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 | December 9, 2014 | Bursa's Delightful People, Gemlik
“You can taste it if you want, but I don’t recommend it,” my friend Arif warned me in Turkish as we walked through one of his olive groves. Or at least that’s what I thought he said. I had just pulled a green olive off one of his trees and was closely examining it,...
by Dennis | December 5, 2014 | Bursa's Delightful People, Featured Fotoğrafı, Nilüfer
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...
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...
