Here are some of the women you’ll meet in Turkey when you scan the QR codes in The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Twenty Years Walking the Mediterranean which was published earlier this month and is available on amazon.

A young ballerina practicing near the ruins at Phaselis.

Women waiting at a bus stop near Küçükbuk.

A woman selling fish at a port near Çeşmealti.

Breakfasting with Felice, Semra and Cennet near Iskenderun.
(Photo: Liz Chapin)

Meeting Turkish lips at a spa in Kusadasi.

Refusing a lift near Samandağ.

Accepting a lift near Samandağ.

Discussing politics near Yalikavak.
(Photo: Liz Chapin)

Meeting black-clad Romanian Orthodox nuns in Myra.

Training for a swim across the Hellespont with two Australians from Perth in Çanakkale.
(Photo: Des Baum)

Shopping for a swimming suit in Çeşme.

Shopping for a swimming suit in Taşucu.

Watching a pizza being made by a Turkish woman in Dipkarpaz in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.