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The Seat of Ottoman Power
... Sultan and his family. The Janissaries were famous for their military skills but also controversial because they were staffed by youth conscripted from Christian families and forcibly converted to Islam. Eventually the Janasaries became so strong and powerful that they were perceived as a threat to the Sultan himself and were eliminated in a mass slaughter.
We first visited the Harem which is accessed through the Second Court that has a beautiful park like setting. ...
Özbekistan
... some delicious Özbek foods for a few days, we were off to Samarqand. The old Silk Road city is glorious. Huge buildings in beautiful detail in various states of preservation or decay used to pop out of densely-populated working-class neighborhoods. Now those neighborhoods have been demolished, and a wide pedestrianized street has been built in a curving line from one historical monument to another, flanked by flash Western-style ...
A Pleasant Ride to Istanbul...Well, Sort of!
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The flight to Istanbul was pleasant n luxurious. The plane arrived in Istanbul at 10:40 am on Friday, I think, eh. Ya cudda see the picture of the city outside the plane window. My friend, Jack C. had gone there and told me about his marvelous time there. If I had a few days of explorin' the city, I wudda. I love travelin' and sightseein'. Anyhoo, we had to take downstairs from the plane, not the terminal dock like we normally do. I took ...
The Markets
... to use the internet was driven by a requirement to get accommodation in Abu Dhabi. Before leaving Australia we had got this booked and confirmed, and paid for! Just a day out of arriving there we had an email saying they were overbooked and we'd get a full refund. Naturally there were some very sharp emails sent to them but we weren't getting anywhere so just had to find an alternate.
We had planned for a really nice last ...
Ottomans and All the Men, Part II
... than me, and looking way, way down at the little ants we call people scurrying down below, could I only begin to grasp its size. It was big.
But enough about the building itself, I must share with you a little about my own visit to the building. You’d think a visit to a museum (opened to the public and no longer a mosque in 1934), especially one that was formerly a church, I would be in some sort of sanctuary. I was not. I dressed in my normal attire, more so ...
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