Comments on: Last week in Asia, well almost. http://www.theworldjog.com/blog/?p=7296 tony mangan - ultrarunner Tue, 23 Feb 2016 23:27:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Tey EngTiong http://www.theworldjog.com/blog/?p=7296#comment-23617 Tey EngTiong Wed, 04 Jun 2014 10:24:33 +0000 http://www.theworldjog.com/blog/?p=7296#comment-23617 Tony: Glad u almost go in Europe,keep it up with strong spirit and run safe ! Tey Malaysia Tony:

Glad u almost go in Europe,keep it up with strong spirit and run safe !

Tey
Malaysia

]]> By: theworldjog http://www.theworldjog.com/blog/?p=7296#comment-23613 theworldjog Wed, 04 Jun 2014 05:32:13 +0000 http://www.theworldjog.com/blog/?p=7296#comment-23613 Hi Tom. Yes it was beautiful, just like rest of Turkeys countryside, so beautiful. I sent you an email on Christmas morning you may remember. I just recognized your website. Very informative! It was question a about Uzbekistan! Thanks for encouragement. Have a nice trip and keep in touch Tony Hi Tom. Yes it was beautiful, just like rest of Turkeys countryside, so beautiful.
I sent you an email on Christmas morning you may remember. I just recognized your website. Very informative! It was question a about Uzbekistan! Thanks for encouragement. Have a nice trip and keep in touch Tony

]]> By: Tom Smith http://www.theworldjog.com/blog/?p=7296#comment-23609 Tom Smith Tue, 03 Jun 2014 17:04:53 +0000 http://www.theworldjog.com/blog/?p=7296#comment-23609 Tony, it was a pleasure to meet you coming the other way the morning you left Hacihamza. I hope you enjoyed the mountains of Turkey - I didn't know it at the time, but I was just leaving them when we met. I got a picture of the mosque you talked about, and put it on my journal here... http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/page/pic/?pic_id=1920174 Best of luck with the European leg - I will be following! Tom Tony, it was a pleasure to meet you coming the other way the morning you left Hacihamza. I hope you enjoyed the mountains of Turkey – I didn’t know it at the time, but I was just leaving them when we met. I got a picture of the mosque you talked about, and put it on my journal here… http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/page/pic/?pic_id=1920174
Best of luck with the European leg – I will be following!
Tom

]]> By: theworldjog http://www.theworldjog.com/blog/?p=7296#comment-23499 theworldjog Fri, 30 May 2014 05:42:08 +0000 http://www.theworldjog.com/blog/?p=7296#comment-23499 Thanks everyone. 48km Thursday. Yes am very very tired, more that at any stage of the run. Re johns question. It has always been high security. Even when I went through on my bicycle in 1978 I was not Allowed. Today cyclists don't even discuss it they all just take a ferry across. Can't help feeling it makes the Turks feel so important. Remember I had a small problem with the Panama Canal bridge which was sorted out with a phone call. The bridge is over 3km long and I am not a decent swimmer. Don't think that would be allowed either. There is another route but I would have had to go way way south in Turkey I studied it on Google maps and estimated a 200metre swim. Can't remember name of that town. But I am here now. This was one of the reasons I first hesitated about running Turkey you may remember. My other route was through the Crimea and Russia! I wonder if I had gone that way would I have taken off the road by the Russians, I think so. I am surprised Turkey is not more open to the west. I need to be careful what I say in blog but am starting to believe current reign is not pro European Union. Perhaps they may prove me wrong. Thanks everyone. 48km Thursday.
Yes am very very tired, more that at any stage of the run. Re johns question. It has always been high security. Even when I went through on my bicycle in 1978 I was not Allowed. Today cyclists don’t even discuss it they all just take a ferry across. Can’t help feeling it makes the Turks feel so important. Remember I had a small problem with the Panama Canal bridge which was sorted out with a phone call.
The bridge is over 3km long and I am not a decent swimmer. Don’t think that would be allowed either.
There is another route but I would have had to go way way south in Turkey
I studied it on Google maps and estimated a 200metre swim. Can’t remember name of that town. But I am here now. This was one of the reasons I first hesitated about running Turkey you may remember. My other route was through the Crimea and Russia! I wonder if I had gone that way would I have taken off the road by the Russians, I think so.
I am surprised Turkey is not more open to the west. I need to be careful what I say in blog but am starting to believe current reign is not pro European Union. Perhaps they may prove me wrong.

]]> By: john clarke http://www.theworldjog.com/blog/?p=7296#comment-23495 john clarke Thu, 29 May 2014 20:39:27 +0000 http://www.theworldjog.com/blog/?p=7296#comment-23495 i know its a stupid question but if you cant run/walk across bosporus bridge,is it possible to swim across ? i know its a stupid question but if you cant run/walk across bosporus bridge,is it possible to swim across ?

]]> By: Ann http://www.theworldjog.com/blog/?p=7296#comment-23494 Ann Thu, 29 May 2014 19:03:47 +0000 http://www.theworldjog.com/blog/?p=7296#comment-23494 Hope Erok gets a favourable response about crossing the bridge, you must be exhausted not taking any rest days for so long, take care of yourself -:) Hope Erok gets a favourable response about crossing the bridge, you must be exhausted not taking any rest days for so long, take care of yourself -:)

]]> By: kevin scanlon http://www.theworldjog.com/blog/?p=7296#comment-23479 kevin scanlon Wed, 28 May 2014 22:27:31 +0000 http://www.theworldjog.com/blog/?p=7296#comment-23479 great update tony. hard to believe the eu is so close. fingers crossed for the bridge crossing. talk soon, kevin great update tony. hard to believe the eu is so close. fingers crossed for the bridge crossing. talk soon, kevin

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