After about half a year, I’ve finally gotten around to finishing my travelogue regarding my trip to Turkey last spring. This will be a permanent feature above Younghusband’s Iran Diary. Hope you enjoy my collected thoughts and photographs of my journey through Asia Minor.
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Chief Wiggum
November 14, 2005
4:51 am
I've had the good fortune to visit Turkey twice and have gone to the places you visited and a few more. I really liked the Turkish people, who were gracious and helpful to me. The friendliest people usually turned out to be in the rug business.
It has always given me pause to walk in the ruins of ancient, powerful civilizations. I remember from Spengler's book an evocative bit about people herding goats in the ruins of magnificent temples, with no clue who built them or how they came to be destroyed. Or great Mayan cities taken back by the jungle, with the people losing their literacy and history.
Civilization has always been a bubble. But I like the inscription on our money: _NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM_ (New Order of the Ages) and _Annuit CÃ…“ptis_ (He [God] has favored our undertaking).
Gabriel Mihalache
November 14, 2005
12:33 pm
Even so, I don't see any of the pictures you took when you snuck into the harem. ;-)
Ben Shobert
November 14, 2005
10:28 pm