Tough life...

Don Quixote on the Aegean...

Out of Africa...into Çesme

Shoulder

(US) A part of a road where drivers may stop in an emergency

(TR) An additional lane to be used for passing, driving dangerously and inducing emergencies

Post match mayhem

The sights and sounds of Istanbul

Sorry - no photo - but wanted to get a small post in about the sounds of Istanbul (unrelated but interesting Fatih Akin documentary). I was laying in bed awake at 4:00am as only one can suffering massive jet-lag when I heard the first call to prayer. A second, less strong voice joined that first call and within minutes there was a mystical cacophony of competing voices which died down almost as quickly as they started.

That's the thing about this place. It's organically, intensely alive, from the birds chirping outside in my densely populated neighborhood, to the cat fights, to the occasional protesting tires of a cab driving by, to the call of the imam to the faithful....time for a run I think.