Ancient Catholic Stelae

In front of the Aya Sofia, and somehow still intact after a good thousand years in a country that wasn't even remotely Catholic.

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Europe, Asia, or Something Even Better?

May 18th 2008
A Pleasant Way to Wake Up at 5am I woke up feeling the only way you can after an overnight bus ride - with a crick in my back and a faint confusion over exactly how few hours I managed to sleep. Then I looked out of the window. A faint yellow light was just taking hold and everything still had that quiet and peaceful look that can only happen between the rise of the sun and the rise of ... read more

Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Istanbul

Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk, or "Father of the Turks." Under his authoritarian leadership, the country adopt... ... read more

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