A beautiful view of the mosques in Istanbul.
I hope you enjoy the next week or so of blog posts because I won’t be able to update them much since Jill and I will be in Turkey and Greece.
We leave today and return on August 15th so we will be gone for exactly one month.
We have been in China, non-stop, for 7 months and are extremely excited to get away and have some peace and quiet.
Istanbul will be busy but we will be hanging out with friends, and some family, and just enjoying it for the first week.
Trust me, compared to Beijing, nothing is busy and anywhere is quiet.
Jill has been to Turkey three times and I’ve been there once so we have some familiarity with it and the people.
We have always loved going there and meeting with people who are very open and friendly.
We will start, and end, our trip in Istanbul.
We are going to go to Cappadocia and do a balloon ride through the Fairy Chimneys.
Then to Pammakule to see the perfect blue waters and natural white thermal pools.
We are also going to other parts of Turkey but those are the highlights.
We will then go to four different islands in Greece including Naxos, Paros, Santorini and Mykonos.
We will spend about 3 days on each island and Jill will be able to celebrate her 41st birthday on Naxos.
Last year she celebrated in China and we think this is a very nice way to celebrate Jill.
Who knows where we will celebrate her birthday next year? The world is our oyster!
We will head of Athens for two days and see the sites and then head back to Istanbul to finish off our trip and grab our flight back to Beijing on the 15th of August.
I’ll do my best to post a few pictures of our travels and hope you enjoy them.
I’ll be doing more full blog posts when I get back to Beijing and have time to sort through everything and figure out what I want to write about regarding our trip.
Here are a few pictures from Jill’s past visits to give you an idea of what we will be seeing and doing when we arrive in Istanbul.