Hot Air Ballooning in Cappadocia (Getting High on Christmas Day) from Asha and Ryan on Vimeo. We decided to spoil ourselves on Christmas day (also Ryan’s 30th birthday) and take a hot air balloon ride over the jaw dropping landscape in Cappadocia, Turkey. We were staying in a cave hotel in the...

Kambol Kart Raceway on the outskirts of Phnom Penh – its as close to MarioKart as I’m ever likely to get.  As you can see – we start off pretty slow, but those lines get tighter and speeds faster as the day progresses.  It sure felt fast anyway. It’s taken a bit of nagging from...

Skiing Adventure #1 – The Mt Erciyes Mistake Who even knew you could ski in Turkey?  I had no idea you could, but we were after a winter adventure, and the promise of fresh snow, cheap lift tickets, and mountains largely unknown to most travellers seemed like a promising adventure. We booked into...

The best decision we made during our trip to Turkey was to visit Cappadocia  - although it didn’t seem that way on the drive from the Kayseyi airport to Goreme.  On a freezing winter morning, the outskirts of Kayseri took on a depressingly Soviet feel.  Empty streets, save for the odd hunched...