{"id":1609,"date":"2012-08-25T22:09:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T21:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mckinstry.ca\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2018-10-02T23:43:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T22:43:26","slug":"9-months-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckinstry.ca\/?p=1609","title":{"rendered":"9 months in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, I finally got around to getting the blog updated and I put a selection of some 32 snaps together to kind of give a flavour of the place. Last winter here was foul with blizzards and snow-days in Istanbul so there was not much exploring done, only a little around Istanbul.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I bought a Harley in Northern Ireland back in Feb and, once the weather improved, rode it down through Europe to Turkey in May over the course of 5 days. This has enabled me to be a lot more mobile and I\u2019ve made some trips to the Aegean coast and additionally made a 3000km bike tour with my old friend Glenn MacArtney around Cappadocia in central Turkey and also along the south and west coasts as well as the Gallipoli peninsula. I\u2019ll post a separate bike-trip page for that one to add to the others in that section.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The summer will be drawing to a close soon, but I will try and be a little more active, time permitting, on the blog. 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