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We stayed three nights in Izmir but forgive me for not having taken any quality pictures from the city to show you\u2026\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The reason is I was not in my best mood, because my inguinal hernia started annoying me these days. Of course we strolled by foot in this beautiful city, from Konak – where we found a free camping right next to the ferry station to camp – to Alsan\u00e7ak and from there to opposite Karsiyaka suburb but I didn\u2019t carry my Sony camera.<\/span><\/p>\n That\u2019s why we uploaded this video clip editied by Vula, featuring my Bottecchia MTB on Izmir\u2019s marvellous seafront, nearby Konak.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Smyrna is the symbol of the lost Asia Minor morther land for most Greeks and historically associated with the 1922 pogrom of the Greek orthodox population by Turkish authorities. <\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s also associated with poverty and pain but if you visit the modern day Izmir is an ultra developed city of five million providing top notch living standards for Turkey.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Izmir inhabitants are considered open minded, secular, anti-Erdogan modern entrepreneurs and professionals. In other words it\u2019s a forward looking city we could easily fit. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We stayed three nights in Izmir but forgive me for not having taken any quality pictures from the city to show you\u2026\u00a0 The reason is I was not in my best mood, because my inguinal hernia started annoying me these days. Of course we strolled by foot in this beautiful city, from Konak – where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[276,78,288],"tags":[190,218,222,700,702,696,704,698,656],"class_list":["post-3872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-diaries","category-turkey","tag-aroundtheworld-en","tag-podilatoeu-en","tag-theworldoffroad-en","tag-bottecchia","tag-bottecchiacicli","tag-izmir","tag-mountainbike","tag-smyrna","tag-turkey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theworldoffroad.com\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-20-at-19.16.13.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldoffroad.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldoffroad.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldoffroad.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldoffroad.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldoffroad.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3872"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theworldoffroad.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3884,"href":"https:\/\/theworldoffroad.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions\/3884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldoffroad.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldoffroad.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldoffroad.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldoffroad.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}