Travels through Cappadocia 2023

Christmas time, so here is a selection on images from a recent trip to Cappadocia, and a grab from a story I wrote about this amazing place a year ago, from a major newspaper.

Wielding his meat cleaver, the charismatic owner and singing chef of the House of Memories restaurant in Uchisar, swiftly decapitates the clay pot and pours out the slow cooked lamb stew. The dish is known as a testi kebab and it’s his speciality,

As he does so an injured three-legged Kangal dog hops by and gazes on in anticipation. These giant Anatolian livestock guard dogs are commonplace here.