Pierre Flener's Travel Page
My Travel Publications
I write and maintain various travel-related resources:- My Diary of a Foreigner Living in Turkey (1993-1998) has 7 parts.
- Travelogues on:
- Egypt and Jordan (May 1992)
- Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan (August 1994)
- Iran (July 1996)
- Nepal (February/March 1999) (in Turkish) (by my wife Esra Bayoglu)
- Morocco (December 1999/January 2000) (in Turkish) (by my wife Esra Bayoglu)
- Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan (July 2000) (by my wife Esra Bayoglu)
- Independent travel guides to:
The Countries I Have Visited
I have spent at least one day in the following countries, so I can pretend knowing a little bit about them (the world's nicest places, in my humble opinion, are spelled in pink):
- in Europe:
- Luxembourg: my beloved home-country, in which I have seen literally every corner
- Belgium: I studied in Liège, Namur, and Louvain-la-Neuve, and have been all over the country: Arlon, Durbuy, Spa, Verviers, Brussels, Bruges, Oostende, Koksijde, Wenduine, Blankenberge, ...
- The Netherlands: Amsterdam, Delft, Eindhoven, Maastricht, ...
- France: I have lived for 5 months in Grenoble, and visited Paris, Lille, Toulouse, Marseille, Reims, Metz, Dijon, Lyon, Nantes, ...
- United Kingdom: London, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh, Aberdeen
- Sweden: I live there now, and look forward to exploring this wonderful country, and have seen Uppsala, Stockholm, Lund, Malmö, Ystad, Göteborg, Sundsvall, Umea, and Kiruna so far
- Norway: Narvik, Lofoten islands
- Denmark: Copenhagen, Hillerød
- Finland: Helsinki
- Russia: St. Petersburg
- Estonia: Talinn
- Germany: Aachen, Trier, Saarbrücken, München, Darmstadt, Freiburg, Marktoberdorf, ...
- Switzerland: Zürich, Kandersteg, Interlaken, ...
- Austria: Vienna, Salzburg
- Liechtenstein: Vaduz
- Spain: Barcelona, Sitges; Lanzarote island; Gran Canaria island; Tenerife island: Los Gigantes, Masca, Icod de los Vinos, Garachico
- Portugal: Lisbon, Madeira island: Funchal, Santana
- Italy: Padova, Venezia, Pisa
- Greece: Thessaloniki, Mt Olympus, Meteora, Athens, Patras, Kythira, Crete, Santorini, Rhodos
- Slovenia: Ljubljana, Bled
- Hungary: Budapest
- Yugoslavia: Belgrade
- in the Near / Middle East and Asia:
- Turkey: I have lived in Ankara for 5 years and in istanbul for one year, and have been to many more places than most Turks, namely istanbul, Edirne, Bursa, Eskisehir, Afyon, Emirdag, Ankara, Konya, Karaman, Kapadokya, Kayseri, Amasya, Sivas, Erzincan, Erzurum, Dogubeyazit, Malatya, Mt Nemrut, Kaçkar mountains, Trabzon, Sinop, Inebolu, Amasra, Safranbolu, Kastamonu, Isparta, Egridir, Izmir, Fethiye, Kas, Finike, Olympos, Elmali, Antalya, Alanya, Anamur, Silifke, Antakya, and many many historical sites nearby
- Northern Cyprus: Girne, Gazi Magusa, Lefkosa, Güzelyurt
- Iran: Tabriz, Tehran, Esfahan, Shiraz, Yazd, Mashhad, Neishabur, Gorgan, Ramsar, Rasht, Masuleh, Qazvin, Alamut
- Jordan: Aqaba, Wadi Rum, Petra, Kerak, Amman
- Syria: Alep, Damascus, Maaloula
- Oman: Muscat, Nizwa
- Bahrein: Manama
- Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek, Karakol
- Turkmenistan: Ashkhabad, Tashauz
- Uzbekistan: Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva
- Nepal: Kathmandu, Pokhara, Annapurna National Park
- Indonesia: Bali island, Mt Bromo, Malang, Solo, Yogyakarta, Pangandaran, Bandung (all on Java island), Padang, Bukittinggi, Lake Toba, Medan (all on Sumatra island)
- Singapore
- in Africa:
- Morocco: Marrakesh, Fes, Essaouira, Tanger, Kenitra, Rabat, Casablanca, the High-Atlas region, the Anti-Atlas region, and the Middle-Atlas region
- Spain: Lanzarote island; Gran Canaria island; Tenerife island: Los Gigantes, Masca, Icod de los Vinos, Garachico
- Portugal: Madeira island: Funchal, Santana
- Egypt: Cairo, Aswan, Luxor, Hurghada, Dahab, Mt. Sinai
- in the Americas:
- USA: I have been a visiting student at Duke University in Durham (North Carolina) for a year, and have been all over the country, namely North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, California, Washington, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, ...
- Mexico: Mexico-City, Palenque, Merida, Chichen Itza, Tulum, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Oaxaca
- Guatemala: Tikal, Livingstone, Guatemala-City, Antigua, Lago Atitlán
- Belize: Belize-City
- Venezuela: Caracas, Isla Margarita
- Peru: Lima, Arequipa, Puno, Lago Titicaca, Cuzco, Sacsahuaman, Machu Picchu
- Bolivia: La Paz, Potosí, Sucre, Cochabamba, Tiahuanaco
The Countries I Most Urgently Want to Visit
- India, Tibet, Bhutan, Pakistan, Afghanistan
- Ethiopia, Eritrea, Yemen
- Tadjikistan, Kazakstan, Mongolia, west China
- Iraq, Lebanon
- Algeria, Lybia, Tunisia
- Myanmar (Burma)
- Australia, New Zealand
- Brazil, Argentina
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