Tag Archives: izmir
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Harmony (I)
11Saturday 05 March, 2016 by Uncle Spike
My first entry for the Weekly Photo Challenge is about the harmony of living in the natural world. In this shot, we have …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ We love our flags…
3Wednesday 02 March, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Waiting for the bus
1Wednesday 13 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Cute baby dragon or what?
4Tuesday 12 January, 2016 by Uncle Spike
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Monster?
6Wednesday 23 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Gathering (III)
7Tuesday 22 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
My third entry for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a gathering at the treehouse! Hope you enjoy this entry. . . The first …
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TCDD – Turkish State Railways
Leave a commentSunday 20 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This is the rather impressive and fairly imposing symbol of TCDD, the Turkish State Railway. I just found it interesting for …
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Basmane Station
2Thursday 17 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This is the Basmane (pronounced: Bas-Mah-Nay) train station or terminal, located in the city of İzmir, on the western shores …
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Trees where we walk
4Tuesday 15 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Our pavements, or sidewalks, depending on your locality, are really much use for actually, err, walking on. There are often huge …
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Hmm, that looks inviting; not!
Leave a commentSaturday 12 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Spotted this ‘sports’ place a few weeks ago. Now we’ve all seen those glass- and chrome- styled sports places of …
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Typical Turkish Town Scenes
5Tuesday 08 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Each country has it’s own ‘look and feel’, and Türkiye is not alone. These are all images taken recently on the streets …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Eye Spy (I)
19Friday 04 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
I don’t believe it… yet again I’ve found having just used a particular photo on my blog, out comes a …
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Smartphone outlet – Turkish-style
23Wednesday 02 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Even though I’ve not been one to partake in the Smartphone bonanza; which, according to my wife puts me right …
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Depth of field
1Tuesday 01 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
In my trying to get a bit more adventurous with Mr Camera here, I’m having a go at some different stuff this autumn, …
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Macro Monday: Giraffe’s eyelashes
10Monday 30 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
How about this as my entry for Macro Monday this week. It’s a rather interesting close-up shot of the eyelashes …
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Life-jackets for sale
4Wednesday 25 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Trousers Shoes Life Jackets Car tyre inner-tubes . . These are the items you’ll see on sale here today. Trousers …
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Pavement café bar, Turkish style
1Tuesday 24 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Who’s a pretty boy then?
1Sunday 22 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Trio (II)
16Saturday 21 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Isn’t it always the way, you post an image one day, and the next day up pops a photo challenge …
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Siezed n Chained
2Saturday 21 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Having a road legal vehicle here in Türkiye is still a sort optional rule that many do not ascribe to. Partly it’s …
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Wordless Wednesday ~ Like my crown?
3Wednesday 18 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Turkish Political breakfast
5Tuesday 17 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
In Turkey, we have an endless love with breakfast, eating outdoors, domestic politics, meetings and/or marches, and of course, generating …
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Avenue of Palms
9Thursday 12 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
In the centre of İzmir, the western Turkish city we visited for a family wedding recently, is a central park …
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Birds on a Wire
8Tuesday 10 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
In trying to play around a bit more with photography, the nearest I have to a hobby away from daily …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Ornate (I)
12Friday 06 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge was something I took last Friday after prayers at the …
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Black Swan & friends
1Thursday 05 November, 2015 by Uncle Spike
At a recent visit to a wildlife park, we came across a rather green pond… however, it was pretty full …
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92nd Republic Day
7Thursday 29 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Today marks the 92nd year of the founding of the Republic of Türkiye, and yours truly is in the western …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Extraordinary (I)
17Friday 16 October, 2015 by Uncle Spike
DEAD MANAKIN…? This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge was an extraordinary sight alright! On a family visit …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Blur (I)
23Friday 03 April, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s first entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge was taken in a road tunnel between Aydın and Izmir …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Depth (III)
4Sunday 01 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This week’s third entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is an image showing two buddies; one out of the water, and …
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Roadtrip: İzmir-Manisa-Akhisar
4Sunday 14 December, 2014 by Uncle Spike
During the ‘bayram’ or holiday/festival that marks the end of Ramadan this year (so that would be early August this …
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İZMİR…. Final Odd Stuff
1Sunday 07 December, 2014 by Uncle Spike
After what, some 13 posts covering our short stay in İzmir for Ramadan Eid back in August, THIS is the …
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İZMİR…. Rooftops & Sundown
2Wednesday 03 December, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Living as I do in the rural southwest of Turkey, I don’t get to see many rooftops, apart from a …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Angular (II)
6Saturday 22 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s second entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a monument to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and first president …
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İZMİR…. On The Aegean
Leave a commentSunday 02 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Back to my look at İzmir, the third largest city in Turkey, positioned on our western coast, but set right …
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İZMİR…. Birdlife
12Thursday 16 October, 2014 by Uncle Spike
I’m a bit of a nature lover, as you might have guessed, having aborted the prescribed lifestyle of the modern …
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İZMİR…. Fishing Industry
Leave a commentTuesday 14 October, 2014 by Uncle Spike
In my previous post on the city of İzmir, I mentioned that there was a fishing industry… well, yes there …
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İZMİR…. Karşıyaka
10Thursday 09 October, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Continuing with my look at the northern suburbs of İzmir, our third largest city by populace in the Turkish Republic, …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Signs (V)
2Tuesday 07 October, 2014 by Uncle Spike
This week’s fifth and final entry from me for the Weekly Photo Challenge is a sort of sign, it was some graffiti adorned to …
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İZMİR…. @ Past Midnight
5Sunday 05 October, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Our stay in İzmir was at the end of July this year, so a pretty ‘warm’ time of year to …
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Flying Overhead
3Wednesday 01 October, 2014 by Uncle Spike
I adore flying ! But alas not something that I’ve had the fortune to do since our honeymoon. . But is …
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İZMİR…. Not all cramped streets
4Saturday 27 September, 2014 by Uncle Spike
. This is another in my series of looks at İzmir, the large coastal city on the Aegean (western) coast …
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İZMİR…. Walking @ 06:00
8Thursday 25 September, 2014 by Uncle Spike
During that recent stay in İzmir, as mentioned before, the country life doesn’t leave ones soul just because you happen …
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What’s On Your Balcony?
9Wednesday 24 September, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Did you spot the ‘something not quite right’? If not, well, look again at the lower balcony centre/left… . Now …
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What’s ‘not quite right’ here?
19Tuesday 23 September, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Something in this image is a little out of the ordinary…. just not quite right…. Can you spot it? . …
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İZMİR…. City Sunrise
10Sunday 21 September, 2014 by Uncle Spike
You can take the country boy (lad, guy, man, old git – delete as appropriate) to a city, but I still …
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Tunnel Vision
2Saturday 20 September, 2014 by Uncle Spike
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İZMİR…. And The Seagulls
7Wednesday 17 September, 2014 by Uncle Spike
One of the interesting aspects of our visit to the city of İzmir, was the birdlife that I found all …
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“No Malcolm, it’s this way!”
3Sunday 14 September, 2014 by Uncle Spike
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İZMİR…. A Brief Visit
8Thursday 11 September, 2014 by Uncle Spike
A while ago, Clan Spike spent a few days in the city of İzmir, on the west coast of Turkey. …
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