15 September 2005

Saying Good-bye or Until Later?


Istanbul
Originally uploaded by AliChen.
Turkey is full of surprises.

Architecture, natural wonders, and a lot of ruins. The food is good, the tea and coffee strong like their people, and it's not a land you can get a sense of the first time because there is so much history from so many different eras and cultures blended to form the one we know today.

I'd like to come back to Turkey someday. Maybe before it joins the European union, or maybe afterwards. But I'd like to see the parts I'd missed in the middle and on the Eastern side.

I'm told I'll have to travel with a man. It's not proper nor safe to travel with just women in that part of Turkey as it becomes more fundamentalist Muslim territory.

I'll look forward to it when and if it comes.

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