Saturday nıght

And some Turkısh football team is very triumphant and very loud. After a whole lot of messing around and occasional cursing İ managed to get into this account via an ancient keyboard half of whose letters are rubbed away and some of whose letters do not exist ın English but no matter. İstanbul is a wonderful city, part western part Muslim, and full of interesting sights and people. Hearıng the call to prayer 5X a day really makes you feel that you are ın a foreign country. I was last here over 20 years ago and ıt has become much bigger and more prosperous but still surprisıngly friendly for a big city. Highlights of the day for me were - in high culture - seeing the remains of a bear 400000 years old and the bits and pieces Schliemann found and Troy and left in Turkey rather than distributing round his friends and in slightly less high culture buying a beautiful sleek black reversible suede/leather jacket in the grand bazaar. Nikole if you are reading this, you will like it very much...