Visit to an abandoned glass manufactury near Liege in Belgium

The road is long, dusty and hot (when you travel by donkey). For us three, that was:  Dirk from Germany, Shigeru from Japan and myself, it was a rather long, clean and airconditioned bus experience to get from Kayseri to Malatya. There are some nice wide views and scenerys during the 350km ride.
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Walking trough some valleys around Göreme.

I travelled to Göreme in the Cappadocia Region by train from Istanbul and checked in at the Kookaburra Pension. On the 2nd day i went on a Daytrip to a Canyon, the Turkish Star Wars Movie shooting site and a big Underground City.

Recently i started to read a lot about Istanbul as the gateway for a lot of travelers to all kind of destinations in the middle East and Asia. Especially the late 1960s hippie trail is a funny story to read about. Starting in Istanbul, leading on land all the way trough Iran, Afghanistan and so [...]

And one more time …

this time from the Topkapı-Palace, it translates as Canongate Palace.
A huge residence where most of the Ottoman Sultans spend their time while ruling over the Ottoman Empire during at least 600 years. The Palace is like a small Village with loads of different buildings which have their special function, for example the [...]

Slowly but steady..Istanbul, day three Woke up, drank 1 liter super sweet Chai and checked out at the not so Chill Out Hostel. Time for the traditonal old stuff sightseeing tour i thought and went down the Istikal street, riding a nostaligic German tram towards the Sultanahmet Area on the European side of [...]

An ordinary day in Istanbul

Day 1 of MiKs travel trough Turkey in September 2010

Its Sunday 2pm, temperature hitting 33*C under my roof. Instead of falling asleep in the hammock once again i packed my stuff into a speedy twingo and headed for the beach not too far away, just 250km

According to the Dalai Lamas “Instructions for Life” one should visit an unfamiliar place once in a year, as often as it is possible i mean.  So i went to the Capital of my “Motherland” Poland called Warszawa. Joanna was so kind to give me a place to stay and we went crisscross through this [...]

Traveling on my bicycle last sunday brought me to this abandoned plexiglas fabric building near Europaplatz in Aachen. I´ve spend some time to walk around and found loads of graffiti artwork inside, have a look