Pat Yale

When she first visited Turkey as a teenager in 1974 Pat Yale could have had no idea that, years later, she would be returning there to live in a restored cave-house in Göreme in Cappadocia. For many years she was a guidebook writer for Lonely Planet and other publications specialising in Turkey. Then by chance she stumbled upon the eleven or so visits made to Turkey by the British explorer, archaeologist and author Gertrude Bell and set out to recreate those travels on her own lengthy journey across the country from İzmir to Cizre and back again via Diyarbakır and Hasankeyf to istanbul. After almost two decades in Göreme, she now lives in İstanbul.