Our road trip around Central Turkey introduced us to many fabulous local foods. Desserts were always a highlight.We tasted fabulous icecream in Kahramanmaras and ate mouth watering baklava and katmer in Gaziantep. Antakya is known to...

As the sun rises over Anzac Cove in Gallipoli on the 25th April this year, Australia and New Zealand will remember this day, one hundred years ago, when the Anzacs, the Australian and New Zealand Army...

    Gaziantep may be famous for it’s baklava but there’s another delicious pastry that it is just as well known for: katmer. Straight from the oven, this sweet, flaky pastry pillow of kaymak and...

Even though we’ve spent quite a bit of time in Turkey over the last couple of years, it is only recently that I have learnt the secret of finding a fabulous small hotel there. Last...

Winter’s coming to Turkey and it’s time to make sure you have enough dried vegetables for the cold winter’s months ahead. Housewives have been busy stringing red peppers, eggplant, zucchinis and okra and hanging them...

With our stay at Amasra on the Black Sea over, we started our drive along the coast. Slowing us down were the ongoing roadworks to improve the narrow, windy road. We made a couple of stops on...