Tag Archives: ankara
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Admiration (II)
10Saturday 30 April, 2016 by Uncle Spike
My second entry for the Weekly Photo Challenge for ‘Admiration’ is about those most dedicated of the armed services who perform their …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Admiration (I)
15Friday 29 April, 2016 by Uncle Spike
My immediate thought upon seeing this week’s theme of ‘admiration’ went to young Maya, an eight-year old pianist we know of …
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Ankara
11Wednesday 16 March, 2016 by Uncle Spike
For those who consider this part of the world some war torn dung-heap slum of rabble-rousing mobs who deserve nothing …
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Ankara’s Pigeons
11Thursday 11 February, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Thought I’d have a go at capturing on film (or whatever you call it these days) some rather cold pigeons …
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Maya once more…
7Sunday 07 February, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Playing in the snow in the Anatolian Plateau is fun. Like any kid, Maya, an eight-year old Turkish pianist I met, …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Time (I)
18Friday 05 February, 2016 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry for the Time theme for this Weekly Photo Challenge is a clock in the middle of a roundabout …
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Defiance: Frisked before prayers
16Saturday 30 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Yesterday I took my son to the huge Kocatepe Mosque in downtown Ankara. It was his first time there, and …
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Maya’s back….
14Sunday 03 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
Young Maya, the cheeky little eight year old pianist I met from Türkiye is progressing pretty well, tinkling the ivories …
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WPC ‘Happy Place’… Not here, Not today.
62Saturday 10 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Winter road trip: Bolu Mountains
12Sunday 13 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Just love writing this post today…. it’s mid-September and therefore the back end of summer. It’s pushing 38C still (100F) …
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Winter road trip: Istanbul to Ankara
2Saturday 12 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
The drive from Istanbul (our largest city) back to Ankara (the second largest, and our capital) takes some four to …
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Maya plays again
6Sunday 16 August, 2015 by Uncle Spike
The last couple of posts about Maya, the talented young 8-year old Turkish pianist I came across seemed popular; not …
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Dikmen Vadısı (4 of 4)
1Saturday 15 August, 2015 by Uncle Spike
My final post on this valley park area that I discovered this year – even though it’s on the doorstep …
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Dikmen Vadısı (3 of 4)
Leave a commentSaturday 08 August, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Back again at the park in Ankara that was my surprise find after all these years driving back and forth …
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Maya is back…
7Sunday 02 August, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Following my introduction of young Maya a couple of weeks ago, I heard that this hard working little 8-year old was …
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Dikmen Vadısı (2 of 4)
Leave a commentSaturday 01 August, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This is another post about the massive park I stumbled across right where we visit family each year in Ankara, …
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Dikmen Vadısı (1 of 4)
8Saturday 25 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
I’m no lover city lover, that’s pretty much an accepted fact. So, when I’m forced, persuaded, encouraged, pushed, coerced or …
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Sunrise Ankara
2Thursday 23 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Salt….
Leave a commentWednesday 22 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Central Anatolian salt flats . At the processing factory there are piles of raw salt. .
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Introducing Maya
19Sunday 19 July, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This is a breakaway post by Uncle Spike to introduce a spot of culture or a moment of Sunday serenity. …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Vivid (III)
5Sunday 07 June, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a rare vivid electric blue coloured car I spotted in Ankara …
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Anatolian Road Trip Scenery
8Sunday 31 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
A last minute family event the other week saw me take another road trip to Ankara, the capital city of …
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Finding snow!
7Tuesday 19 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Traveling between Ankara and Istanbul, back in late January, we came across… SNOW. Ok so I get that for many …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Wall (II)
4Saturday 14 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge was incredible carved wall at a place called ‘Anıtkabir’, in Ankara, the capital …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Symmetry (III)
6Sunday 15 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is an image of the cables supporting a footbridge over a …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Symmetry (I)
20Friday 13 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the marvellous Kocatepe Mosque (pronounced koja-tep-e) in downtown Kızılay, Ankara, the capital …
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City Walking
12Saturday 07 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
I guess you could say I am right where I want to be, physiologically speaking, after some eight months spent …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Depth (I)
46Friday 30 January, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge was taken at a place called ‘Anıtkabir’, in Ankara, the capital city …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Angular (III)
1Sunday 23 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is another image from Ankara, Turkey; it’s a three sided sheet water …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Angular (I)
7Friday 21 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is the Ataküle Tower in Ankara, the capital city of my country, …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Descent (III)
8Sunday 02 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is one I’ve used before, but seems pretty apt for this week. …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Descent (II)
6Saturday 01 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a shot of our ceremonial guards (from all branches of the …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Refraction (II)
1Saturday 18 October, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge was taken on a footbridge crossing the Ankara to İzmir …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Signs (III)
1Sunday 05 October, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is from ‘Anıtkabir’, the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and first president of …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Perspective (I)
35Friday 07 March, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge was taken in a public park in Ankara. Hope you …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Threes (I)
38Friday 21 February, 2014 by Uncle Spike
My entry for this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge is actrually a set of three images I used just the other …
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Ankara – Out & About (Part II)
10Thursday 20 February, 2014 by Uncle Spike
During our recent trip to our Capital, Ankara, I have plenty of time to wander the streets while Aunty Spike …
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Curry In Ankara – Finally!
12Wednesday 19 February, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Having travelled around India a fair bit, and having lived and worked in the north of England for 10 years, …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ My Porsche (not)
9Wednesday 19 February, 2014 by Uncle Spike
PORSCHE Not mine I hasten to add. With that ground clearance, it wouldn’t manage our unmade village tracks here, lol. Nice to …
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Atatürk’s Mausoleum – Part Two
16Tuesday 18 February, 2014 by Uncle Spike
An earlier post, entitled Atatürk’s Mausoleum – Part One, was a summary of a recent visit to ‘Anıtkabir’ in Ankara, the capital …
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City Pooches
19Monday 17 February, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Ankara, early February, and we came across a rather bizarre event – Sunday City Pooches in the park (with their …
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Atatürk’s Mausoleum – Part One
15Sunday 16 February, 2014 by Uncle Spike
On a hill overlooking much of Ankara, the capital city of Turkey, is a place called ‘Anıtkabir’. The literal translation …
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Bad Parking ?!
10Saturday 15 February, 2014 by Uncle Spike
What….??? I saw this VW stuck on the side of a shopping centre in Ankara, our capital city 🙂 …
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Did You Get It?
18Friday 14 February, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Yesterday’s ‘guess what’ post was a stinker… or was it? Did you guess anywhere near? This was the original shot …
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Flower Friday
3Friday 14 February, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Mid winter up on the Anatolian Plateau can be cold…. So to come across a rose / flower bed still …
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Ankara – Out & About
7Wednesday 12 February, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Ankara, our capital city. It’s pretty much a purpose built, home grown affair; having started out as a small provincial …
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Mordor – Turkish Style
4Monday 10 February, 2014 by Uncle Spike
En route to Ankara from the Aegean coast, we pass by the small town of Sivrihisar, in the province of …
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Roadtrip To Ankara
13Sunday 09 February, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This was a pretty normal journey across to Ankara. We set out at 4am in the dark, encountered lots of …
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Son In Law On Duty
17Saturday 08 February, 2014 by Uncle Spike
The big smoke has beckoned, and this scruffy little village man has abandoned farming life… but only for a few …
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