dear hans,

i am sorry but i dont use gps at the moment. will buy soon tho. actually you dont need gps for Turkiye. the best gps is the people i think. in Turkiye everyone will help you if you ask for the directions and also offer tea, cakes etc.. you may only need gps in big cities like istanbul or ankara.

dear dan (and also for hans),

the roads in Turkiye have ofcourse numbers but no one knows them except the O4 (aka TEM) which is between Ankara-Istanbul and beyond (to Europa) and D100 (aka E5) which is also between Ankara-Istanbul and to Europa. other then these roads, in Turkiye, roads are always known with the city names. ex: there are Konya Road which takes you to Konya from Ankara, same for Samsun Road, Istanbul Road, etc... and on the sign posts you will always see the city names rather then the number of the roads. in the UK the number of the road is important and not the city, but, vice-versa in Turkiye.

btw you can easly cover 350 km/day in Turkiye.. 500 km/day is also doable by bike.. if you push harder 800 km/day is also achievable but no need to that much ride.

i am situated in Ankara but will move to Istanbul in a couple of month to another university.

so, you all have always welcome for free accomodation and/or coffee/.

Hope this hepls..

heve fun..

ps: cozcan, i have sent you a pm last week, did you have time to have a look of it?

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ozhan u.
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