by Dennis | February 16, 2015 | Eat, Shop, and Stay
My family and I love traditional Turkish breakfasts. It is far and away our favorite Turkish meal. We try the Turkish breakfast everywhere we go and whenever we get the chance, and we’re always on the lookout for the best place, the best taste, and the best price....
by Dennis | January 19, 2015 | Bursa's Neat Places, Eat, Shop, and Stay, Osmangazi
I had been hearing for some time from friends about this interesting place next to the Demirtaşpaşa metro station in downtown Bursa that serves an excellent, uniquely blended Osmanlı çayı, or Ottoman-style tea. I just had to try it, they told me. They assured me that...
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 | December 2, 2014 | Bursa's Neat Places, Eat, Shop, and Stay, Osmangazi
We’d been hearing from friends and neighbors for some time that we needed to take a night and visit Arap Şükrü, the famous seafood alley off of Altıparmak Avenue in the shadow of Tophane. The problem we’d been having, though, is that when the clock strikes...
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...
