After yesterday’s slightly overwhelming day, today we decided to stay around Selcuk, which is a lovely little town. It’s bisected by a road, with the markets and other things on one side and the sights and old houses (many now turned into guesthouses) on the other side. We started with the museum which was fairly […]
A well-oiled pilgrimage
A fine breakfast this morning and then we took the dolmuş down to Selcuk. It was all very easy – the dolmuş goes every 20 minutes, costs 5 lira per person, making the journey feel smooth and spontaneous. But like and quite unlike our journeys in Beitou about 18 months ago. At the foot of […]
Exciting
Last night’s football was very exciting, and extrmeely amusing to see all these English people not quite daring to believe. I stayed in today, resting my hands and feet again, though I do think I’m nearly well. I hope the second vaccine dose doesn’t lead to a repeat, though.
Venturing out
Today I ventured out after days, rather cautiously as afraid of causing the feet to flare up again. The feet actually stayed fine and, oddly, it was my hands which objected. In any case, we went first to the flat where I got to see all the changes. The windows have arrived and are being […]
Back to the doctor
After last night’s consultation I caved and returned to the hospital seeking a doctor. It was not easy as walking is difficult and my hands are rather grotesque at the moment. Nevertheless I made it there by taxi, to a nice older woman with an interpreter. She is a dermatologist so was more interested in […]
Something unexpected
This morning I just happened to look at the vaccine website, not really expecting a change only to, in fact, see one. I dashed off to wake the GF then stopped at the door, and went back to try it out to make sure I could in fact register. And I could – for the […]
Cut from a carnivore
I returned to the hairdresser who gave me my last cut, once again an embarrassing length of time since the last one (though slightly less embarrassing than the last). I went there largely because I’d been putting off going to the GF’s good hairdresser for a few weeks as they take bookings on the phone […]
Angry Americans
At coffee in Cihangir today we sat next to an American on the phone and, of course, eavesdropped with great interest. He was talking to some sort of helpline in the US, to find out if he could get his first dose of the vaccine here in Turkey and then the second dose in the […]
Update re jab
Finally got through, not eligible. Hopefully there is a ‘yet’ in there somewhere….
Struggling for a jab
We learned that we might well be eligible, or nearly eligible, for a vaccination here in Turkey, but had to go through a fairly long registration process. This entailed, first, going to the post office for a government website password to be texted to us, then return to the computer to register on the website, […]