Dear Friends and Family, The photo club took its first trek of the year to the newly renovated and restored Süleymaniye Mosque. This is one of the imperial mosques that creates Istanbul’s famous skyline. It was built in just 7 years (1550 – 1557) for Süleyman the Magnificent by the famous architect of his times, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'istanbul'
Süleymaniye Mosque
January 13th, 2011 1 Comment
Tags: istanbul · mosque · Süleyman · Süleymaniye Mosque
Wednesday Market in Fatih
January 7th, 2011 No Comments
Dear Family and Friends, I was a bit under the weather this week with an infection beneath a crown on one of my molars. This crown, the only one I have, is the result of a bad collision with a partially popped piece of corn 15 years ago. I guess I have never had a [...]
Tags: Fatih · istanbul · markets · pazarcılar
Han Trek
November 11th, 2010 1 Comment
Dear Friends and Family, This year, I joined a photo club. Once a month, it meets to talk about photos and photography, and once a month it makes a photo trek. Yesterday’s trek was to visit some of the hans behind the Grand Bazaar. These buildings were, and still are, used to store the goods [...]
Tags: hans · istanbul · PCiiW · photo club
Kuruçeşme Pazarı
October 20th, 2010 2 Comments
Last month, on my way home from a visit to the dentist, I was lucky enough to catch the 57UL bus on a Monday afternoon. 57UL is a great bus, because it stops within two or three blocks of the Bridge Gate of Robert College. The Bridge Gate is the gate in the middle of [...]
Blog Action Day 2010: Water
October 15th, 2010 No Comments
For Blog Action Day 2010, I will give you some facts about the Bosporus Strait, the body of water closest to my home for 9 months of the year. The Bosporus is 20 miles long and 2 miles wide at its widest point. It varies in depth from 100 to 400 feet. Its ‘S’ shape [...]
Tags: Blog Action Day · Bosporus · istanbul · Turkey · water
