So, we had this half-baked plan to catch the 1100am boat from Marmara Adasi to Narli on the mainland. From here we could take a dolmus (we think) or taxi to the town of Bandirma, from where we could catch one of the Kamil Koc coaches to Canakkale, taking 5-6 hours. Bahar had made some…
We had well and truly been accepted into the bosom of our hosts at the Adasu Hotel. The breakfasts were phenomenal, and the hospitality we received here was even more so. One morning, I had to catch up on some emails, so Peter sat in the beautiful flower-filled garden, soaking up the sun. Before he…
After another amazing breakfast at the Adasu Hotel, we hopped on the minibus but this time headed west of Marmara town to the village of Çınarlı . The bus dropped us off in a square lined with huge plane trees. One particularly fine specimen, clearly the daddy of all the Çınarlı plane trees is vast,…
Marmara Adasi has four villages – Çınarlı, Topağaç, Asmalı, and Gündoğdu. Also in the north east of the island is the town of Saraylar, which is the centre of the marble production industry of the island. The bus service will get us to all of these villages so we plucked one out of the hat…
The morning we left Istanbul it was throwing it down. The heat had dropped a little, but the feeling was now one of a steaming sauna. Last night, before returning to our hotel, we had commandeered a taxi driver to pick us up from our hotel this morning – no time for the inclusive breakfast,…