The boys day out

It was time for abit of boys fun for the day. We headed out to Northampton race track where we got to have ago at drifting! Burning some rubber really.... The aim of the game is to get your car the most sideways and out of control LOOKING but still be in control.

Some of the cars, that did the trick

Me in a car ( It wasnt my favourite, Couldnt get it smoking and sideways very much)

The drifting was a half day experience that we brought, it was alot of fun and would love to do it again.

Wizard of Oz

An evening of following Dorothy to the land of Oz and back again and of course along the yellow brick road......

It was a really good night and a classic that we had to see. The show was well done and it had the cutest little dog as one of the cast members (Toto). He was a very good boy! ( or girl...)

Last day in Turkey :(


Unfortunately we didnt make it to the capital of Turkey, Ankara, as there were protests and the streets were closed. It was a long trip from Cappadocia to Istanbul but we were excited to be able to eat Burger King at one stop as we had had enough of buffets and kebabs!

We headed back to Istanbul for our last night in Turkey and spent the next day having another look around Istanbul. It is such a busy city with a lot of rip off clothes, hand bags, perfume, sunglasses etc. Therefore there were numerous people on the street trying to sell you stuff. Overall this was a great trip, really nice people on our tour and Turkey is beautiful, definitely recommend travelling there :)

The Grand Bazarr - Istanbul



Istanbul university

byzantine triumphal arch

Turkey Day eight

After seeing the Cappadocia landscape as we drove to the city it was cool to see the city up close, and to visit the underground houses they use to live in and still live in. The first was an underground city which was home to early Christians who hid underground from Roman persecution.

Ash inside the underground city



Winery inside the underground city

Fairy chimneys - we climbed up inside it was very scarey as there wasnt a lot to hold on to!

More fairy chimneys

Pottery shop - we received a demonstration on how they were made. One of the guys on the tour had a go at it, not as easy as it looks!

Some of the nice pottery that was made at the shop

Looking out at the landscape in Cappadocia

Paul and I

Goreme open-air museum

Church in the Goreme open-air museum

Some of the tour peps watching the Turkish folklore dancers

Some of the dancers - was a very good night indeed! (all the alcohol we could drink - in two hours)

Turkey Day Seven

After visitng the calcium terraces yesterday we head east along an ancient Silk Road to see the amazing landscape of Cappadocia. Along the way we stop and see Konya where the Mevlana Whirling Dervish museum is.

Mevlana Museum



Inside the museum

Sultanhani Caravanserai

Inside Sultanhani Caravanserai ( Paul on top)

An interesting water tap next to Sultanhani Caravanserai

Turkey Day Six

Today was definitely the best day of the tour, it was great to see the calcium terraces it was a beautiful day and we were very hot so we were a bit gutted we didnt have our swimming gear for the little pools up the top.

Paul and I standing in front of the calcium terraces. The lake was crystal clear

The little pools on the calcium terraces, as you can see people were in their board shorts and bikinis, unfortunately we didnt realise you could swim/dip in the little ponds!!

Paul looking cool

Running commentary from moi



A scenic view of the terraces



The theatre in the ruined city of Hierapolis. The Hierapolis is an ancient resort town built above the calcium terraces

Turkey Day five


Today we headed to the Temple of Artemis and had a guided tour of the ancient city and stadium of Ephesus. It was really cool to see the ancient city, especially the library and the stadium really amazing.

View of Ephesus



Old toilets at Ephesus - The guy sitting on the toilet was from our tour he was very entertaining :)

The crew with the ruins of ephesus library in the background

A closer view of part of the ruins of the library

I was playing with this cat, then one of the guys from my tour came over and started playing with it only for the cat to scratch and bite him.. he must of liked me

Believed to be the first advertisement

The Great theatre at Ephesus - It  use to seat around 25,000 people

After visiting the ancient city we headed to a carpet weaving show where we were shown how the carpets are made and shown the different carpets and why they have particular patterns woven in them - for example certain symbols will be symbolic to certain areas of Turkey. We did end up buying a carpet, they are very good sellers! It increases in value the more you walk on it, cant say that about many things!! haha.

Carpet weaving

Silk worms - The brush that you can see is lightly brushed over the silk worms to extract the silk and the silk is then placed on the wheel to spin the silk from the worm. Then at the end it is just the worm left. It was very weird to touch! From each silk worm was 1 mile of silk

Turkish delight shop - we got to taste a variety of sweets