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Earlier in April
April Continues More Ramblings
April 14, 2000:
Merhaba everyone. Goreme has turned out to be just
as weird as the rest of Turkey: overwhelming hospitality sliced
off the kebab in generous portions. Tomorrow I jump a bus south
to the warm weather and long sandy stretches of Syria. My visa
is good for a nice 15 day stint but since they don't yet have
internet access (so I've heard) I may try and extend my stay
depending on how much I enjoy my new-found technology freedom.
Which reminds me what Vulcan said to me yesterday at the internet
cafe when the power had been out for over an hour and five angry
tourists kept asking him when it would be back on: "It used
to be so nice, all the people sitting outside in the parks writing
postcards. You know, in my Grandfather's time they even used
pigeons."
I'm taking a break from this 21st century. See you in a few
weeks!
(If you squint hard enough you can almost see the pigeons back-flipping
their way across the Capadocian sky. Here in Goreme the sites
are in the land, in the funny outcroppings and old Byzantine
churches. There also happens to be a whole ton of sheep to add
a little softness to the rocky landscape.)
April 18, 2000:
Said by some
to be the world's most unspoiled bazaar, Allepo's many mazes
and alleys contain just about anything you can imagine: from
raw cotton and wool to finely decorated gold and silver to freshly
killed sheep and camel.
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