Worldwide Foreign Travel Club

Tag: Turkey

  • November 21 | Cruising from Istanbul to Athens, including Troy, Ephesus, Rhodes, and Crete; by Larry & Ruth Martin

  • Summary | 2017 Presentations

    • Trans-Siberian Railway (Mongolia, Russia); Charlie & Diane Jacobson | Dec 21
    • Cats Around the World; John & Judi Higbee | Dec 7
    • The Bahamas; Dr. Sidney Soclof | Nov 16
    • Adriatic Balkans (Albania, Montenegro, Boznia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia); Sally & George Sonnichsen | Nov 2
    • Switzerland (3 scenic trains) and Rhine River cruise to Amsterdam     (Netherlands); Mark & Renee Moore | Oct 19
    • Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Helsinki, Finland; Robert & Marilyn Paluszak| Oct 5
    • Turkey (Ephesus), Slovenia (Llubljana), Croatia (Split, Omis),      Switzerland (Zermott, Bern, Interlaken); Dianne Zalewski  | Sep 21
    • Kenya and Tanzania; Larry & Bev Wehrheim | Sep 7
    • Transatlantic Cruise x 3; Jerry Loomer & Judy Holleran | Aug 17
    • Caribbean Islands; Charlie & Diane Jacobson | Aug 3   
    • Aruba, Curacao, Bonaire, Grenada, St. Lucia, Fr-Martinique, Barbados, Tobago (Trinidad & Tobago) , Devil’s Island (Fr-Guiana) , Colombia; George & Sally Sonnichsen | Jul 20
    • Peru (Machu Picchu and Lake Titicaca; Ed Hibner & Barb Krasiecko | Jul 6
    • Italy, Anacapri; Robert & Marilyn Paluszak | Jun 15
    • Algeria, Rwanda (Gorillas), Cuba; John Higbee | Jun 1
    • Mediterranean Cruise, Istanbul to Barcelona; Ed Hibner & Barb Krasiecko | May 18
    • Italy; Diane & Charlie Jacobson | May 4
    • South Africa (Safari); Ed Hibner & Barb Krasiecko | Apr 20
    • Tunisia (Two years with the Peace Corps); Terri Kuzma | Apr 6
    • Annual Social:  Ireland | Mar 12
    • Madagascar; Sally & George Sonnichsen | Mar 2
    • The Castles of the Loire Valley, France; Mike Mocella | Feb 16
    • Antarctica; Bev & Larry Wehrheim | Feb 2
    • Cruising the Baltics (Berlin, Germany; Estonia; St. Petersburg, Russia); Jerry & Judy Loomer | Jan 19
    • Nanavut Territory, Canada (International Air Rally to Baffin Bay); George Erickson  |  Jan 5

  • February 6 | Turkey; Scott & Suzanne Duncan

  • Summary | 2016 Presentations

    • Bucharest to Budapest River Cruise (Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary); Ed Hibner & Barb Krasiecko | Dec 15
    • Spain: Andalusian Coast; Dianne Zalewski | Dec 1
    • Russia, South Korea, China, Vietnam (Pacific Rim Cruise); Allen Menke | Nov 17
    • No meeting | Nov 3
    • Argentina:  Patagonia and Buenos Aires; Phil Goldsmith | Oct 20
    • No meeting (Hurricane Matthew) | Oct 6
    • England; Sally & George Sonnichsen | Sep 15
    • World Cruise, Experience of long-term cruising; Charlie & Diane Jacobson | Sep 1
    • No meeting | Aug 16
    • World Cruise, Highlights from six-month cruise; Charlie & Diane Jacobson | Aug 4
    • Australia, New Zealand, Fiji; Ed Hibner & Barb Krasiecko | Jul 21
    • Bolivia; Sally & George Sonnichsen | Jul 7
    • Ecuador & Amazon Rain Forest; Ed Hibner & Barb Krasiecko | Jun 16
    • Tibet (China); Henry Kling | Jun 2
    • India’s Golden Triangle; Bev & Larry Wehrheim | May 19
    • Israel (3 weeks, Army base); O’Dwyer | May 5
    • Australia (Western, Central); Sally & George Sonnichsen | Apr 21
    • Turkey (Istanbul); Michele Lupowitz | Apr 7
    • Tanzania; Bonnie Hanna | Mar 17
    • France: Provence; Mike Mocella | Mar 3
    • Japan; Yori Okuda | Feb 18
    • Norway: Coast; Frank & Joan Kraft | Feb 4
    • Poland; Robert & Marilyn Paluszak | Jan 21
    • Turkey (Eastern); Judi & John Higbee | Jan 7

  • Summary | 2015 Presentations

    • Malta; Charlie & Diane Jacobson | Dec 19
    • Annual Social: China
    • World Cruise Part II, Malaysia to NYC; Aline & David Sullivan | Nov 19
    • World Cruise Part I, NYC to Singapore; Aline & David Sullivan | Nov 5
    • Three Rivers:  China, Russia, Egypt; Frank Kraft | Oct 1
    • Indian Ocean:  Seychelles, Maldives, Sri Lanka; Judi & John Higbee | Oct 15
    • France: Normandy, Loire Valley, French Open; Scott & Suzanne Duncan | Sep 17
    • Southern Australia; Bev & Larry Wehrheim | Sep 3
    • Germany, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Austria; Ed Hibner & Barb Krasiecko | Aug 20
    • Barbados & The Caribbean; Dianne Zalewski | Aug 6
    • Turkey; Charlie & Diane Jacobson | Jul 16
    • Antarctica, Southern Chile and Argentina; Ellen Cora | Jul 2
    • Norway; Charlie & Diane Jacobson | Jun 18
    • Iran; Sally & George Sonnichsen | Jun 4
    • Australia and New Zealand; Jerry & Judy Loomer | May 21
    • Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia; Ed Hibner & Barb Krasiecko | May 7
    • Tuscany (Central Italy), France and England; Yori Okuda | Apr 16
    • Day Trips from Sorrento, Italy; Scott & Suzanne Duncan | Apr 2
    • Slovakia; Dianne Zalewski | Mar 19
    • Île-de-France (Not Paris); Mike Mocella | Mar 5
    • China; Mary Zarse | Feb 19
    • Egypt; Ed Hibner & Barb Krasiecko | Feb 5
    • Georgia; Sally & George Sonnichsen | Jan 15
    • No meeting | Jan 1

  • Summary | 2011 Presentations

    • North Atlantic and Baltic Sea; Espi & Ian Walmsley  | Dec 15
    • France (French Alps) and Switzerland (Geneva); Robert & Marilyn Paluszak |  Dec 1
    • Montenegro: Kotor; David Sweet  /  Nov 17
    • Argentina: Buenos Aires, Iguazu Falls, to Antarctica; Ed Hibner & Barb Krasiecko  |  Nov 3
    • Tanzania:  Photo Safari, Trekking and Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro; Charlie Jacobson  |  Oct 20
    • Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Belize: The Route of the Maya;     Sally & George Sonnichsen  |  Oct 6
    • Spain: Costa del Sol; Robert & Marilyn Paluszak  |  Sept 15
    • Ecuador: Galapagos Islands; Charlie & Diane Jacobson  |  Sep 1
    • Antarctic and South Atlantic Islands; Gary & Marlee Babic  |  Aug 18
    • Touring Europe by Auto (Benefits of European Pick Up Plan); Robert & Marilyn Paluszak  |  Aug 4
    • Myanmar (Burma); Sally & George Sonnichsen  |  Jul 21
    • Cuba; Dick Chady  |  Jul 7
    • Arctic Cruise:  Amsterdam to NYC, via Scotland, Faroe Is., Iceland, Greenland and Canada; Barb Krasiecko & Ed Hibner  |  Jun 16
    • Three Ancient Mediterranean Capitals; Frank Kraft  |  Jun 2
    • New Zealand;  Bev & Larry Wehrheim  |  May 19
    • South Pacific, French Polynesia; Papeete, Tahiti and the Cook Islands; Charlie & Diane Jacobson  |  May 5
    • Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and China; Tom & Kathy Fenosoff  |  Apr 21
    • Annual Social: Greece |  Apr 7
    • Safari Trip to Southern Africa: including Nambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Cape Town, South Africa; Larry & Sally Jepsen  |  Mar 17
    • The Silk Road:  Western China and the Hunza Valley, Pakistan; Sally & George Sonnichsen  |  Mar 3
    • Thailand (Bangkok) to Vietnam;  Tom & Kathy Fenoseff  /  Feb 17
    • Iceland;  Butch & Bonnie Hanna  |  Feb 3
    • Scandinavia and Russia, Land Tour; Ed Hibner & Barb Krasiecko  |  Jan 20
    • UAE (Dubai), Turkey (Istanbul) and Italy (Rome); Robert & Marilyn Paluszak  |  Jan 6

  • Summary | 2010 Presentations

    • China and Thailand (Bangkok);  Barb Krasiecko & Ed Hibner  |  Dec 16
    • Indonesia:  Java, Bali, Lombok;  Sally & George Sonnischsen  |  Dec 2
    • Eastern European Cities;  Frank Kraft  |  Nov 18
    • Rio (Brazil) to Santiago (Chile), South America;  Ruth Wigle  | Nov 4
    • Indonesia: Flores and Borneo; Dragons and Orangutans; Sally & George Sonnichsen  |  Oct 21
    • Africa:  Capetown to Senegal (including Benin, Gambi, Ghana, Namibia, Togo); Charlie & Diane Jacobson  |  Oct  7
    • Social: A Taste of Wines from Around the World at ABC Liquors  |  Sep 23
    • Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar; Barb Krasiecko & Ed Hibner |  Sep 16
    • Cities of the Baltic Region:  Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm, Skagen; Frank Kraft  |  Sep 2
    • India: Bangalore to Mysore and Kerala (Wildlife Refuge);  Robert & Marilyn Paluszak  | Aug 19
    • Northwest Africa:  Cabo Verde, Canary Islands (Spain), Madeira (Portugal), Morocco and Ceuta (Spain); Charlie & Diane Jacobson | Aug 5
    • Turkey (Istanbul) and Black Sea; Frank Kraft | Jul 15
    • Adventure in the High Arctic:  The Circumnavigation of Spitzbergen;     George & Sally Sonnichsen | Jul 1
    • Israel; Allen Menke | Jun 17
    • India:  New Delhi to Pushkar, Jaipur and Agra by car; Robert & Marilyn Paluszak | Jun 3
    • Vietnam to Cambodia: Saigon to Chau Doc by car; water taxi on the Mekong to Phnom Penh; Robert & Marilyn Paluszak | May 20
    • Grand Tour of Europe:  A Taste of England, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and France; Barb Krasiecko & Ed Hibner | May 6
    • Thailand and Cambodia:  Angkor Wat and The History of the Khmer Empire; Bev & Larry Wehrheim | Apr 15
    • Iceland, Greenland (Denmark), Newfoundland (Canada): Following the Path of the Vikings; Diane & Charlie Jacobson | Apr 1
    • Social:  China Buffet | Mar 19
    • Bicycling Around the World; Jacky & Ward Budweg | Mar 4
    • Jordan; Frank Kraft | Feb 18
    • South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana; Pat Cronenberg | Feb 4
    • Singapore and Malaysia (Genting & Cameron Highlands);  Robert & Marilyn Paluszak | Jan 21
    • European River Boat, Christmas Markets;  Walt & Arlene Pietras | Jan 7

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  • Summary | 2009 Presentations

    • Christmas Around the World: A sharing of member photos and memories | Dec 17
    • Kenya and Tanzania; Jerry Sundin | Dec 3
    • Australia; George Erikson | Nov 19
    • Russia:  Palaces of St. Petersburg; Frank Kraft | Nov 5
    • Turkey; Ed Hibner & Barb Krasiecko | Oct 15
    • Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro: Dalmatian Coast; Kevin & Patty Vogt | Oct 1
    • Train Trip:  Munich (Germany), Salzburg (France), Innsbruck (Austria); and Switzerland;  Martin & Rosemary Geoskowitz | Sep 17
    • Panel Discussion:  How to turn photos into a presentation; Charlie Jacobson, Robert Paluszak and Judy Mitchell | Sep 3
    • Cambodia; Cheryl Seyfert | Aug 20
    • Greece: Cruising the Greek Isles; Ed Hibner & Barb Krasiecko | Aug 6
    • Guyana (ECOtourism); Charlie & Diane Jacobson | July 16
    • Borneo; Suzann Sports | July 2
    • Australia:  Blue Mountains and Great Ocean Road Drive; Robert & Marilyn Paluszak  | June 18
    • Tahiti: Papeete (French Polynesia) and the South Pacific; Frank Kraft | June 4
    • Egypt: Nile River; Frank Kraft | May 21
    • Antarctica; Jerry Sundin | May 6
    • Galapagos Islands (Ecuador); Claire Andrews | Apr 16
    • Trip Around the Ancient World, Part II; Pat Cronenberg | Apr 2
    • Social:  Spring Fling, a Hula Luau, Lake Miona Center | Mar 19
    • True North and Back to the Barrens, Canada; George Erickson | Mar 5
    • Trip Around the Ancient World, Part I; Pat Cronenberg | Feb 19
    • Cook Islands and Fiji; Robert & Marilyn Paluszak | Feb 5
    • Copper Canyon, Mexico; Sue Scipsone | Jan 15
    • No meeting | Jan 1

  • Summary | 2020 Presentations

    • No meeting | Dec 17
    • France: The Unknown Notre Dame (Paris); history, architecture and iconography; Mike Mocella | Dec 3 | Zoom
    • No meeting | Nov 19
    • The Falklands (UK), A long way to go to fight a war; Dr. Sidney Soclof | Nov 5 | Zoom
    • No meeting | Oct 15
    • UK Narrow Boats, Al Brown; and Freighter Voyage across the Pacific, Robert & Marilyn Paluszak | Oct 1 | Zoom
    • No meeting | Sep 17
    • France: The Walled City of Paris — then and now; Mike Mocella | Sep 3 | Zoom
    • No meeting | Aug 20
    • Four lesser known European cities: Meteora (Greece, George Sonnichsen); Lucca (Italy, Scott & Suzanne Duncan); Zaragoza (Spain, Charlie & Diane Jacobson); and Ghent (Belgium) by Robert & Marilyn Paluszak | Aug 3 | Zoom
    • Norway: Adventure in the High Arctic: The Circumnavigation of Spitzbergen, A prior talk revisited; George Sonnichsen | Jul 16 | Zoom
    • Launch of the new wwftc.com and Rob’s Favorite Travel Websites; moderated by Robert Paluszak | Jul 2 | Zoom
    • France: Burgundy; Mike Mocella | Jun 18 | Zoom
    • Travel Tips, Stories and General Q&A | Jun 4 | Zoom
    • History of the Panama Canal; Dr. Sidney Soclof | May 21 | Zoom
    • No meeting | May 4
    • No meeting | Apr 16
    • No meeting | Apr 2
    • No meeting | Mar 19
    • Annual Social: Poland | Mar 8
    • No meeting | Mar 3
    • Uruguay; Dr. Sidney Soclof | Feb 20
    • Turkey; Scott & Suzanne Duncan | Feb 6
    • France: NE Alsace-Lorraine; Mike Mocella | Jan 16
    • Traversing the Panama Canal: Charlie & Diane Jacobson | Jan 2

  • September 21 | Turkey (Ephesus), Slovenia (Llubljana), Croatia (Split, Omis), Switzerland (Zermott, Bern, Interlaken); Dianne Zalewski