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Five Days in Antakya & it’s Pudding Time ! Discovering new places to eat and local food specialties is always an important element of mine and Ben’s travel anywhere & Antakya is definitely a ‘foodie town’. Antakya’s amazing mix of Turkish, Lebanese, Arabic and French influences offer the most delicious repertoire of local speciality dishes. I have to admit to being a bit of a ‘pudding person’ and the discovery of the famous Hayatalı Dondurması dessert was an absolute revelation ! Lebanese in origin , it is a shocking-pink layered pudding of ice cream, salep custard and rose water. The...

You just can’t go to Turkey, without being staggered by the presence of Atatürk 

Awwww, you know what @littleseasidehouse ..... you are so clever !

Inspired by our trip to the market in Gaziantep last autumn and the village market in Üzümlü where we used to live