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October 14th 2009 Wednesday in Istanbul was bath day for me. I was to leave for the east on a train at ten to midnight, so I thought a nice wash and massage would gird me well for the 68 hour journey. The weather had been gorgeous - cloudless skies, warm air, no hint yet of the autumn or or cold winters that this part of Turkey has - until the previous night when a cold wind blew up the Bosphorus and brought with i
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