Sunday, December 9, 2007

First impressions of Istanbul




Hello All,

Istanbul is fantastic, totally beautiful, loud, sometimes smelly, and very diverse. On the street, there are hip punk rockers, women in headscarves, super fasionable twentysomethings, old men smoking water pipes, and even a few women fully covered. And a ton of cats. Oh, and some lovely old buıldıngs as well. I am posting a small selection of photos, but for those of you who want more, please feel free to visit my picasa album. Be advised that they are mostly unedited.

Right now I am overwhelmed, trying to learn Turkish and not getting very far. A lot is happening, but most of the time I have no idea what is going on. Maybe after a few months, I will have some sort of clue.
More later!
Love,
Deborah

2 comments:

doug said...

Keep up the great blogs.
love, dad

susan tannenbaum said...

hi bugg,

we really love to see you photos and comments. good for couch potatoes who just look at maps to see where you've been.

miss you.....

l,m