Trips for Ayasofya (Hagia Sophia / St. Sophia)

May 4, 2007. Toronto, Canada. Finally, I set off to Athens for a 23 day trip, alone. Quite often, I had friends asking me the similar questions, "Backpacking? Greece? Turkey? Why?" And quite often, I felt hesitant to answer. "The freedom . …

So, I left Boston last night and arrived in Dublin very early this morning. I had a 10-hour layover before my connecting flight to Frankfurt, so I took a coach into the city and did some sightseeing. I checked out St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin …

The family’s excitement is bubbling as we touched down on Venice Marco Polo airport with the faint view of Venice and its water canals in the distance and it did not disappoint! There is only 1 Venezia with its unique canal structures and gondola …

So the fun part begins...planning. I leave for Italy in 2 weeks and I am super excited, it will be my first time there. When I come home, I want to really get to planning this backpacking trip for next summer. I really want to see as much of …

A leisurely amble through Istanbul for 6 days.

So yeah, lots of stuff to see. yahoo doesn't have the best of 'stuff to do', and everything is kind of in the main cities (read: cairo). some cool stuff, though (horseback by the pyramids at sunset?? hot). oh, also we should plan on a few days …

First time to Greece and Turkey

ISTANBUL -- THESSALONIKI -- OHRID -- SKOPJE -- SOFIJA

Sight seeing and having fun.. On a very low buget. :) On the 26th we drive down to Antaya for a festival and then back home..