The guidebooks advise the future pilgrim to learn as much Spanish as possible before beginning your Camino to Santiago de Compostella. Always enthusiastic to work on my Spanish, I went from speaking horrible Spanish to just bad Spanish. The Camino de Santiago entices people from all over the world to make the pilgrimage to Santiago…
Once you’ve paid for your Topdeck Turkey Explored Tour, make sure you consider what else you will be required to purchase. With only breakfasts and five dinners included, food will be a large portion of your extra cash budget. This breakdown can also help those who decide to travel solo around Turkey. If you are on…
If you’re planning a whirlwind trip to Turkey, or after some inspiration for where to go and what to see/do you are on the right page. Often when you travel, you experience and see many amazing things. Sometimes though, there are things you feel you could have skipped and spent more time elsewhere, or even saved some money…
As an Australian the Gallipoli Peninsula has great significance and is where stories of the ANZAC spirit and our education about war begins. From an early age we learn about the young ANZAC’s (Australia and New Zealand Army Corps) bravery and comitment. These young Australian and New Zealander’s, many under the legal age to go…
After visiting Ephesus the day before, my appetite for more ancient ruins was ripe. Others however in the group had no desire to see any further ruins on the trip. Day 10 of Turkey Explored is another long bus day visiting both Pergamon and Troy on the way to Canakkale (our gateway to Gallipoli). With…
