words : rest, relax, redesign
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Hi, good news! Some new pages on this site are photos that are finally getting uploaded (I can hear cheers from the bleacher seats). For those who don’t know, I’m back in the US for a couple months of R&R before returning to Istanbul after Thanksgiving. More than just R&R, this has been an opportunity to catch up on a lot of loose ends that were just left dangling for about eight months because I was too busy working to tend to them. Current Thoughts: how to have a sane and healthy life when I return to Turkey (time for email and yoga) · crazy dangerous christian zionists · buying a new mac (waiting for leopard, and a paycheck) Current Read: Time and Again, by Jack Finney. A man from modern day New York is sent back to New York of 1882. Will he want to return to the 20th century? Photo: peonies, Naples NY, in summer. |
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vegetable truckThe vegetable sellers come around in trucks, park for a while and move on. Sometimes there’s a bit of trouble with the “moving on” part, when the streets are so narrow.
morning sunevery now and then, it’s possible to get a picture of Istanbul that looks calm and clean. A rare moment.
rooftop viewThis is the view from the roof of a hostel I stayed at for a few weeks in April 2006, in Tunel. The view is looking south across the halıç (golden horn). Suleymaniye Camii (mosque) is in the left background. I’m guessing that’s Fatih Camii on the far right.
Topkapı SarayıTopkapı Palace as seen from the Istanbul Modern museum, across the mouth of the golden horn.
me at Istanbul ModernA rare decent photo of me, so put it in! Photo taken by Emrah. It was his first (and probably last) visit to the modern art museum.
jenney on stairsIstanbul is a very hilly city (it is called Seven Hills but I think there are lots more than that). In some areas, they solved the steepness problem by building lots of stairs. These stairs are on the most direct path from my apartment down to the Bosphorus (on a clearer day, you could tell that there’s water past that red roof). I climb these stairs a lot (yes, down AND up). This day, Jenney and I are going exploring together.
The wallChina has a great wall, but so does Istanbul. It is a massive, several-mile-long wall built in a semicircle around the old city of Istanbul as a protective barrier. You can still walk the wall from one end to the other, and find it in various stages of disrepair and restoration.
the wall 2Unfortunately, you can also find lots of garbage. Turks haven’t picked up on the anti-litter idea yet.
gateA massive gate in the wall.
Fatih streetSome houses on the streets of a poorer section of Fatih (a district of Istanbul known for very conservative religious practice), right next to the wall.
Fatih CamiiFatih mosque, as seen from the top of the wall.
Bustly streetA street scene of Istanbul, with the setting sun shining on the hills behind. Just a pic to show that not everything in this city is old. It’s rather bustly.