Glorious gateway to Thrace Edirne

Tucked away in the far northwest corner of Turkey is the lovely small town of Edirne, a place that tends to get overlooked by visitors intent on the typical two-week loop tour of the country. But it wasn't always this way. In the 1970s Edirne was very much a fixture on the overland routes from northern Europe to Turkey and points east. Then came the Iranian revolution, which shut down the old hippy trail and the... [read full story]