Monthly Archives: September 2024

All hail the cold

Posted on September 30, 2024 by Gary

The temperature was -2° when I left the house at 7:15 this morning. This is cold even for me. The time for shorts appears to have passed. So I put on my jeans and an extra long sleeved t-shirt. Apart … Continue reading →

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Last time this year

Posted on September 29, 2024 by Gary

I forgot to mention a very important and memorable occurrence yesterday. In a day of not much happening, Jason finally managed to pull a cork out of a bottle of wine without breaking the cork in half. This called for … Continue reading →

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Pleasure in doing very little

Posted on September 28, 2024 by Gary

As Mirinda drove off to the station, I leant out the glass room door and checked out the thermometer. The time was 8am and the mercury was struggling to hit 6°. My forehead was dry, and I was very, very … Continue reading →

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School trip for six year olds

Posted on September 27, 2024 by Gary

As I left the train at Vagnhärad I stepped into spitty spotty rain and almost spread my arms in joy as the temperature hit me. Istanbul was way too hot for me, being back in Sweden I was instantly happier. … Continue reading →

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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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