Archive for the 'Travel' Category

Turkey

Whirling dervishes in TurkeyI recently went to Turkey and travelled around the entire Western half of the country. The highlight was hot air ballooning over Cappadoccia, but I just found this long exposure photo of some whirling dervishes I took and thought it was worth posting.

Back from Turkey

Hot air balloon over Cappadoccia, TurkeyI just got back from a couple of weeks exploring Turkey. Living on kebabs and melting in up to 40 degree heat was the challenging kind of fun and I managed to see pretty much all of western Turkey in an exhausting 4000km road trip. I also got to ride a hot air balloon through the valleys of Cappadoccia, which was pretty damn cool!

Back from my travels

After a solid month of eating and chilling, Im back. Despite eating anything and everything that looked remotely edible, I managed to gain only a couple of kilos. Almost every meal brought with it something new and challenging to my palette, from sea snails and chicken feet, to deep fried fish heads and pig’s trotters.

I’m too lazy to sort through and upload my photos yet – instead, I am trying to get out of holiday mode and get back into training and coding :/

Night market at Kenting, Taiwan.

Trekking in the Lakes

Lake DistrictI recently went up to the Lake District with some friends and did a fair amount of trekking. Geez was it windy! Very pretty though, if a little overpriced.

But I guess that’s bank holiday weekend everywhere :(

Wells and Bath, Somerset

Bath Spa cathedralI went to see my mum in Wells at the weekend, picked blackberries to make a crumble, tormented the dog and generally chilled out. It’s the smallest city in England and where they filmed Hot Fuzz.

I took the train to Bath Spa, so there’s a couple of snaps from there too.