by Dennis | May 7, 2016 | Bursa's Neat Places, Spring
On a warm, sunny April afternoon, we stood at the top of the lookout tower in the little lakeside village of Eskikaraağaç, gazing out over the beautiful Uluabat Lake. The lake stretched across the olive tree-blanketed plains under a clear blue sky and against a...
by Dennis | July 15, 2015 | Bursa's Neat Places, See, Do, and Play, Summer
Under the shade of sprawling plane trees on a warm summer afternoon, my family and I sat at a table in the cobblestone village square with our friend, Murat, who had graciously offered that day to take us for a drive through Bursa’s countryside. There in the square we...
by Dennis | December 5, 2014 | Bursa's Delightful People, Featured Fotoğrafı
This woman sits along the shore of Uluabat Lake in Gölyazı, happily making nets for the village’s fishermen. When I asked if I could snap her picture, she warmly agreed. “Lots of people like to take my picture,” she said. “I walked into a place one day in Bursa and...