When ice cream is the goal...
you go to Kahramanmaraş.
You probably take your friends and visit the castle and wash your hands in every old drinking fountain that appears along the way.
After all that (including a small climb on the aforementioned castle) you ask for famous dondurma (ice cream) and eat it using a knife and fork.

And, after a month, you repeat the whole trip. :)

Greetings,
Monika

       1927- Turkey becomes the first country to celebrate Children's Day as a national holiday.

The 23rd of April is a day of celebration, but schools make events earlier- this time it was at Friday 20th.
I had the opportunity to visit one and try different desserts :D, watch children dancing and take a bunch of photos of children.

               Tatlı! (Sweet!)

DIFFERENT DANCES, DIFFERENT INSTRUMENTS, DIFFERENT PERFORMANCES EQUALS

FUUUN!

If children are our future, our future looks colorful!

Greetings from Monika

Keeping up with our project's theme we went to explore more cities and taking advantage of 3 free days.
Here are some pictures of our exploring  :

Tuşucu Beach and seaaaaa <3

Fish cooked directly on the boat

Tuşucu Harbour

Saint Thecla Churh

View from Silifke Castle

Super castle in the sea

strawberry fields :)

Mersin

Street in Tarsus

Tarsus Adana ( Adana is a food that I really like )

So, hope you also had a fantastic week-enddddd

Dan

The week between the 15th-22nd of April is "Gaziantep Tourism Week".
Cultural centres prepared different events for this occasion. Our organisation planned inter alia:

- a traditional HALAY dance, performed by Gaziantep Folklor Kulübü - the children were dancing amazingly, with discipline AND fun at the same time.
This dance is mostly performed at weddings. There is a moment when the young couple dance together, and the man dances solo when he has to show how happy he is to be marrying his woman.

- Aydi Baba performance, lyric and Ney playing

- listening to old vinyl records

- also traditional cuisine and melengic coffee degustation (....melengic kahve....)

Bedriye and Fevzi (here wearing traditional clothes) prepared excellent coffee, I excellently drank three cups :)
Looking forward to the next Tourism Week.

Greetings!
M.

Hey guys I hope you are all okay
.. Just wanted to share some photos from our amazing trip that we took on sunday in a place called Kokluce Canyon.

A little canyon dancing :)

Group pictureeeeeee ! :D

Amazing view

And we had to cross the river of course :))

Hope you liked it and that you also had a fantastic week-end. Take care \ Have fun

Dan 

I said I would post something about Easter Monday.
I acknowledge that Fevzi knows the tradition of Wet Monday as his own. Thanks to this, it was a really fun day for me, and well celebrated.

But how come nobody captured the moment when I sprayed a bunch of water on him?
There was a moment like this... I remember.


On this day, we had also an interesting lecture about photography.
The last instructions were about the technical parameters of digital cameras which are helpful when choosing a new camera.

A slideshow about photographs, taken by Turkish photographer Faruk Akbas, made us both smiley and impressed.

Greetings!
Monika

Hey guys ! What are you up to ?
Today something very special and sweet for you ... The making of a Kadayif.
What is a Kadayif you ask ? Well, I think you have to try it to appreciate it , but here is a little description :)

 Kadayif is a common dessert here,  there are different kinds of Kadayif: Tel ( wire ) or Burma ( wring ), both of which can be prepared with either walnut or pistachio.


So here are some pictures of our own Fevzi preparing such a delicious dessert for us:


Adding some pistachio

Adding some pistachio

 It will look like this after

  Pressing
on it to make it compact

And ready toooo eeeaaaatttttttttttt !

Thank you Fevziiiii !! 

Hope you will try it!

Take care , Dan :)