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Kurdish Textile Museum I

July 18, 2015 · by · in Travel · Leave a comment

I must confess I have little use for fashion or home décor (much to my wife’s dismay occasionally). So a textile museum is not high on my list. In Istanbul I skipped the Turkish carpet museum. In Erbil I went to the Kurdish Textile Museum, not because I was trying to salvage a visit to […]

Erbil Citadel

July 8, 2015 · by · in Travel · Leave a comment

It is very impressive from a distance, not as much when you actually get inside. It has been occupied for about 6,000 years and has been proclaimed a UNESCO world heritage site. I would say it will be worth a visit in about a decade, once repairs and renovations are completed. Nobody lives in the […]