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Waiting For A Plane XV – Security at Ataturk
Airports can be dehumanizing, and probably nothing in an airport is more dehumanizing than the security screening process. Empty your pockets. Take off your belt, your watch, and your shoes. Put everything on a conveyor belt to be fed into the x-ray machine. While that is happening step through this arch. It buzzed? Get patted […]
Waiting For A Plane XII – What Time Is It?
I have rarely been more confused. I spent almost half a day uncertain what time it was. The Internet let me down, which just goes to show you can’t always trust what you see online. As the plane taxied to the gate upon our arrival at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport the pilot made the routine […]
Waiting For A Plane XI – Between Flights at Ataturk
I rarely fly, but these days when I do it seems like I’m always at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport waiting for a connecting flight. The wait seems like forever. As with most airports, there’s not much to do at Ataturk except shop, and even that gets pretty boring. There’s only so much Turkish Delight a person […]
Mystery Sign
My translation software says the sign reads “Picnic Notice.” That leaves me confused. The sign is just a few metres away from the Buyukada Orphanage (see yesterday’s post). Who is it that I am supposed to call? And am I calling to say I want to have a picnic, or to report someone who is […]
Buyukada Orphanage
I wrote about visiting one of the Princes Islands in Istanbul, and my interest in the abandoned building at the top of the hill. I recently discovered there is more to the story of that abandoned orphanage than what I learned on the trip. It has fairly recently been part of an important court case. […]
Istanbul at Night III – Random Photos
Just a few pictures to close off our tour of Istanbul by night. After spending three days in the city I couldn’t decide if I liked it more than Rome – and if not then it is a close second when it comes to favourite European cities!
Istanbul At Night II – Hagia Sophia
I wrote about my feelings regarding the Hagia Sophia, the church converted to a mosque and then to a museum in a series of posts about a month ago. I just realized that the photos I posted were all from the interior. It really is a beautiful building architecturally also, especially at night, so I […]
Istanbul At Night
Just a few photos taken around the Blue Mosque. Today I’ll let the pictures do the talking.
Yoros Castle
Castles come in different varieties. There are those well preserved that you can tour and marvel at all the furnishings and décor from centuries past, seeing how people used to live. And there are those that are nothing more than ruins, leaving everything to the imagination. Yoros Castle in in ruins. It sits at the […]
Hagia Sophia III – Looking Around
Just some random pictures taken at the Hagia Sophia to give you a bit more of the flavour of the place. I am a big fan of digital photography, though I admit mine was a forced conversion: my beloved Canon FTb camera, which I had owned for more than 20 years, was stolen a few […]
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