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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Turkey and Spain part 2

Here is the Hagia Sophia from the top of our hotel where we ate breakfast every morning. Turkish breakfast is basically raw materials....hard boiled eggs, tomatoes, cheeses, bread, olives, yogurt.

Various Spaniards.

I love that they have packaged sugar cubes, which seems a little ridiculous to me. But when you see them in a jar all together they make one smile. I really liked this one bakeries sugar cube packets because it had this jolly looking cook on it.

Random Turks sitting outside the Blue Mosque.

Some Turks fishing on the Bosphorus river.

Outside the cathedral in Toledo, Spain.

Friday, October 02, 2009

Turkey and Spain part 1

Cynthea and I just arrived back from visiting Turkey and Spain this past monday. The trip was amazing!

Before we set out I had decided I really wanted to try and emulate the great Enrico Casarosa's Venice Chronicles which I love so much.

Unfortunately, it was much too difficult to do this at the end of the day after crawling over ruins at Ephesos or just walking around all day.

I did however start the first two pages at the airport. Maybe I'll add more.

Below is the Isa Bey Mosque which is right next to St. John's Basilica. What's interesting is that because they pray five times a day you hear the calls from there minarets which birds seem to really love.

Tea is huge in Turkey! HUGE! I know Tea is huge all over the world except probably the US but i mean....everywhere we went....people just downed Tea like it was ambrosia.

These are a bunch of random Turkish folks that we saw outside of the Blue Mosque. We were sitting at a row of benches where guys were screaming out "CHAI, CHAI, CHAI!" It's so crazy to me that there are TEA salesmen on the street that go around screaming this. It's great!

That old guy bottom row in the middle screamed at this lollipop vendor kid for some reason....cranky old men exist everywhere. EVERYWHERE.

This last image is from Madrid, Spain at the Buen Retiro Park. This park made me realize how much i love central park and prospect park and Olmstead's idea of what a park should be. Cause Buen Retiro was all manicured and very much man made looking. Gravel paths, bushes fencing off every grass patch, and trees cut to look like poodles....yeach! More to come!