In Cappadocia, the thrill of hurtling along a trail on two wheels is amplified by its otherworldly landscape of rock pillars, known as "fairy chimneys", many reaching more than 40 metres high, as well as its cave houses and ancient Byzantine churches.
She recalls asking the question, "among the brick chimneys: 'When will I see my parents?'", and the hollow mirth that greeted it among those in her berth.
The local hot-smoking technique is the reason why many old fishing cottages on the island have unusual pyramid-shaped chimneys.
"They can be rude, people see them as arrogant, they talk loud and smoke like chimneys in non-smoking areas".
The great vertical windows, for example, which run up the western elevation like a trio of crystal chimneys, were replaced in 1947.
I remember The Three Chimneys on the Isle of Skye (Colbost, Dunvegan, 01470 511258, threechimneys.co.uk), where the langoustine and crabs and oysters from the sea lochs beyond the windows seem to have leapt from the chilly water straight on to the plate.
Boyle's Isles Of Wonder spectacular – with its rising chimneys, its fiery, forged Olympic rings, its bouncing children on NHS beds and its airborne Bond girl Queen – had barely finished before it had become a byword for a new approach, not only to British culture but to Britishness itself.
Mrs Fantlova's account of life in Auschwitz is as searing as any, for its descriptions of the "showers"; the lashing with whips; hunger, rations and imagined feasts – and the chimneys, forever smoking.
How many chimneys does Santa go down?
The chimneys of paper mills spew white smoke into the slate-grey sky; the air smells as acrid as ever.
Moored barges bob against the dark exhale of factory chimneys.
