{"id":115,"date":"2019-09-14T07:51:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T07:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/?p=115"},"modified":"2019-09-14T08:11:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T08:11:07","slug":"photo-gallery-1-london-to-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/14\/photo-gallery-1-london-to-istanbul\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo gallery #1: London to Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sweden,\nGermany,Holland, Belgium, France, England, France, Belgium,Germany,\nAustria, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Helen drives!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

These photos can\u2019t\ncapture all of the change I\u2019ve seen through the van window. The landscape has\ngone from manicured green fields, spindly planted trees and the Rhine river of\nBavarian Germany to Europe\u2019s last wild forests and\nCarpathian mountains of Transylvania, from the rolling sunflower\nfields and Black Sea coast of Bulgaria to the dry rocky mountains of central Turkey.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Germany<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bulgaria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Turkey
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The clothes, attitudes and food change with each border crossing \u2013 Germany\u2019s sausages and dark bread;\u00a0Bryndzov\u00e9 halu\u0161ky,\u00a0the dense potato dumplings with sheep\u2019s milk cheese in Slovakia; the goulash and grilled cheese in Budapest; the cabbage salad and peasant soup in Romania; the mezzes and thick bread in Turkey. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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German beer!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Slovakian potato dumplings with sheep cheese<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Romanian cheese<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve seen German dirndls, Romanian head scarfs pulled tight and knotted on women, small brimmed Romanian felt hats on men, men\u2019s Turkish caps pleated trousers and the Turkish women fully covered in hijab and jilbab . Languages, streets signs (Bulgaria uses the Cyrillic alphabet), driving mannerisms, smiles and scowls, currency, prices, toilets, weather\u2026. everything changes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Grocery shopping in Turkey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In Romania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Romanian market deli shop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And there is still so\nmuch more to come! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

P.S. I have just discovered that Facebook has changed it so you must have an account to view these photos. You don\u2019t need to be my friend as I\u2019ve made them public, but you have to sign in. Sorry about that. I will post them here soon for those of you not on facebook. Click here for the photos! \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sweden, Germany,Holland, Belgium, France, England, France, Belgium,Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey! These photos can\u2019t capture all of the change I\u2019ve seen through the van window. The landscape has gone from manicured green fields, spindly planted trees and the Rhine river of Bavarian Germany to Europe\u2019s last wild forests and Carpathian mountains of Transylvania, from the rolling sunflower […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_0444.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}