Category Turkiye
Its a matter of inches
Istanbul 5 Day, day four for Pete, who had recovered somewhat from Mustapha’s revenge, and went out to compete in the sprint event at the Technical University Campus. Another interesting drive out on the coach. Now these are not you small tourist buses but your big long haul rigs. Mercedes 6 wheelers, 48 seaters, how […]
Ilze’s No. 2 post
Saturday, (probably 3rd November but I’m not sure) and we are just back from the 4th day of orienteering in the Belgrad forest just outside Istanbul. Amazingly I managed to complete the first three events, but today it was too hot, too steep, too prickly and I was too tired, and I didn’t finish. It’s […]
I Don’t Wanna Talk About It
Two hours. Four controls found. Bailed after failing to find no 5. DNFed. I certainly wasn’t the only one either. Only about 2/3 of the field have completed all 4 days. Ian is the sole survivor in the Australian camp after Ilze also DNFed and Pete was not well enough to compete. Ian did quite […]
Nanna’s post for Marissa and Ella
Thursday 25th October The airport bus which collected us at our door at 6.15 pm, and we arrived at the airport in plenty of time and checked in. What do we do now – it’s 2 ½h ours till departure. We found a nice comfortable bar and enjoyed a G & T, and then went […]
Australians continue to bleed on Turkish soil
We moved to a whole new continent for day 2’s middle distance event, crossing the Bosphorus and into Asia. We are claiming a new record for DROC jackets – the furthest point east in Europe, and the furthest point west in Asia – simultaneously as we reached the half way point of the bridge (more […]
Don’t Pay the Ferry man
Being bussed to the Orienteering events in large tour coaches has many advantages. As we proceeded over to Asia for day 2 of the Istanbul 5 day we were determined to improve our performances and the early portents were good as several new club records were set. Ilze and I had earlier attempted a new […]
A fall in the 5th at the Hippodrome
Wandering home after dinner in a sprinkle of rain, I took the outside running on the chariot track approaching the bend near the obelisk for the first time. My eye was taken by the full moon over the minarets of the Blue Mosque and as Ilze went for the whip, the finishing post being in […]
Orienteering in Belgrade Forest
Today we had to change mode from sightseeing tourists to elite sports people (well ok forget the elite part). Time to dig out the spikes, gaiters, compasses (thanks to our Melbourne friends for lending us northern hemisphere ones) and SI sticks. Pete and I had to be at the event site by 9am to take […]
The Vengeance of a Mad God
Istanbul 30.10.12 Our first full day out and about in Istanbul showed it to be the result of the mixing of many cultures over several millennia. We “did” the Blue Mosque early to beat the queues and found it as superb as oft reported. Walked several side streets and admired the queue for the Aya […]
Bosphorus Cruising
We cast a wary eye to the skies this morning but they were blue and benign so it was off to catch a ferry up the Bosphorus. This used to be the public ferry run until they realised that all the tourists were catching it because it was so much cheaper than the private cruise […]
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