The trip to Turkey surprised us positively in so many ways! Istanbul is an exciting city and Cappadocia is ... fantastic. And now we already have another trip coming up. Happy Friday!
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An exciting week in Turkey
It was really an exciting trip to Turkey. Istanbul is a bustling and culturally interesting city, and Cappadocia is a city of so beautiful. Plus all the interesting historical sights, all the good food and all the friendly people.
We have been able to tell you a lot about what we saw and experienced in Cappadocia, and there will also be more on the blog in the near future. Here you will find what we have written about Cappadocia so far:
The trip was a press trip, and there are several things we appreciate about press trips. Firstly, you almost always get good guidance and help to find exciting places, and secondly, you get to meet and get to know other travel writers.
On this trip we travelled with a super nice and knowledgeable Turkish guide, as well as nice and lovely Charlotte from the Danish travel magazine. GoTravelling.org. We had a lot of fun together. Of course, we also worked for our travel magazines - the picture shows the group deeply concentrated in the lounge in Istanbul.
At home in the houseboat
Now we are at home in the houseboat in Pampas marina again, and we have so a lot to do. I (Helena) am working right now and doing focus group interviews during the day, as part of an EU project I'm working on. Peter is busy editing films, planning future collaborations and physical magazines, as well as building new collection pages on the blog for all the new countries we have visited...
We also have a lot of new plans for FREEDOMtravel that we're working on! We haven't even had time to unpack... But there's no point, is there? Soon we will be travelling again!
New trip coming up!
So, where are we going now? Well, very soon we are off to Tunisia! We are really looking forward to this trip! We were supposed to travel to Tunisia in March 2020, but the trip was cancelled due to... well, you get the picture!
Now we are finally going to travel, for real. This is also a press trip, and we will be travelling together with a Finnish blogger. Happy Friday!
Best this week
Best this week is fantastic Cappadocia!!! So nice to be able to do some more exotic travelling again, even though we are also really got to know Sweden this year. So, what has been the best part of your week...?
The week ahead
On the blog, you can expect more reports from Turkey and Cappadocia. Maybe we'll also get some more from the Czech Republic, and then, of course, reports from Tunisia will start to trickle out. Stay tuned!
Did you miss the last Happy Friday? Read the Greetings from lovely Istanbul
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Ditte says:
So glad the trip was successful! And Cappadocia is fantastic. Understand that the visit there was one of the highlights of the trip and not least the trip in a hot air balloon.
I have worked in Tunisia for 6 months x number of years ago and was then very fond of the country. How it is today I do not know. I was last here in the late 90s.
Wishing you a nice trip there.
22 October 2021 - 11:06
Helena says:
It was really a good and exciting trip, beyond expectations! Exciting that you have worked in Tunisia for so long!!!
23 October 2021 - 17:32
BP says:
You forgot one advantage of press trips - they don't cost you anything, which I think is very important. Because you wouldn't have stayed in luxury hotels and ballooned over Cappadocia if you had to pay for it out of your own pocket;-)
No need to unpack really, although I guess it's slightly warmer in Tunisia. Have you got contact lenses, Helena? You used to wear glasses.
22 October 2021 - 19:53
Helena says:
Yes, press trips give us the opportunity to travel more and see more places than we would have had the opportunity to do otherwise, and it's fantastic!!! Then we try to be transparent about the fact that we go on press trips when we do, which the newspapers are not at all in the same way 😉 IF we had travelled on our own, we might have lived more simply, but we would never have skipped the balloon trip (not for financial reasons anyway, it would be because of my fear of heights in that case), it is such a once in a lifetime thing 😉
Observant to comment on my lack of glasses! No, I don't have contact lenses, but I do have prescription sunglasses and sometimes I can't switch between the two, and then there are periods without ... In addition, I have to take off my glasses when I check my mobile phone (and I do that quite often ;)) - I don't have progressive glasses ... yet ...
23 October 2021 - 17:39