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, […]

Longing for lockdown

Sunday lockdown today, so it was all somewhat quieter, though certainly nothing to lockdown proper. I had a bit of work I’d saved up for today, which I didn’t actually manage to do until quite late at night as it was one of those days when nothing seemed right. So the GF went for a […]

Back to the markets

Today, Saturday, and the organic market in Ferikoy was on, so we strolled there. We took the route through Dolapdere, with its vertiginous stairs, crumbling churches and beautiful neighbourhoods, and up to Ferikoy itself. It is yet another of the parts of Istanbul with truly lovely old houses, easily the equal of Balat, but very […]

Another island

It was a bank holiday for the GF and I had arranged my work so I didn’t have anything today, so we took a ferry to another of the Princes Islands, this time to Kinaliada. It was a less sunny day than the last time we went over, and in fact it pelted with rain […]

Back to the grind

Though it was Sunday I had a rather hardworking day, not that weekends mean much in pandemic life (or, truthfully, in my non-pandemic life). I felt a little better for most of the day, well enough to work but not so well as to stand or walk much, so finished some long-pending work, started on […]

Hard at work

The flat across the road is a source of constant entertainment. Right now a very hardworking influencer is filming herself (or being filmed by her boyfriend), walking towards the camera, the Bosphorus in the background, pause, ruffle hair, fling to side, extend 1 leg from little black dress, lean forward, turn, walk. And repeat. And […]