Destination: Turkey
The Woman in the Keffiyeh
by Jeffrey Tayler | 06.11.07 | 6:52 PM ET
In southernmost Turkey, women are known as the forbidden ones. So when a beautiful local invited Jeffrey Tayler for a ride on her horse-drawn cart and unmasked herself, he tried not to look. But he failed.
The World Hum Travel Zeitgeist: Bestsellers, Bargains and Tiny Bubbles
by Michael Yessis | 04.20.07 | 8:07 AM ET
This week travelers prowled for bargains, studied French culture, got left behind for hours and mourned the passing of Hawaii’s cultural ambassador, Don Ho. Here’s the Zeitgeist.
Most Read Weblog Post
World Hum (this week)
R.I.P. (and Aloha) Don Ho
Most E-mailed Travel Story
New York Times (current)
Online Fares: If It’s Good, Is It Too Good to Be True?
Most Popular Page Tagged Travel
Del.icio.us (recent)
airfarewatchdog
Most Popular Travel Story
Netscape (this week)
Business Owner’s Guide to Cutting Travel Costs
Most Popular Travel Podcast
iTunes (current)
Travel With Rick Steves
* This Week: “French culture 201 for the American traveler”
Top Rated “Your Pick” Video
LonelyPlanet.tv (current)
Istanbul Guerilla Guide
* Lonely Planet TV is still getting up to speed. This video gets the top spot with, as of Friday morning, two votes.
Cycling the Silk Road
by Michael Yessis | 02.15.07 | 8:43 AM ET
Three college friends recently embarked on an epic ride from Turkey to China via the Silk Road, a trek being chronicled this week on Slate. Greg Grim wrote the first installment, and he outlined the trip’s goals: “Mikey, Cam, and I aimed to show these folks that not all Americans are fat, rich, Muslim-hating warmongers. Rather, we’re people just like them, with the same needs, questions, and desires. But diplomacy isn’t our sole mission: It doesn’t hurt that these lands are breathtaking in their beauty and baffling in their culture.” As usual with Slate’s travel coverage, a compelling slideshow accompanies the dispatches.
Related on World Hum:
* Lost City of the Silk Road
* Colin Thubron and the “Shadow of the Silk Road”
The World Hum Travel Zeitgeist
by Michael Yessis | 09.08.06 | 7:02 AM ET
Looks like we’re a little grumpy this week. Our snapshot of what’s on the minds of travelers and armchair travelers reveals we’re concerned about “Ugly Americans,” bad-mannered Chinese and our poor service on American Airlines. What will get us out of this funk? Perhaps 36 hours in Grand Rapids, Michigan? Here’s your zeitgeist.
Most Viewed Weblog Post
World Hum (this week)
* Rethinking the Ugly American
No. 1 World Music Album
iTunes (current)
* The Life Aquatic by Seu George
Most Complained About U.S. Airline
Air Travel Consumer Report (June 2006)
* American Airlines
Most Popular Site Tagged “Travel”
del.icio.us (recent)
* Kayak
Best Selling Travel Book
Amazon.com (current)
* Rory Stewart’s The Places in Between
Most E-Mailed Travel Story
USA Today (current)
* Chinese travelers’ bad manners earn a chilly reception
Most Viewed Dispatch
World Hum (this week)
* Tony Perottet’s The Joy of Steam
Most Viewed “Travel & Places” Video
YouTube (this week)
* U-StampIt Productions: “This is a sample video for three co-hosts and their upcoming show on Italy”
Most Viewed Weblog Country Category
World Hum Weblog (this week)
* China
Most E-Mailed Travel Story
New York Times (current)
* 36 Hours: Grand Rapids, Mich.
The Google “I’m Feeling Lucky” Button Travel Zeitgeist Search
* “What I did on my summer vacation”
And, finally, a tribute to the Crocodile Hunter
* In honor of Steve Irwin and International Khaki Day, we’ll be flying the khaki today. R.I.P. Crocodile Hunter.
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Gross’s Isaac Newton Moment: Picking Apples in Turkey
by Michael Yessis | 07.13.06 | 7:23 AM ET
Matt Gross, who has been zipping frantically around the world for the last two months writing the Frugal Travel column for the New York Times, slowed down recently to spend four days on an organic apple farm in Beypinar, Turkey. “I couldn’t stand to see another sight,” he writes in this week’s dispatch for the Times. “I had to do something—anything, I had to feel useful.” It turned out to be a great idea. The story begins as a breath-catching trip to a farm, where he gains “muddy palms, scratched calves and an unironic farmer’s tan,” but soon becomes something else: a sweet tale about friendship and brotherhood.
No. 14: “Riding to the Tigris” by Freya Stark
by Frank Bures | 05.18.06 | 12:17 PM ET
To mark our five-year anniversary, we’re counting down the top 30 travel books of all time, adding a new title each day this month.
Published: 1959
Territory covered: Turkey
More than halfway through her 100 years on earth, Freya Stark, the “poet of travel,” headed alone on horseback across the Turkish plateaus to the Tigris River. By that time she had been traveling for decades, mostly in the Middle East, where she had learned Arabic as well as French, Latin, German, Italian and Persian. For her Turkish travels, she threw in Turkish. Stark always stayed in places long enough to write with an insider’s knowledge of a culture. Stark believed in the power of travel and of its capacity to open minds. She once wrote that, “Only with long experience and the opening of his wares on many beaches where his language is not spoken, will the merchant come to know the worth of what he carries.” Stark, who thought the world was divided into two kinds of people, the settled and the nomad, and who climbed Annapurna at 86, was fearless in her traveling. Early on, she abandoned the restrictions of her era for her love of the horizon, which she called “the eternal invitation to the spirit of man.” And while the collection, “Journey’s Echo,” might be a better introduction to her overall work, Riding to the Tigris is one of her finest and most reflective books.
Study Travel Writing off the Turkish Coast
by Jim Benning | 05.06.06 | 12:35 PM ET
Travelers’ Tales Executive Editor Larry Habegger will be leading a narrative writing workshop on a yacht off Turkey this June—what a gig, what a classroom. Travelers’ Tales has details.
Büyük Menderes
by Ben Keene | 02.24.06 | 4:14 PM ET
The Joy of Steam
by Tony Perrottet | 11.03.05 | 10:29 PM ET
Tony Perrottet went for a simple scrub down at the oldest bath house in Istanbul and discovered a link to the ancient Roman Empire
Rick Steves on Radio and iTunes
by Jim Benning | 10.07.05 | 10:12 AM ET
I didn’t know Rick Steves had a new weekly radio show until I clicked onto iTunes. There, on the podcast page, complete podcasts of Steves’ hour-long shows are available for free downloading—26 in all. Topics range from the expected—travel in France, Italy and Ireland—to discussions about Argentina, Cuba and Ecuador. I listened to most of the show about Cuba, which featured an interview with author Christopher Baker, and was impressed.
The Translation of Love and Hate
by Tina Barseghian | 02.21.03 | 8:56 PM ET
Taught to despise Turks, Tina Barseghian didn't know how she would confront her prejudice on a visit to Istanbul. Then she fell ill and met Dr. Alev.
The Critics: “Route 66 A.D.”
by Michael Yessis | 05.03.02 | 10:41 PM ET
In his latest book, Route 66 A.D., Tony Perrottet travels through Greece, Turkey and Egypt along the route that Roman tourists are believed to have taken back in the heyday of the empire. It’s a brilliant idea, and the critics like it. Outside’s Caroline Fraser writes that Perrottet has “a fresh, funny take on this beaten path.” Flak magazine’s Elizabeth Kiem calls it “thoughtful, interesting and absolutelyhilarious.” Check out the first chapter on the Barnes and Noble Web site.
Strip City
by Michael Yessis | 10.10.01 | 8:53 PM ET
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