Tag Archives: Turkey 🇹🇷
Trabzonspor
This is a post about a day in the fishing town of Cide and about the football team Trabzonspor and why you should like them. It took me a long time to get out of bed in the morning, I was just too tired. But I got up eventually, had breakfast and sat around for […]
A Story Of Regret: Part II
This post is about a walk from a shelter near Camalti to Cide. It’s the second and closing part of this story of regret. The shelter turned out to be perfect. It was a little house with windows and a door, and next to it there was a water faucet, a toilet, and a separate […]
A Story Of Regret: Part I
This post is about a 31km walk from an abandoned house near Kerempe Feneri to a shelter near Camalti. It’s part one of a story of regret. There are two parts to this story. If you read them and you end up feeling disappointed in me, then you are not alone. I feel the same […]
around the bend
This post is about a 23km walk from Doganyurt to an abandoned house near Kerempe Feneri. There’s a lighthouse and an emotional moment. I bought some bread and some bananas. Then, just as I was leaving, one of the old men of Doganyurt appeared. He had previously told me about the time when he used […]
between soup and tea
This is a post about some idle time spent between a restaurant and a tea house in Doganyurt. I am a creature of habit. I ended up spending three days in Doganyurt. And I went to the same restaurant every day. It probably had a name, I don’t know. What I do know is that […]
stress yok!
This post is about the small town of Doganyurt, and why I think it’s one of the best places to relax on the Turkish Black Sea coast. Before I arrived here, I didn’t care much for that place on the map called Doganyurt (or actually: Doğanyurt). I knew that yurt meant something like “land” from […]
the yellowing
This post is about a 12km walk from Kayran to Doganyurt. It was the time when I noticed the leaves slowly getting yellow. Remember how I was cold when I was spending the night in my summer sleeping bag and Blankie in the village school a few days earlier? Well, this time I woke up […]
gut feelings
This post is about a 25km walk from Inebolu to Kayran. My plan was to stay in a coastal village on the way, but instead I continued walking. I took a stroll through Inebolu in the morning. Officially I was just on a quest to buy some bananas, but what I really wanted was to […]
tiki torches
This post is about a 26km walk from Abana to Inebolu. I reenacted a movie scene on the way, and in the end there were torches. It had rained heavily during the night. But when I left Abana in the morning, a bit of water here and there and a sense of freshness in the […]
mustang
This is a post about a walk around Abana. I saw an abandoned hammam, a wooden mosque, and the main mosque at dusk. Before starting this leg of the walk I had promised everyone – including myself – that I would go easy on my body. No long distances, no complete exhaustion. I had to […]
club of kings
This is a post about how I went fashion shopping in Abana. I ended up getting a wool hat that said KING and a bandana. I woke up clean. My body and my clothes: clean. My hair and my beard: also clean. I was in a room with a white bed. The receptionist had said […]
not all drivers
This post is about an 18km walk from Samanci to Abana. I learned something about the hills west of here, and in the end I got very angry. Last night I made a mistake. I knew it was probably going to be a bit cold, but I decided to use my summer sleeping bag and […]
quad gang
This post is about a 10km walk from Catalzeytin to Samanci. It involved a late start and (almost) no place to sleep. The sky had cleared up overnight. But at 11:00 in the morning it was still raining. I decided to stay put a little longer and see if I could wait it out. My […]
go back
This post is about a 13km walk from Türkeli to Catalzeytin. It rained so heavily that I did something I rarely ever do – I turned around. Sinan’s guesthouse was booked today, so I couldn’t stay. This was bad because I needed to rest, and because I would have liked to spend more time with […]
the Austrian
This post is about an 18km walk from Doganli to Türkeli. First I was awoken by a hedgehog, then by the prayer call. In the end I met an Ösi. At night, a hedgehog came to visit. Or rather: it seemed like the hedgehog was a regular guest in the saw mill, and my presence […]
lion’s milk
This post is about a 23km walk from Ayancik to Doganli. I ended up staying in a sawmill where some gentlemen were having a drink. My legs weren’t ready to leave. They wanted to stay. They reminded me of it every time I walked up the stairs. How could they be so heavy? But the […]
give me your lokma
This is a post about having some lokma in Ayancik. Oh, and I decided to sort through my stuff and mail some of it to Istanbul. There was a time in my life when I believed I was smart. That time is long gone. But there is something good about this. For with the realization […]
angry water
This post is about a 23km walk from Gebelit to Ayancik. I saw some of the destruction left behind by the flood two months earlier. I don’t often remember my dreams, but tonight I did. In my dream I was in a building with a glass dome, and there was a tornado outside. So I […]
stuffed
This post is about a 21km walk from Sarikum to Gebelit. I made a dog friend and found one of the best camping spots ever. The night had been surprisingly quiet. It doesn’t happen often that I manage to pick a good camping spot, but this time I did. Sure, there were a few birds […]
the wrong road
This post is about a 15km walk from Akliman to Sarikum. It started out easy, but then I made a mistake and took the wrong road. I woke up from a sound. At first I thought it was traffic, but it turned out to be the sound of rain. When I went downstairs for breakfast, […]