by Dennis | April 5, 2017 | Travel Tips and Visiting Info
We here at The Best of Bursa enjoy following other Turkey travel blogs and have in the past listed some of our favorite Turkey travel blog articles. One of the sites we follow is the blog of real estate consulting firm, Property Turkey. Recently, Property Turkey...
by Dennis | October 17, 2016 | Travel Tips and Visiting Info
We’re happy to announce that a trio of The Best of Bursa’s more useful blog articles have been published as iOS apps. GPSMyCity, a leader in travel app publishing, has published article apps for three of our favorite posts. These article apps are now available in the...
by Dennis | October 11, 2016 | Bursa's Delightful People, Thoughts and Musings
Guest contribution by Ann Marie Mershon Ann Marie Mershon is a retired English teacher living on a lake in the north woods of Minnesota. She treasures her many years teaching in Istanbul and recorded many of her experiences (as well as her deep love for Turkey) in her...
by Dennis | April 16, 2016 | Travel Tips and Visiting Info
Good news for iPad/iPhone users! Select Bursa articles are now available at GPSmyCity! We’ve offered a couple of our most useful articles for publication on the GPSmyCity iOS mobile app. The GPSmyCity iOS app allows readers to download articles and walking tours...
by Dennis | February 18, 2016 | Featured Fotoğrafı
There are some truly beautiful natural areas in and around Bursa. When a skilled photographer captures Bursa’s natural beauty on camera, I am both impressed and inspired. That’s why when I ran across Özgür Altınkaynak’s photography of Bursa’s nature, I asked him if I...
by Dennis | January 17, 2016 | Thoughts and Musings, Travel Tips and Visiting Info
A guest post by Kaela La Farge Jason and I are always in the mood to explore Turkish cities and towns we haven’t before visited. Bursa was near the top of our must-visit list, and when we ran across The Best of Bursa while planning our weekend getaway to Bursa, we...
by Dennis | December 19, 2015 | Eat, Shop, and Stay
Bursa is known for a good many things: Ottoman history, silk and textiles, candied chestnuts, Uludağ, winter sports, metalworking, auto manufacturing, peaches and apples, ancient plane trees, among many others. But when it comes to regional Turkish cuisine, Bursa’s...
by Dennis | October 29, 2015 | Featured Fotoğrafı, Miscellany
Happy birthday to The Best of Bursa! Around this time last year, The Best of Bursa launched with a handful of photos, some visiting information, zero readers, and the simple idea of making Bursa, Turkey better known to the English-speaking world through stories and...
by Dennis | September 12, 2015 | Travel Tips and Visiting Info
I’ve recently noticed an uptick in the number of articles in the blogosphere offering tips and advice about Turkey travel. While I haven’t read every article on the subject, I have perused a few of the more popular ones. Some of them are excellent and offer useful...
by Dennis | August 10, 2015 | Miscellany
As my sisters and I sat around the table one recent day enjoying my wife’s excellent variation of tabouli, the delicious eastern Mediterranean salad, the subject of Turkish cuisine came up in conversation. As we talked, I was reminded of our friend, Alesta, and her...
