Kervansaray Bursa

... but had<br>Chinese parents, received the most interest, but calls of, "Hello!",<br>were heard over and over. Frequently, people would approach us and<br>start speaking English, just for the opportunity to chat. We felt<br>very welcomed here. <br><br><br>One young man, Osman, saw us on a couple of our trips up and down the<br>street, and was eager to help and offer information. He did have a<br>small carpet shop, but didn't push them when he found out we didn ...

... not much else to see or do. We headed back to Bilecik. Arriving in Bilecik I was asked if I wanted to go see someone's tomb. Not knowing who it was, I just said "OK," more out of politeness than anything else. Z. didn't know who it was either. Well, when we got there it was in a rather nicely landscaped perch on the side of a canyon that N. had scrambled around as a youth. And, when Z. translated the historical notes to me, I recognized who the tomb was said to be dedicated to ...

... nice restaurant, or a bank ATM, as I only had a very few Lira. I came upon what appeared to be a very nice restaurant on the walk along the shore. Inside a low hedgerow was a nice lawn and garden around a restaurant with linen table cloths. I thought surely they would take my card, and, as I had not spent any money on food all day, damn the cost. I went around to the front. From appearances it looked as if it might be a private club. Its name was Halic Sösyal Tesisleri, which I ...

During the nine days from August 22nd to the 31st I was pretty fully occupied in a volunteer involvement called the Nilüfer Sanat Kamp&#305; (Nilüfer Art Camp). It was pretty much a 24/9 engagement. Even when I was able to get to my rented home, sometimes at 1:30am, all I had time for was a shower before bed. Then it was up in the morning with just enough time to get to a pick-up spot on the street for a shuttle bus drop at the camp site. There were two working venues to ...

... military parade. Lots of troops marched through town, and there were many, many armored troop carriers and tanks and such. The uniforms looked pretty much like they might have been U.S. supplied, as I guess were funds for the rest of it, from what I have read. (Unfortunately, most of my pictures of all of all of this were as yet undownloaded from my camera, which was subsequently stolen in Valencia, Spain a couple of months later. No ...

... my friend was in the throes of bailing on the situation, and deciding, and by phone to the bus company arranging, an earlier return to Ankara. <br><br> We returned to my house in Bursa, she packed, and we caught a city bus to the otogar, the large inter-city bus terminal. It was very close. Too close for any closing remarks. She ran to the bus which was just backing out of the dock, I following with her light luggage. And then she was gone with a wave.<br><br><br><br>

... br><br> The use in India and China, far larg** markets, has been rising as much as 35 p**cent a year lately, with specialists predicting that similar growth could last through 2016. <br><br>New York TimesSelect: "Our Crumbling Foundation" <br><br>By BOB HERBERT <br>Published: April 5, 2007 <br><br>Fifty-nine years ago this week - on April 3, 1948 - President Truman signed the legislation establishing the Marshall Plan, which contributed so much to the rebuilding of postwar Europe. Now ...

... worrying about electronics and tracking on recently cleaned floors so I shut the door again.<br><br>I thought: I'm going to take a walk. Let the floor drain and dry; deal with it later.<br><br>Just then the door bell--well, it's actually kind of a bird chirping sound--rang. Or rather, chirped. It was my friend Mesut and a visitor from Belgium. They were visiting the Green Mosque and stopped by. Just in time.<br><br>We three went walking, first visiting a ...

... his wife providing the lift back) another member of the hiking party handed me a hatirlamak, a "rememberance." It was a carabiner! Somewhere in the preceding 2 or 3 hours or so I had been thinking I wanted something just like that to attach my pocket knife cord to my belt so I wouldn't have to keep playing with my knots and loops. The carabiner was of a color matching my knife cord. I don't know if the Turkish Travel Pixies were in on this one or not.<br>