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		<title>a close call</title>
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Tom likes to be conservative about leaving plenty of time to get to the airport and it turned out to be a very good thing for us today.
The hotel arranged our ride and ushered us into the van that came, but they sent us to the wrong airport! In a van full of other passengers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>one last day in Istanbul</title>
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What lovelier way to begin our last day in Istanbul than to see a chicken?



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TWO STICKS IN THE GROUND
Istanbul, of course, used to be Constantinople. On the left we have the column Constantine used to mark the founding of the new city. On the right, it’s what remains of the triumphal arch from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Istanbul &#8211; whirling dervishes</title>
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Istanbul was the terminus of the Orient Express, of Agatha Christie fame. The final station was here. Inside were an old car, a piece of the dining car, the old uniform and a wild picture of a train crash. I wonder if the engineers were texting when it happened. 



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		<title>Istanbul &#8211; more old stuff</title>
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One of the nice things about staying in one place for a while (we’re here for 10 days) is that it’s possible to relax and not feel the pressure of being sure to see the “big” sights. So we had a lovely visit at the Little Ayasofia which dates back to the 6th century [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Istanbul, take 2</title>
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Returning from Cappadocia, we returned to the same hotel, but on the other side of the building facing the Sea of Marmara, with the Mediterranean beyond.



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Immediately we noticed a change in the sound of the regular calls to prayer. Before we were almost directly under on the Blue Mosque’s minarets so we got blasted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cappadocia &#8211; an underground city</title>
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Any visitor to Turkey will recognize these evil eyes, which show up everywhere to ward off wickedness and bad luck. More on this later.









The day started with a morning hike through the Rose Valley, full of what you call “rugged beauty.”









Apricot trees, large and small are coming into bloom.









There are more churches to visit in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey: Cappadocia</title>
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Moonscape, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, the Flinstones. These all come to mind in this mind-blowing region in Central Turkey. Successive layers of basalt, iron, copper, sulfur and much softer tufa were laid down by cataclysmic volcanic eruptions millions of years ago. Erosion took its natural course and left behind some spectacular geography, some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Istanbul: Topkapi Palace, the Grand Bazaar &amp; meatballs</title>
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While Istanbul has hundreds of mosques built by the Sultanate over time, there are only a couple of royal palaces. Topkapi Palace was the Ottoman’s home until the mid-19th century. It looks familiar from all sorts of paintings since the Turkish court was a favorite subject. 



 
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It’s one important-looking building after another [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chaosweb.net/2010/02/27/istanbul-topkapi-palace-the-grand-bazaar-meatballs</link>
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		<title>Istanbul: a bad meal, then a good meal</title>
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It was a grey, rainy, miserable morning so we thought we’d be clever and ride a tourist bus around town. Wrong. It was almost unbearably boring. 




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We thought we had something promising when we went to a seaside restaurant with nice fresh displays outside. The bread with a spicy tapenade in olive oil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2 Tourists in Turkey</title>
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There must be something about coming from a very high elevation all the way down to sea level, because we woke up after a good night’s sleep still feeling a little logy. Regardless, food must be eaten and sights must be seen, so off we went. But first, a little maintenance…









Massive monuments were on the [...]]]></description>
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