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Turkey tour 1
... city Heirapolis, which is apparently where Cleopatra kicked about for a bit, and also st. Phillip the apostle kicked about and was eventually killed by the Romans. It has a massive cemetery gladiator tombs in it and all sorts of others. Also it has the gate to hades (hell, or the afterlife), where you walk in and toxic fumes from the mountain bubble out and hiss, apparently people use to, back in the day, go in and trip out and talk nonsense and supposedly tell the ...
Endings
... 8217;t see myself coming back to Georgia in the future. I did not connect with the land and the places; but I did connect with the people. I am so thankful for all the friends I’ve made - Georgian and non-Georgian - for opening their hearts to me and making me feel welcome and comfortable in a strange, new place.
I had my second horseback riding lesson which was a lot of fun...but hot, and began saying my goodbyes to my students - ie: telling them I ...
Istanbul op een andere wijze benaderd (1)
... voor ons open als we na een heerlijke slaap en een stevig ontbijt de stad in gaan. We zitten dus in het Europese gedeelte bij een groot aantal high lights binnen handbereik. Op weg naar het Topkapipaleis komen we langs het archeologisch museum, waar veel schatten tentoongesteld staan van landen die door de Turken in de afgelopen eeuwen zijn over heerst. Het ...
At the Boarder of Europe and Asia
... parking garage. We al loaded into a big Renault passenger van and speedily wove through the city to our hostel. We met with ostel guy, had tea nad coffee, and decided on what activities to do on Sat. And Sun. We left the hostel on foot in search of food and fun. We crossed bridge to S. Istanbul. People around a fire built on the bridge. Fishermen on the bridge. Gauntlet of restaurateurs. South of the city, at least in the area where we were, things were already closed ...
Churches and Mosques.
... to back that up. It's certainly the oldest one I've ever heard of. It reminded me that the early church was well-functioning in Turkey (Ephesus and Galatia, for example), and even though this church was built a couple hundred years later, it made me feel connected to that. At least until I get to Ephesus.
In the 1450s, it became a mosque when Turkey went back to being Muslim, from the Christian Byzantine Empire. ...
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