Indeed Italy was no different. I continue to make caprese for lunches and...

The best advertisement is people – their experiences, their reviews and their honest word-of-mouth recommendations. I want to share with you, my blog readers, some of these reviews of my guests, so you can get a flavor of our small group travels. —————————————————- I met...

One of my ALL TIME favorite Turkish eats is gözleme. It is a traditional Turkish flatbread and pastry dish, made of hand-rolled leaves of yufka dough that are lightly brushed with butter and eggs, filled with various toppings, sealed, and cooked over a griddle. While we were in...

I was excited to have Bob & Bev on our Turkey Travel Experience; both had been to Turkey and Bob actually spent several years in Turkey growing up as an expat teenager. We were both there in Istanbul a couple days before and they had asked me if I’d like to join them...

I’m not sure why exactly but I have ALWAYS had the Pantheon on my list of places to visit. When I was in Rome for the first time for only 6 hours,  I was looking forward to see the Pantheon the most…it was like a first date sort of feeling in my stomach…I was...