Time
In the past it has always been easy to find time to write about my crazy travel adventures, but lately time is something that I don’t seem to have enough of. Maybe I’m just lazy, but whatever it is I apologize for the delay.
Where did I leave off…. Hmm
After finding a good home for my Fiat, I boarded a bus bound for Ukraine. Hardly any foreigners visit Ukraine, so I thought I would check it out. Crossing the border into Ukraine I felt like I was in the movie Borat. It was not exactly what I expected but once I got to the city of Lviv things became “normal” again. Lviv is a beautiful little city filled with (you can quote me on this one) “The most beautiful women in the world!”
I was only able to stay in Lviv for 4 days since I had a party to attend in Turkey, but the 4 days were great… goodnight life, great food and really friendly locals! Ukraine gets added to the list of countries I need to revisit, and do the right way.
My first stop in Turkey was a city called Antalya which is on the Mediterranean. Antalya turned out to be the one things I hate the most, a all inclusive package holiday hell hole! These type places make me want to burn my passport and never leave home! So after spending 3 grueling days and not to mention during Ramadan (which means no drinking, no partying, pretty much nothing fun holiday) I left Antalya for a place called Cappadocia. Only positive thing from the stay in Antalya was meeting the crazy freaks that worked at the hotel and getting a suntan.
Cappadocia is in the center of Turkey and a place where people built homes into the cliffs “an ancient region of central Asia Minor, between Lake Tuz and the Euphrates River, north of Cilicia. It was an important center of early Christianity.” Got that from the dictionary. It reminded me of Petra in Jordan. Cappadocia was absolutely stunning, I place I highly recommend if anyone goes to Turkey.
I am now visiting friends in the capitol city Ankara, which is a big city, filled with great Turkish food. I have fallen in love with the Turkish dish “iskender” its pretty much donor meat with bread and some sort of sauce and yogurt 
Next stop is Istanbul to see the dentist and some friends, then Spain to start the next big journey. Here are some pictures from Ukraine and Turkey.
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the one photo of (I think thats what they are) spices made me wanna cook with all of them. too bad you couldn’t send a stash of spices over.
excited to read you are headed to one of my favorite countries: Spain. i’d like to see what your lens captures there. i know you have been there before; but perhaps you might something even more amazing that catches your eye this time around…
Gracias,
BB
Comment by BMargarita — September 25, 2009 @ 10:32 am