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Hamamlar caddesi no: 35 -37, Cekirge Bursa, Bursa, Turkey

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Turkish adventures continued

A travel blog entry by lghemphill

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... my father again and again as I picked up an old hammer or level, as he collected antique tools. We had a standing joke about my finding a Perfect Handle tack puller for him at tag sales throughout the years -- Perfect Handle was the manufacuring company -- and while I always looked for him, I never found the elusive tool (and I'm not sure he ever did, either, other than at an antique tool show, which didn't count. I didn't buy any tools of course, but ...

Semazen (Sufi 'Dance' Tradition)

A travel blog entry by ejbeyer

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... to see the sweat pour down and whip off their chins, but nothing touched these guys, they had far too much concentration. Something I found remarkable was that, after perhaps 30 minutes of spinning ceaselessly, at the drop of a coin they stopped, their arms curled around their hips, and their long robes folded like a stage curtain and dropped almost simultaneously. It was impressive.

Two of the dancers we watched ...

And from hijabs to burqas

A travel blog entry by bebabui

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... on being called Pierre Double Kemal. Mustafa then went into military school and graduated with high honours as a captain.

During the war, the sultan at the time relinquished power to the military so that the country could be properly defended. After the famous battle of Gallipoli, Mustafa became quite famous for his intelligence and his ability to strategise. When the war was lost, the country was divided and parts were “given away” ...

As It Should Be

A travel blog entry by ejbeyer

... or destiny, rightness or wrongness, and so many others. Not to confuse, I mean to convey what emotions this sewed in me when I heard it, without such a discussion on the aforementioned evocations.

Perhaps the main question my soul formed was one of purpose. Why did I come here? What exactly is it that I am looking for? Over the past 7 months, these have been answered in kind, and questions today remain, as they should. What ...

Bursa's 15th century Green Mosque & Green Tomb

A travel blog entry by momentsintime

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... Noticing the appearance of goose bumps on my skin due to the cool wind breeze, with the sun’s arrival, things were about to change I told myself with a cheerful grin.

After breakfast and since I had a good half an hour of leisure before departure time, I wandered around the hotel’s exterior grounds with Michel as my very own private ...

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