When I travelled from Thessaloniki to Istanbul I went on a highway that goes through a very mediterranean-looking scenery with a coast alongside a pretty mountainous zone, most cities there are small historical ones but right when I've passed the border and entered Turkey there was such a drammatic change: I've passed to a pretty arid steppe where you often encounter some very clean, dollhouse-looking houses once in a while (mind you: I'm talking about the European side of Turkey, I've never travelled to the Asian part so I don't really know how it looks like but I'm curious about visiting it one day), what about yours?