Karen Phillips

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The drama of it all!

I like a certain drama in my environment; I was born in the middle of a thunderstorm and I got married on a beach on the Gulf of Mexico under an end of the world sky full of tornadoes. Some of my earliest memories are…
  • The drama of it all!

My Turkey

Natalie, owner of TurkishTravelBlog.com, sent me an email the other week asking if I would contribute to a collection of photos she was compiling. She wanted images of Turkey from a wide group of resident and travelling bloggers. Particularly she wanted Our Turkey, the image…
  • My Turkey

The Quantum Supermarkets of Chios

We took a day trip to Chios on Saturday just to do a little shopping. There are several Greek islands within relatively easy reach of the Turkish mainland and Chios is my favourite because it is a little more authentic and real than Samos and…
  • The Quantum Supermarkets of Chios

Chestnut and Mushroom Soup with garlic croutons

This is a lovely warming winter soup which has a rich deep flavour and also uses up the glut of chestnuts we have at the moment. I’ve had half a kilo of chestnuts sitting on the windowsill mocking me for the last fortnight and I…
  • Chestnut and Mushroom Soup with garlic croutons

The Olive Days of Winter

Early every morning I wake to the sound of tractor engines coughing to life in the pale pink dawn. They tow romorks full of villagers wrapped in scarves and towels and blankets, vague human shapes of many layers, women and children, families together, off out…
  • The Olive Days of Winter

On the market this week – January 2011

Selcuk market on Saturday was heaving in the bright winter sunlight and it was mid afternoon by the time we got there so between wriggling through the crowds, dodging the camels and bumping into at least three other photographers I didn’t get as many pictures…
  • On the market this week – January 2011

Should I stay or should I go?

A little while ago I wrote an article for HSBC’s Expat Explorer Blog. It’s called “Should I stay or should I go?” and is about the choices we face as expats when our partner dies. You can read it here – Expat Explorer Blog –…
  • Should I stay or should I go?

A Little Light Pool Maintenance

This is a boring entry about swimming pools, there are no soppy passages about olive groves and the light in the valley barely gets a mention, feel free to skip it for prettier stuff. Unless you are a bit interested in pools or are Ian…
  • A Little Light Pool Maintenance

Performance Anxiety

Ever since I had a chap visit and sneer at my neighbours for being “poor and backward” I have had performance anxiety on behalf of the village. To be fair it turned out that the man was recovering (badly) from a brain injury and apart…
  • Performance Anxiety

The Competitive World of Expat Cookery

I’ve just been scrabbling round in the garden looking for a brick. I need a brick (reclaimed, natch) to put in a bag to press the duck terrine I made. It needs to be pressed for two days and allowed to mature. It was a…
  • The Competitive World of Expat Cookery

What’s open in the winter?

This question regularly turns up on holiday forums and message boards – What’s open at this time of year? Now sometimes I get annoyed by it because frankly 68,000 people live in Kusadasi alone and they do eat and they do go outside and play…
  • What’s open in the winter?

An Expat Christmas in Turkey – Part Four

So there it was, Merry Christmas! In the UK it came and went in an icy cube of travel chaos, trembling thaw, bursting pipes and urgent sales that launched upon a midnight clear – let the tills ring out, it’s Christmas! Here in Turkey Christmas…
  • An Expat Christmas in Turkey – Part Four

An Expat Christmas in Turkey – Part Three

I got a little sidetracked from my Dylan Thomas theme here but I wanted to write about the carol service at Maryem Ana because I think it is so special, so it forms part 3 of my Expat Christmas in Turkey. * * * *…
  • An Expat Christmas in Turkey – Part Three

An Expat Christmas in Turkey – Part Two

This is part two of my story of an Expat Christmas in Turkey, where whilst playing with words I try and answer the questions everyone back home asks me about how we celebrate Christmas whilst living in a Muslim country. * * * * *…
  • An Expat Christmas in Turkey – Part Two

Easyjet and Aer Lingus announce new flights to Izmir from May 2011

It was a bit of a blow when British Airways pulled out of the Gatwick Izmir route at the end of the last summer season, not least because I had racked up a serious number of BA air miles (grinds teeth, has minor tantrum, thinks…
  • Easyjet and Aer Lingus announce new flights to Izmir from May 2011
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