What can I even say?? The pictures say it all.. :)

Olives..

Cheese shop at a Bazaar in Izmir, Turkey.

Although it's popular all over the world, the traditional version is very different and really delicious!!

Çiğ köfte. This was one of my favorite Turkish dishes. It's a flat bread roll with a paste made from meat, tomatoes and spices, fresh lettuce, lemon juice, and Tursu.. Amazingly delicious!!

This was in the older part of Izmir, and old building with a typical wooden balcony..

Sirinçe is also famous of it's fruit wines. Mustafa Yilmaz sells some of the local specialities in a quaint little shop in Sirinçe. He was telling us that he is well known in the fruit wine circles and they call him "Einstein"..

The summer house of my friend. Near Izmir, Turkey.

Inside the Church of St John the Baptist in Sirinçe near Izmir, Turkey

Dinner cooked by my host's mother!! :)