There’s not a great deal of written material on this short trip to Turkey, which Janie and I enjoyed very much.
I have now, however, written up the holiday as best I can as an eight-part piece, starting with the Istanbul leg of the trip – click here or below:
Janie’s diary (see above) confirms how we flew out from Heathrow to Istanbul on 8 November and had arranged to be met at the airport and taken to our first hotel, the Sokullu Paşa Hotel.
It also shows that we booked a flight to Izmir lunchtime 11 November, with the Avis desk awaiting us there.
Our flights back to Heathrow on 18 November were 10:00 Izmir to Istanbul, then 13:45 to Heathrow arriving London at 16:00 GMT.
We had not arranged any accommodation for the Izmir week; we were playing it by ear on a fly-drive holiday. Seems fair enough in November, frankly.
Part of our purpose was to see Ros Elliot (who lived/lives near Izmir) and her plans were a bit up in the air, so booking ourselves up ahead of time would have been a bit daft.
There’s a good album of well-labelled photos – which you can already view – click here or below:
From those photo labels and memory, I’ll write up the whole trip, hopefully before the end of February 2021.