Notes from the road — faith, heritage and the Türkiye behind the guidebooks.
We added a November departure because the demand was there. Then we found that the demand was two different markets wearing the same clothes, separated by a document nobody prices into a lead time.
We are taking thirty people to Erciyes in December and half of them have never been on skis. The enquiries that produced that number were not asking about price. They were asking for permission.
Nine hours and thirteen minutes of daylight on the shortest day, four to eleven degrees, and a wind that cancels the Bosphorus boats. What winter in Istanbul actually does to a programme — and why we still sell it.
Travellers plan forwards, from what they want to see. Operators plan backwards, from what is shut. Almost every itinerary anyone has ever enjoyed was shaped by a closure the visitor never heard about.