lairdandjonelle

I think this didn’t work — I’ll try again, but I’m O for 3, I believe.

Crèche in Camel Yard at Owl House

Now you’ve seen the entire apartment but the closet. I didn’t take a picture of it.

what’s to say about a bathroom? Oh, I know — IT NEEDS STORAGE SPACE!

The kitchen, which we actually keep neater than this picture would say.

from our front door.

The other end of the room.

our beds under the window, thank god, because we can open the window and make it cooler.

Laird in our apartment

some students wanted a picture with me after my presentation

Galina and Zhenya, our hosts. We brought them the necklace and bolo tie.

Galina and Zhenya, our hosts. We brought them necklace and bolo tie.

At Galina’s house for dinner last Saturday

one of the fortresses at mouth of Bosporus — this on European side, another on Anatolian side. There was a chain across the mouth that could be pulled up as defense.

This is how I feel I should be dressed at the end of the day. I’m dreading Thursday and another hideously long day on a bus. Maybe go back here tomorrow and stock up.

Interestingly, all the kiddie mannes are like this. Weird.

At Grand Bazaar

What a beautiful place to have been so awful. All of the cemeteries and monuments give the souls of all these men the dignity they did not have in the last days of their lives.