Had 3 days to travel around this last week, so I selected to check out one of the big tourist destinations of Turkey and also one of the World Hertiage Sites.
One planning the trip, one of my neighbours who have ridden with before, asked if he could attend. I was completely cool with this, however worried that he may slow me down as I have a nicely set up GS and he has a little Yam, not the ideal tool for the job, but his attitude is that if he keeps up, fine........only inconvenience for me is the frequent fuel stops. I offer to carry his kit in the GS to make life easy for him.
The bikes:
The destination
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cappadocia
We finish work at 2pm and head out, we have 400miles to cover and we plan for this to be before dark......we have 5 to 6 hours. I take the lead with the GPS telling me that we will arrive at 19.30. Sun down is planned for 20.00.... we head into the hills leaving Antalya's heat
Through the mountains in around an hour of pure fun, we drop onto the flat valley floor and start the long road North East...
This goes on for a long time.....only stopping for gas when my partner needs it.
This stop is in the middle of the valley floor, not much around apart from overloaded trucks
and locals coming to fill up their only mode of transport
We push hard, breaking the speed limit (78kph)
frequently! We take 5 hours to reach the destination, it is close to dark and we take a few shots of the welcome, very cosy looking! Houses dug into the mountains.
We find our pre-booked hotel
We are soon ready for a night in Goreme the centre of Cappadocia! We meet Fred and Barney (actually Murat and Mehmet) at the:
We see some more houses built into the rocks
And soon we realise that the "town is one street" and all the tourist are gone for the season.
We find somewhere to relax, things start to slow down....
I will let you imagine the rest........
One planning the trip, one of my neighbours who have ridden with before, asked if he could attend. I was completely cool with this, however worried that he may slow me down as I have a nicely set up GS and he has a little Yam, not the ideal tool for the job, but his attitude is that if he keeps up, fine........only inconvenience for me is the frequent fuel stops. I offer to carry his kit in the GS to make life easy for him.
The bikes:
The destination
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cappadocia
We finish work at 2pm and head out, we have 400miles to cover and we plan for this to be before dark......we have 5 to 6 hours. I take the lead with the GPS telling me that we will arrive at 19.30. Sun down is planned for 20.00.... we head into the hills leaving Antalya's heat
Through the mountains in around an hour of pure fun, we drop onto the flat valley floor and start the long road North East...
This goes on for a long time.....only stopping for gas when my partner needs it.
This stop is in the middle of the valley floor, not much around apart from overloaded trucks
and locals coming to fill up their only mode of transport
We push hard, breaking the speed limit (78kph)
frequently! We take 5 hours to reach the destination, it is close to dark and we take a few shots of the welcome, very cosy looking! Houses dug into the mountains.
We find our pre-booked hotel
We are soon ready for a night in Goreme the centre of Cappadocia! We meet Fred and Barney (actually Murat and Mehmet
) at the:
We see some more houses built into the rocks
And soon we realise that the "town is one street" and all the tourist are gone for the season.
We find somewhere to relax, things start to slow down....
I will let you imagine the rest........
