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I’m blank. It’s been a difficult month and I don’t feel like explaining. But I want a new post, so here are some pics from my last trip to Mersin, Aug 20-30 2009.
Breakfast at a little place up in the hills outside Mersin. Sat Aug 22. It was a really good typical turkish breakfast. Total 30tl for two people.
Emrah looking over the scenery. I forget the name of the place, outside Mersin. Gözde maybe.
A big cavernous hole in the ground at Cennet Cehennem (Heaven and Hell). I think this hole was hell.
These pics are a bit out of order. This is from another cavernous hole in the ground at a place called Kanlidevani, which means something like “bloody crazy”. Apparently people were sent down into the recesses as punishment.
Emrah eating keci boynuzu (carob bean) which is supposedly an energy/aphrodisiac source. He’s got a wild look in his eye.
Climbing the ancient stonework over large pits in the ground. First E,
Then me. I walked up and down a bit more cautiously than he did.
He likes climbing around old ruins.
And then snacking afterwards. Kavurma is one of his favorites, and I rather like it too.
Inside the Cennet (Heaven) hole in the ground was an old Christian church. Behind the church the hole in the ground (green, with trees etc) becomes a real cavern.
We also spent a lot of time at the beach. This was at a place where we rented a tent and slept overnight.
Between the last post and this one, besides this difficult month, I also spent a lovely six weeks at home with my family. Hopefully things will look up again soon.
Randall Thomas said,
January 20, 2010 @ 3:29 am
It’s been a while. I like the idea of you making a life on the Bosporous, and I’m sorry I couldn’t be what you expected. You look happy, and it makes me happy. People should never expect more of others than they do of themselves. My sister (Crystal) is taking my mother to Istanbul for her 75th birthday, to see the markets, and eventually to cruise the islands between Turkey and Greece. Every once in a while I think about life without scrabble, and I think of you as you are now, immersing yourself in another culture, tasting, smelling, seeing and hearing a different part of the human race. What are you feeling?
I have locked myself into fractured worlds; working for Rick (my brother) at juice creative inc. as a factotum (setting up files, putting in my 2-cents worth on the creativity, finalizing files and uploading to printers) and spending 25% of my time away from Cosmo & Reilley on tv gigs.
I have been to Ecuador to climb the volcanos (Cotopaxi yes, Chimborazo no … too bad, since it’s the farthest point from the centre of the earth), and flown, driven and walked to the highest point in Mongolia near the nexus of Russia-China-Mongolia, and ridden away on Mongolia horses with Ghengis Khan whispering in my mind.
I still struggle with the day-to-day mundanities, and wonder if somehow, by moving elsewhere, I would be free of it. But I realize my heart won’t let me move until Cosmo and Reilley have passed on. The Himalayas speak to me.
I’m really just saying ‘hi’, but I want you to know you have made a difference.
Be at peace, Rebecca; be safe and warm and free.
Your friend, r&all