I’m a Londoner by birth, a cockney in fact from Canning Town originally. Aged 20, I moved ‘up west’ where I lived, worked and honed my office skills & telephone voice. London is and always will be one of my most favorite places in the world and I miss it.
Turkey has my heart. It’s where I lived for 10 years and where I learned all about unconditional love & close knit family.
I love to travel, to see new things, experience new cultures, discover new foods and generally learn more about the planet we live on. I love Turkey and am quite happy discovering all it has to offer. It is vast and there are plenty of interesting places to visit so my wanderlust can be contained within it, for a while. So far, I have been to some absolutely amazing places but……. I’m not done yet!
Other loves include Ancient History (visiting archaeological sites), Food (eating not cooking), Writing (articles, blogs, lyrics, scripts, poetry), Reading (I’m a bibliophile), Music (can’t imagine life without it) and Photography (I’ll shoot anything).
Things I have been called: Shop Assistant, Secretary, PA, Reflexologist, Database Manager, Investigator, Columnist, Editor, Sales Director, Mum
Now I’m an Entrepreneur, Author, Scriptwriter, Complect Coach AND language loving freedom hacker!
Languages I speak: English, Turkish & a little Spanish.
Stupid things I have done:
Gone for an interview as a masseur, believing it to be a genuine masseur’s position (I’m sure you know what I’m talking about)
Fell off a mountain
Turned down tickets for a Bruce Springsteen concert
Last but not least, I’m tall, I’m a Virgo and a Chinese Tiger, Mother Nature is my Goddess and I love trees. My mind goes a mile a minute and I keep a pen and pad by my bed. I’m also very nosy so please, now that you know me, tell me a little something about you 🙂
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Are you registered with Networked Blogs on Facebook? I searched but couldn’t find you site.
Let me know, it’d be great to follow you on FB.
thanks, Jay
Hi Jay, Yes I think so??
Have roamed around your site – liking it a lot 🙂
Just awarded you the Liebster award 🙂 http://cilginkiz-hocam.blogspot.com/2011/09/liebster-award.html
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Hi! Thank you for visiting my blog, and for your lovely comment. Your blog is wonderful. Have a nice week ahead 🙂
Thank you and the same to you 🙂
Thanks for dropping by my blog and for the follow. Blogs like yours keep me inspired to do mine. Keep up the good work! 🙂
Hi Angie,
Thank you for your kind comments. It looks like you have had an amazing 6 years!! Where to next?
Lucky enough to be able to work and travel. Planning to do Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. I’d love to visit Turkey though! 🙂
Lucky you! Sounds amazing and I look forward to the photos and stories. Turkey should definitely be on everyones wish list. It’s a beautiful, quirky country with a photo opportunity and a welcoming glass of çay on every corner 🙂
Thanks, Kym! What you described sounds wonderful and it is already on my list. Looking forward to more of yours too. 🙂
Thanks for the follow here on WordPress Kym. I can’t wait to look through all of your posts.
Than you Angeline. I am enjoying yours and the lovely photos 🙂
Loving your blog 🙂
Thanks Martyn 🙂
I see you are in Almeria? I took my Grandad there for a holiday, gosh must have been around 2002 or thereabouts. Have some great memories of the place and had a fabulous day with him at the ranch where they used to film the spaghetti westerns (can;’t remember the name).
I intend to have a good browse through your photos later 🙂
Thanks for liking my “Grandma Diary- Violin practice” post.
I must say I like what I’ve so far but the thing that put a smile on my face this morning was that you are from Canning Town..
I myself am a Turk that grew in Custom House (so close), just felt nice to ‘meet’ some from the East End of London.
Very close indeed 🙂 I am in Urfa at the minute – I do have internet but I’m having to fight the whole family for a look in!! As soon as I get some time, or when I get back to Didim, I will have a read of your blog – looking forward to it. Nice to connect 🙂
Hi! Just discovered your blog and signed up for it! Am stuck at home in Istanbul with foot in plaster so this is an ideal moment to discover new blogs and enjoy them!
Oh nooooooooo!! A year ago almost to the day, I too had my foot in plaster and went stir crazy!! Really sympathise with you.
Thanks for joining me and wishing you a speedy recovery 🙂
Just love reading your blogs, excellent!
Thank you very much Julia 🙂
Dear turkeywithstuffin,
My name is Joyce and I work for ExpatFinder.com.
ExpatFinder.com is a free one stop website for people preparing to move or working and living overseas. We provide a myriad of services for expatriates and we have over 2,000 articles to help and support the people moving around the world and we are now creating an interview section to help the expats with real life experiences!
We quite enjoy your blog about living in Turkey, it is very interesting and informative. Would it be possible to interview you to further share some of your tips and feature some of your first hand experience as an Expat and your interview will be published on our Expat Interview section as a guide for our expat readers. The questions are mainly about the day to day lifestyle of an expat. If it would be possible, could you also send some photographs that we can use?
Of course, if you accept, we can add a link to your blog or some of your website.
The questions are enclosed, feel free to respond freely. You can return the doc with your answers if you accept this invitation.
Thanks in advance and do let me know if you prefer other means to conduct this interview and we would be happy to accommodate your terms.
Best regards,
Joyce
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