The 1975 picture was taken in April (northern hemisphere Spring) but inevitably the colours of the original slide have faded though you can still see fresh green growth behind the fairy chimneys. The 2009 photo was taken in mid-October (northern hemisphere Autumn) just before the arrival of Autumnal rains. A few days after I took this picture, whilst we were in Istanbul, very heavy rain did arrive and I guess if I’d taken the picture a couple of weeks later, the background would have been far greener.

I’ll take your last sentence as a compliment though the English is somewhat interesting.

Thank you visiting my blog and leaving a comment. Please forgive me for not thinking of my nephew who would also remember me from 1975.

I’m sure I had picked up a bit of an Australian accent after living there for nearly 5 years. One of my memories of that time When I returned to the UK was thinking what awful West Midlands accents your Granny and mother had!!!

As you can see, I do still have the slides from the trip. One thing I want to do in the near future is get them all scanned onto a CD before the colour fades any more.

I remember you from 1975. In fact I remember you from before you went to Australia. I still have a couple of books that you kindly sent me from Hobart.But sadly I no longer have the letters you wrote.

I remember when you returned to England and gave us a slideshow of your journey from Kathmandhu. I remember how you had developed an Australian accent which seemed very exotic. I remember how excited I was at the thought of seeing you again – five years is a long time in the life of an eleven year old.

Tim

Pete – welcome to the blog and I’m glad you’ve learned something about fairy chimneys in Cappadocia. They are a quite remarkable phenomenon. In answer to your question, the size difference which you have observed, is purely due to the slight difference in angle that the two pictures were taken from.