{"id":3201,"date":"2016-07-09T21:42:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T18:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/?p=3201"},"modified":"2016-07-09T21:42:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T18:42:56","slug":"cappadocia-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/?p=3201","title":{"rendered":"Cappadocia Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

We<\/strong> took a few days off for a long weekend, again traveling to the Cappadocia area.\u00a0 We stayed at the place we stayed last time because of the beauty of the hotel and the good man who runs it.\u00a0 Halil.\u00a0 We discussed him before.\u00a0 So we didn\u2019t do as much traveling around the area this time, because we just wanted to sit and relax and enjoy Halil\u2019s company.\u00a0 \u2026 and I purchased a few more rugs again, much to the consternation of my wife.<\/p>\n

I love the architecture of the place, hoping that wherever we retire, it will have the same stone buildings we see here.\u00a0 The best I can do, is post a mess of pictures with a few comments.<\/p>\n

Pictures of the hotel inside and out.\u00a0 Some of these may have been in the earlier post.\"IMG_3443JPG\"<\/a> \"IMG_3442JPG\"<\/a> \"IMG_3447JPG\"<\/a> \"IMG_3444JPG\"<\/a> \"IMG_3441JPG\"<\/a> \"IMG_3440JPG\"<\/a> \"IMG_0529JPG\"<\/a>\"IMG_3449JPG\"<\/a>… And the food!\u00a0 Below is Terese breaking open a pot of lamb stew that was slowly cooked over a period of two hours.\"IMG_0515JPG\"<\/a>\"IMG_0516JPG\"<\/a>And the resultant dinner!\"IMG_0519JPG\"<\/a> \"IMG_0521JPG\"<\/a>And the last meal we had there.\"IMG_0534\"<\/a>And a nice relaxing afternoon.\"IMG_0491\"<\/a>I love rugs.\u00a0 There is a certain satisfaction being in a rug shop that is actually inside of a cave.\"IMG_3510JPG\"<\/a> \"IMG_3514JPG\"<\/a> \"IMG_3521JPG\"<\/a> \"IMG_3519JPG\"<\/a> \"IMG_3517JPG\"<\/a>Terese deciding she didn’t like the one they displayed.\"IMG_3512JPG\"<\/a>And a pic of Murat leaving to find more rugs he thought we may want to look at.\"IMG_3513JPG\"<\/a>Notice in the three next images.\u00a0 They are of the same rug, but seen from different sides.\u00a0 100% silk.\"IMG_3524JPG\"<\/a> \"IMG_3523JPG\"<\/a>\"IMG_3525JPG\"<\/a>Nearby is a building that is well known because a TV series was filmed there about a decade ago and people still come by to see it.\u00a0 Like the house where “Dallas” was filmed.\u00a0 I show it here because I like the architecture.\"IMG_0508JPG\"<\/a> \"IMG_0506JPG\"<\/a> \"IMG_0503JPG\"<\/a>Some of the local residents of the hotel.\"IMG_0498JPG\"<\/a> \"IMG_0484JPG\"<\/a> \"IMG_3448JPG\"<\/a>On the way home we stopped in a little village that takes alabaster and creates beautiful items with it, along with some incredible ceramic bowls, etc.\u00a0 First is the good gentleman who is working the grindstone.\"IMG_0524JPG\"<\/a>\"IMG_0525JPG\"<\/a>And last, but certainly not least, is a picture of Halil with us.\u00a0 He has decided we are now family.\u00a0 I told him I will inform my Dear Mother that she now has another son!\u00a0 He was most appreciative.\u00a0 I sincerely wish we had more time to travel there and visit.\u00a0 Perhaps we will since it is only about a three hour drive.\"IMG_0540JPG\"<\/a>MotherDear, meet your new son, Halil Elalan.\u00a0 And for the rest of you, it is still possible to fly into Turkey avoiding any area you are concerned with and we will pick you up at the airport near Cappadocia and can spend time there with Halil and drink the local wine and relax in an area unlike you have ever been before.<\/p>\n

Next, I will post some wonderful pictures of a city in the SE of Turkey.\u00a0 A city called Gaziantep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We took a few days off for a long weekend, again traveling to the Cappadocia area.\u00a0 We stayed at the …<\/p>\n

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