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I was fortunate enough to enter 2026 in Tokyo, Japan, while returning from Roppongi to our rented house in Koto. One of the best things I’ve done since 2017 is to keep a short summary of goals for the year at the beginning of each one. You can reach the posts I’ve written since 2017 on my Annual Journals page. Before I start writing: I…

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Of course, what set me off on this nearly 2.5-month journey wasn’t just these videos—but the videos you’ll watch here were the ones that especially coincided with my high school and university years. Back then, there weren’t many people you could really call travelers. A world tour, in my eyes, was something massive, and I didn’t even have 1% faith that I could ever do…

**Publication date of this article: May 4, 2025** If anyone follows this blog, they should know: in three months I’ll be turning 32, and in the meantime, next Friday, May 9, 2025, I plan to set out on a long journey (at least 3+ months), inshaAllah. Of course, there are many variables—whether I can actually set out, whether I can stay more than 3 months,…

First, let me explain what I’m basing this post on. In the summer of 2017 we put together a 15-day Interrail trip, and I came back having spent a total of just €25, all in. I’ll try to write up how that happened. The Interrail Ticket — TAÇ Sponsorship Our first step in this Interrail journey came in early 2017 with a contest run by…

In this post I’ll walk through how I got a Schengen visa. Three of us friends were planning an interrail trip between July 1–12, starting from Italy and looping through Switzerland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. One thing to keep in mind: get your Schengen from the country you’ll enter first. I haven’t personally tried getting one from a country other than the entry…

In this post I’ll cover both what we did in Trabzon and what you can do if you head there yourself. We flew to Trabzon in December 2017 with my friend Enes Beşinci. We booked the round-trip on Turkish Airlines. Having an airport makes getting in and out really easy. The airport isn’t far from the city centre either. Of course, a taxi will hit…

If you ask how and where this journey came about, we can actually say this friend’s video was the source of inspiration. Then, after about 5 hours of research on what it’s like and how to do it, we formed a team and set off. And this journey was going to be another adventure for us. Initially, saying what should we do, how should we…

A new road, a new adventure. The campers are on the camp road again. Some of you may remember our last camp. Those who don’t can take a look here. This time our destination was Yalova. We set out for Yalova’s Erikli Plateau. We started our journey Saturday morning around 6. We took the metro to Yenikapı and from there crossed to Yalova by IDO…

We’re on a long, narrow road, going day and night — and we found ourselves at the seaside of San Francisco with a Golden Gate view. Let me say up front: this America and Silicon Valley trip was my dream, and I have a list called 27 before 27. On that list, item 16 was the Silicon Valley journey. If you have questions like “What’s…

I think it was Sunday, I don’t quite remember. It was a sunny day, and while sitting at home, Esat and I started thinking about going out for a stroll. We had been wanting to go to the islands and ride bikes for a long time. To make this happen, we got up around noon, got ready, and hit the road. We made a few…

“Something Different” on a World Tour. What is this “something different” thing? Actually, it’s something really beautiful. It’s something that came about when two engineer friends resigned from their jobs and embarked on a world tour that would last 13 months. These friends are Özcan BOSTANCI and İsmail ÖZGER. In fact, the website they launched about their journey, baskaturlubirsey.com, is the icing on the cake….

I want to tell you about a YouTube channel featuring Koreans who live in Korea but speak Turkish. At one point, I was really wrapped up in Korean culture and K-dramas. Back in 2012–2013, I watched around 60 to 70 Korean dramas. Because they are typically single-season shows, the count managed to get that high. Since I enjoyed the dramas so much, I eventually branched…

The other day, I saw a friend’s photos in America. I said to myself, I wonder why he went? I also occasionally saw him in work clothes. Both in America and working? Then I realized the whole thing was Work And Travel. Work and Travel, or WAT for short, is where you go in the summer, work in America for 2.5 months, and in the…

The part we call Istanbul consists of the historical peninsula. 105 video clips were shot by wandering around Istanbul continuously for 13 hours. This video was prepared using 64 of these 105 video clips. The video was shot with a Canon 600D, and 18-55mm and 50mm lenses were used. The shooting was done by Burak Bayram and Furkan Çınar. The video editing was carried out…

With the announcement of Youth Bus 5, my dreams and projects fell through, but apparently, they would have fallen through even if I had won. Thinking it would be in two parts, I was saying I would go with the second group, only to find out that there was no such thing as a second group 😀 But what can we say, have a good…

Finally, the day of the meeting had arrived where we made it into the final 637 out of 43,000 people, and we were heading towards Ankara. I was going from Kütahya to Ankara, and my friend Furkan was going from Istanbul to Ankara. Finally, the bus arrived in Ankara. I took a quick walk around. Then I grabbed my phone and called Furkan. He had…

I recently got acquainted with the Youth Bus when a friend shared a video on Facebook. In fact, I want to share the video my friend shared with you too. Honestly, when I saw this video, I didn’t quite believe it, not gonna lie. Who is going to take whom around 15 countries and 28 cities, provide accommodation, and feed them, and apparently they even…

Today I went around Eminönü for some reason, and I saw that they had set up a place like a Korean house in Sultanahmet, and a rather large museum made of models in Korean architecture towards the New Mosque (Yeni Camii). When I say a model, it’s a structure built right on the huge street. Anyway, you’ll understand what the inside is like when I…