Perfect + 1
Salaam,
Today was more of a perfect day than yesterday-the weather was more perfect, the views were more perfect, the food was more perfect...just everything..
I went on another ferry trip - this time to "The Princes Islands" a set of 5 islands 25km from Istanbul. They were a world away from the hustle and bustle of Istanbul and pretty interesting in of themselves; each island only has around 5000 people, there are no cars on the islands - everyone rides a bike or takes a "taxi" in the form of horse drawn carriages, all the houses look like old french houses or those wooden houses you get in cowboy films (you know, the ones with those swinging doors...), the views are Amazing, all the islands are covered in pine like trees providing beautiful countryside style areas, each island had really nice beaches and so on...
I visited two of them and basically spent the day exploring them, relaxing and reading my book. I dont think i mentioned, but in Amman in the final days i visited this bizarre bookshop (they had metal detectors before you entered) and bought the book 1001 arabian nights (i heard Sheherazade is a bit of a legend...and i am in the arab world after all). The book shop was really good though and had wide selection of books about Muslims in the world today. I was torn between three; "Whatever happened to the Egyptians? An analysis of Egyptian society since 1950", "Muslim Feminism" and "1001 arabian nights"...i think you'll agree i made the correct decision in the end.
Anyway tomorrow is my last day in Istanbul and at 11:45pm i fly back to Amman for 12 hours and then my flight to Cairo is at 11:45am (it was cheaper doing this than a single to Istanbul then a single from here to Cairo...dont ask me why)
Today was more of a perfect day than yesterday-the weather was more perfect, the views were more perfect, the food was more perfect...just everything..
I went on another ferry trip - this time to "The Princes Islands" a set of 5 islands 25km from Istanbul. They were a world away from the hustle and bustle of Istanbul and pretty interesting in of themselves; each island only has around 5000 people, there are no cars on the islands - everyone rides a bike or takes a "taxi" in the form of horse drawn carriages, all the houses look like old french houses or those wooden houses you get in cowboy films (you know, the ones with those swinging doors...), the views are Amazing, all the islands are covered in pine like trees providing beautiful countryside style areas, each island had really nice beaches and so on...
I visited two of them and basically spent the day exploring them, relaxing and reading my book. I dont think i mentioned, but in Amman in the final days i visited this bizarre bookshop (they had metal detectors before you entered) and bought the book 1001 arabian nights (i heard Sheherazade is a bit of a legend...and i am in the arab world after all). The book shop was really good though and had wide selection of books about Muslims in the world today. I was torn between three; "Whatever happened to the Egyptians? An analysis of Egyptian society since 1950", "Muslim Feminism" and "1001 arabian nights"...i think you'll agree i made the correct decision in the end.
Anyway tomorrow is my last day in Istanbul and at 11:45pm i fly back to Amman for 12 hours and then my flight to Cairo is at 11:45am (it was cheaper doing this than a single to Istanbul then a single from here to Cairo...dont ask me why)
Salaam
posted by Me at
7:33 PM
3 Comments:
btw 1001 Nights is diiiirty and orientalist rubbish. Most of it isn't stories told in Arabia but concoctions of some perverse Westerner who found a society he can project his perversness on. It's a shame because Scheherazade Is supposed to be an intelligent woman, a nice concept, but to go and ruin it like that. You'll see what I mean.
Glad you're enjoying Turkey, it makes me want to go. Soon iA.
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Anonymous, at 8:55 AM
Hmmm...thanks for the warning..although i must say the front cover picture didn't really give me good vibes about the book..
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Me, at 10:13 PM
Arrrrr...i Do see what you mean now Anonymous (please, at least think of an alias..) - every story seems to contain a woman whose face is "full as the moon" and then lots of descriptions about other body parts...Also interesting use of words e.g. "rapiers" and lots of people "mounting" each other...apart from this though i'm enjoying the book :)
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Me, at 6:38 PM
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