A flat coastal road

As pointed out yesterday, you might get the impression from a small scale Atlas map of Turkey that the Black Sea coast is flat. It isn't and you can check height metres between Istanbul and Akçakoca from my track on http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=14645. Today though cycling was a little less hard through the Sakarya river delta in the Karasu/Kocaali area with a flat road for about 30 km. We truly haven't had many of those yet! Road conditions are overall quite satisfactory with only patches in disrepair. Tourist infrastructure along this part of the coast is also patchy but obviously developing with colonies of new holiday homes here and there hiding the view onto the sea.
In the more hilly areas large hazelnuts

Traditional rural architecture: Two-storey square shaped houses with barn and stable on the ground floor and hip roof. The timber framework construction filled with tiles reminds of certain areas in Northern Germany.

This is surely not the last image of a sedimentary rock outcrop on this blog.... Viewed from the old Genovese fortress in Akçakoca, called Diospolis by the ancient Greeks.