I didn’t think we were going to make it to Turkey this time. We almost didn’t. Our scheduled stop in Izmir was cancelled for safety concerns due to the political climate weeks before we left for Barcelona. We weren’t entirely heartbroken – we had no plans for Turkey, having done an extensive tour of the Read more
I’ll be honest – I had no real desire to visit Kusadasi. Istanbul, absolutely (which was part of the allure of the Norwegian Spirit cruise we’d been contemplating). But if you’d asked me to give you a list of the 100 places I had to visit before I die, you wouldn’t find Kusadasi on that Read more
I admit it: I’ve been putting off writing this for a little while. There were a few legitimate distractions (Cancun, Phoenix, the blog redesign, work), but I was also dragging my feet a little here for probably the same reasons I still have a suitcase filled with souvenirs sitting and waiting to be unpacked in Read more
