{"id":471,"date":"2014-12-28T00:43:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T00:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/?p=471"},"modified":"2014-12-28T00:43:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T00:43:09","slug":"on-to-ankara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"On to Ankara!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2014-08-09<\/a>For the flights from Vienna to Istanbul to Ankara, I did not have the best of luck. My first flight was delayed by almost 4 hours, I missed the connection, and stood in line for several hours in Istanbul trying to get re-booked. When I finally got my new flight, that one was delayed by several hours, so I didn’t arrive in Ankara until the early morning, about 4am. I got on a bus into the city and then into a confusing taxi ride where we could not understand each other, since not a word of English was spoken. I finally made it, and all was well!<\/p>\n

I was in Ankara for a beautiful wedding, and the bride took such good care of me, even taking me around the city the day before her wedding! For lunch, I was spoiled with the following:<\/p>\n

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Rak\u0131, the anise-flavored national alcoholic beverage<\/p><\/div>\n

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Afterwards, I rode the metro with a friend of the bride’s and was given a brief tour of Ankara, including the Ankara Castle. It was once under the control of the Romans and Byzantines!<\/p>\n

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The castle had great views of the city, and was lovely at sunset. As the sun went down, you could hear the call to prayer and the chants reverberating cross-town:<\/p>\n

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For the flights from Vienna to Istanbul to Ankara, I did not have the best of luck. My first flight was delayed by almost 4 hours, I missed the connection, and stood in line for several hours in Istanbul trying to get re-booked. When I finally got my new flight, that one was delayed by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}