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	<title>Ricky Yates &#187; Turkey October 2009</title>
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		<title>Št&#8217;astný nový rok! &#8211; Happy New Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Serbia - Montenegro - Croatia, Oct 2009]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post of 2009, I did promise to start blogging again about ex-pat life in the Czech Republic rather than our October journey to Turkey and back. However, this afternoon, I had a brainwave as to how I could produce a map that I could put online to show our journey. So here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farewell to Turkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After our three nights in Cappadocia, we then began our return journey to Prague. On Saturday 17th October, we drove around 750 km from Ürgüp to the outskirts of Ankara where we joined the motorway that then took us all the way to Istanbul. As we approached the edge of the Istanbul conurbation, the fine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkish women wearing the hijab</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Turkey October 2009]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past fifteen or so years, there has been a marked increase in the number of women from Muslim families living Western societies, who have taken to wearing the hijab or headscarf. This trend, which I have previously observed when living in the UK, was very evident on the streets of Turkey during my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Islamization of Turkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I continue describing and illustrating our journey back to Prague from Cappadocia in central Turkey, via Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia, Croatia again, Slovenia, Italy and Austria, I want to post a more reflective piece about Turkey and the tensions and issues that it currently faces. In many respects these are a microcosm of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cappadocia – The Ihlara Valley</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After an interesting week here in Prague with the events marking the twentieth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, I shall return to writing about our trip last month to Asia and back. The final place we visited in Cappadocia was the Ihlara Valley. This lies about 40km south-west of Derinkuyu and was somewhere I had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Underground City at Derinkuyu</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Turkey October 2009]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because of the soft nature of much of the rock that covers Cappadocia, not only are there Underground Churches but also several complete Underground Cities. One of the most interesting and best preserved is at Derinkuyu in the south-west of Cappadocia, located between the cities of Nevsehir and Nigde. The early part of the Underground [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cappadocia – Land of Underground Churches</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Frescoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Göreme Valley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pantocrator]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Along with Fairy Chimneys, the other unique attraction in Cappadocia is a whole series of Underground Churches, carved into the soft rock. Most have been decorated internally with an amazing variety of wall paintings and frescoes. There are rock carved Churches scattered right across Cappadocia but some of the most interesting and best preserved, lie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cappadocia Landscape</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Turkey October 2009]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remarked in my previous post, that the landscape of Cappadocia in places looks more lunar than earthly! I think the two photographs above give a fairly clear indication of what I mean. The one on the left is a scanned slide taken during my trip in 1975. Unfortunately, the colour of the foreground has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cappadocia – Land of Fairy Chimneys</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early afternoon of Wednesday 14th October 2009, we drove into the town of Ürgüp, located in the central Anatolian region usually known by its ancient name of Cappadocia. Here the landscape in places looks more lunar than earthly! This is the result of eruptions from two or three nearby, now extinct volcanoes, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travelling through Turkey &#8211; April 1975 and October 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Turkey October 2009]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hippie Trail]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have mentioned a few times in describing my recent travels through Turkey, that I have once previously travelled through the country nearly 35 years ago in April 1975. Recognising that the only people likely to be reading this blog who knew me 35 years ago are my two older sisters, I thought a blog [...]]]></description>
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