During the fall of 2016 Melek and I went on a short tour of several boutique wineries in Tekirdag with our good friends Mete and Nadire Durdag. Thrace ...
Charlottesville
Although Charlottesville, Virginia is close to where we live we had never visited this city which is home to the University of Virginia and Thomas ...
Alaçatı
This town used to be a little village next to Cesme, a popular resort town near Izmir. Our good friends Mete and Nadire Durdag made the smart decision ...
Nepal-Bhutan-Tibet
Melek and I were scheduled to take this trip together until a snag (whether I could enter Tibet with my passport) did not allow me to join her. She ...
Japan
I first went to Japan in 1985 in connection with a meeting of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). mid-1980s. Next, ...
Barcelona
Melek and I went to Barcelona for the first time in 2016 and regretted very much not having gone there earlier. We had another short (one-day) visit ...
Jamaica and Cuba
For many years Melek and I had been interested in going to Cuba, but travel restrictions from the US made it somewhat difficult. (Of course, we could ...
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