It’s late at night and I just realized I didn’t blog; have some photos from my trip to Istanbul (November 13th-ish to 16th-ish, if you count travel time). As I’ve been before and only had a weekend, I went up mostly to see one of my favorite professors from college and the staff member who originally encouraged me to apply for the Fulbright, which was absolutely delightful. We walked around, climbed the Galata Tower, ate Galata fish sandwiches (probably giving me cancer or mercury poisoning but definitely worth it), and talked and talked. On my own the next day, I got a chance to see some parts of Istanbul I’d missed before (walked up to– though did not go into, alas– the Dolmabahçe Palace, and took the ferry across to Kadiköy to eat dinner at Çiya Sofrası), saw friends, did stuff. It was excellent.
And now the can’t-write-a-blog-entry cop-out photos.
(Addendum: including captions with tags broke the entire blog, so here are the intended captions instead:
1: Myself and excellent professor atop the Galata Tower.
2: Excellent professor and awesome study-abroad guru.
3: Istiklal Caddesi, Istanbul's most famous strolling street, at dusk.
4: Looking across at the Galata Tower as a storm rolls in.
Clearly it is time to readjust the WordPress stuff in the background of this blog.)
More writing tomorrow, ideally.
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