Courtyard of the Blue Mosque

June 1st 2012
Got in to Istanbul today after nearly 20 hours of travel. We took an awesome route, though: right over Romania and the Black Sea at the very end. Landed at around 10:15 AM, a beautiful, clear day, around 75 degrees. Took a taxi to my hotel, The Tulip House, where I was fortunate enough to get the best room in the place - I'm right by the garden, and my windows look out on it. When I arrived ... read more

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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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Matthew Henningsen

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The best places aren't on any maps. - Herman Melville At the end of all of our exploration we will arrive back at the beginning and know that place for the very first time. - T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to confront only the essential facts of life, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not truly lived. - Henry David Thoreau, Walden... full info

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