Kastamonu’s İzbeli Konak
Kastamonu
The Black Sea still retains its mystique, thousands of years after Xenophon’s men retreated towards it, shouting, ‘the sea! the sea!’. A wildly hostile coastline, with hardly a harbour to speak of for a thousand kilometres, and the most astonishing of hinterlands.
Hire a car from Istanbul and drive all the way to Batumi!