by Dennis | November 23, 2015 | Bursa's Neat Places, Featured Fotoğrafı, Yildirim
Bursa’s Green Mausoleum (Yeşil Türbesi) is the resting place of Mehmet I Çelebi (1381-1421), the fifth Ottoman sultan. The tomb was constructed by the sultan himself and is located in his social complex in Bursa’s Yeşil (green) neighborhood on the east end...
by Dennis | June 26, 2015 | Bursa's Neat Places, See, Do, and Play, Summer, Yildirim
It was a sweltering hot mid-summer day down in the valley. The kids were wasting their time lazily lounging on the sofa in the salon under the steady flow of artificially cooled air from the A/C. My wife and I were getting tired of being cooped up in the house. And we...
by Dennis | January 12, 2015 | Bursa's Delightful People, Eat, Shop, and Stay, Yildirim
“Gel, gel, gel,” Sadet said to my wife, Amy, with an inviting hand motion. “Gel” is the command form of the verb “to come,” and in Turkish culture it’s wise to obey such a command given by an elder. Amy, not sure what she was...
by Dennis | January 6, 2015 | Bursa's Neat Places, See, Do, and Play, Winter, Yildirim
It was a rainy 7 degrees centigrade when my buddy, Mehmet, called me out of the blue and asked me if I’d like to go with him on a Saturday afternoon drive up Uludağ Road to the mountaintop. “Um, okay,” I said with a slight bit of trepidation, wondering in the back of...
by Dennis | November 25, 2014 | Bursa's Neat Places, Eat, Shop, and Stay, Yildirim
I’m a small-town guy at heart, having grown up among cattle and cornfields. So anytime I get the chance to get out of the big city, I get a little giddy. There’s something about the slower, relaxed pace of a lonely little village that proves therapeutic for me, a...
