A real mixed bag today
14.10.25
It was surprisingly peaceful by the main road car park in Edirne, we slept well.
I had read about something amazing not too far away in Karaağaç. We had to investigate.
There it was on the side of the main road!



We continued to the historical train station.
We paid an entrance fee that included buildings within the complex.
The first museum was closed. The main train building is now the Trakya art university.
It’s an incredible building.


There’s also an old train. A group of kids were having the best time but I think we had more fun.







After that we visited the small natural history museum. Dead creatures and bones were not on our list of things we thought we’d see today.









There were numerous stlculptures in the grounds, sadly I very often fail to understand them.



This huge memorial momument commemorates the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Lausanne_Monument_and_Museum
The lady in the middle holds a dove in her left hand and represents peace and democracy.
The whole Karaağaç area is just lovely and only a couple of km from Edirne.

John cooked an amazing fry up before we set off for our next destination, Tekirdağ. It was about 90 minutes away.
The free motorhome car park was over run with small caravans, which had the front row view over the sea. They had no room between them to be hooked up and used.
We thought that was really selfish, until John took Maisy for a stroll and was almost sick because of the smell of seaweed that a JCB was collecting and leaving along the shore.
There was litter everywhere.
After a coffee we set off to see what Tekirdağ is all about.



We saw Mimar Sinans Rüstem Pasha mosque – lovely, a fountain – nice, the tiniest çarşısı bazar – hmm and a sprawling ugly shopping area.









By 4pm we decided we just wanted to leave. No way we wanted to stay in that stinky, trash filled car park.
Our plan was originally to set off to Hoşkoy tomorrow, so without any planning or map studying off we went.
We were so surprised to go inland, along tiny lanes and onto the bendiest road.




John kept asking if there was another route.
No, we had no choice but to go up and down the huge mountain which was surrounded by farming land.
We made it to Hoşkoy and parked along the seafront. There were funny looks from all the men sitting watching the world go by.
I’ve a feeling they’ve never seen a motorhome from Fethiye before.
Dinner was fried potato’s, schnitzels and sweetcorn.
We finished watching Madam. It’s left open for a 2nd season. Doubt we’ll bother.
The Internet speed in this village is 150 mbs! That made it so easy for yesterday’s blog.
Night night from cute little Hoşkoy.