Category Archives: Weasels in Istanbul 2024

My 7 days in the Turkish capital along with Anthea, John, Lindy and Sarah.

Halvdan was here

Posted on September 26, 2024 by Gary

The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul is the sort of place that you could enter and never be found again. With 62 streets and an area of 30,700 m2, it would be decidedly easy to get lost, and wind up wandering … Continue reading →

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What’s a eunuch, mummy?

Posted on September 25, 2024 by Gary

Back in 336, New Rome emerged on top of the small town of Byzantium. As befitting the new capital of the Roman Empire, the place that would become known as Constantinople, had to have the biggest and the best. The … Continue reading →

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John and the shoe shine scam

Posted on September 24, 2024 by Gary

In 2006, Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 2008, his next novel, The Museum of Innocence, was published. It tells the story of an Istanbul man, Kemal, who loves Füsun, his poorer cousin, someone he … Continue reading →

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Always losing her daughter

Posted on September 23, 2024 by Gary

Something I haven’t mentioned about Istanbul is the cats. There are a lot of them. You can’t really look anywhere that is devoid of cat. In groups, individually, asleep on posts, staring up at trees, sauntering along the street. It’s … Continue reading →

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Anthea’s special birthday present

Posted on September 22, 2024 by Gary

Today it was Anthea’s birthday so, we went aboard a small, luxury boat and spent two glorious hours on the Golden Horn and the Bosph⁷orus. The weather was kind and the water not too choppy. As the sun set, the … Continue reading →

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Dairy products we’ve confused

Posted on September 21, 2024 by Gary

I woke to torrential rain first thing this morning. Rain doesn’t normally wake me up (unless I’m actually in it) but this was very loud and my window was wide open. It had been predicted and fell as if the … Continue reading →

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Flight of the screaming baby

Posted on September 20, 2024 by Gary

The weather was quite balmy when we stepped out of the airport in Istanbul. The airport is massive and I’d already walked about 50 kilometres before leaving it, so walking into the steamy outside was just the rather salty icing … Continue reading →

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