Thursday, April 4, 2013

"The People Who Go"

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A sample quote from the public literature project "Those Who Go"   My Danish friend Michael, who took me on my very firs...
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Saturday, March 30, 2013

"I am Listening to Istanbul"

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"I am Listening to Istanbul" by Orhan Veli Kanik I had a young Turkish teenage friend who was supposed to be learning Engl...
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Friday, March 29, 2013

The Best War Expansion Prevention Protection Ever

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  The logo selected "by the people" to represent Istanbul's candidacy for the 2020 Olympic Games   Istanbul rece...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

'Backwards Day' in Istanbul: a news junkie's paradise

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I have a Kurdish friend, now of European citizenship, who says, "when I lived in Germany, I tried to be interested in everything happen...
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Thursday, March 21, 2013

Turkish baklava, the male kind

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Like the box says: Turkish baklava One day, my Turkish teacher explained to our class that if a man had a beer belly, it was affectio...
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Sunday, February 24, 2013

Turks and their Hammams - a couple stories of how they use them

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Recently, I enjoyed my first Istanbul hammam at Çirağan Palace Kempinski , the famous Ottoman Imperial Palace hotel on the Bosphorus, which...
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Friday, February 22, 2013

Part Two of My First Istanbul Hammam Adventure at Çirağan Palace Kempinski Hotel

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The hammam at Cirağan Palace Kempinski There are some discoveries in Turkey that are so delightful, they bring the immediate thought, “wh...
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