Hotel Sokullu Bursa

Istiklal cad 20, Inegol Bursa, Bursa, Turkey

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And from hijabs to burqas

A travel blog entry by bebabui

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... ie. No beer to be found except the hotel’s, which costs 5-6 times the store price. I mean they charge $6 for a can of Cola, ridiculous!) I jump into the pool, which is heated at 32 C, along with my Aussie Silence of the Lambs star, while Pierre keeps an eye on me to make sure I don’t drown of contentment, and after dinner, we take a leisurely walk. It’s lovely outside, the sky is clear, the moon is three quarters full, there’s a ...

The Joy of Teaching

A travel blog entry by ejbeyer

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... in the past. We spent the time covering prefixes and suffixes, which are a fantastic thing to learn at any level, as they open the door to thousands of words and the potential to understand yet thousands more.

As we ran through the differences between mono-, tri-, and multi-, I introduced the prefix bi- via the word "bisiklet," Turkish for bicycle. As she made the connection, silently, from previous examples of "monolingual" and "multinational," ...

The charming little Cumalikizik Village

A travel blog entry by momentsintime

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... iron gates. Looking at the old crooked tombstones, some of which laid flat on the ground as if forgotten with time, I wandered freely, curious about the village’s ancestors. The grass was quite high while a few budding flowers desperately tried to pierce through the small patches of snow.

It was 10:00am when we left Cumalikizik encountering along the way ...

Bazaar and Silk Markets in Bursa

A travel blog entry by momentsintime

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... Well, we were here to shop and haggle….,.so that’s exactly what we did as Michel and I kept going around and around and around…..after all, we had an hour here….the square shaped structure while browsing and admiring various silk scarves of various sizes and colors. They were all quite beautiful to say the least….temptation was there…..even ...

This Modern Place

A travel blog entry by ejbeyer

... and just as many people here have iphones as they do in Madison. I say these things because I have no idea what image is conjured in the minds of those whose thought graces over the place. It's not a camel-ridden backwater of a place, that's for sure. Right now the winter is in full swing, and were it not for the language and quite audible call to prayer I imagine I could easily walk out the door and mistake it for a French or Italian ...