We didn’t go for a stroll after all, as it felt rather odd and unethical to be out when it was forbidden to actual Turks. Instead I did a good bit of work, and we did some planning for the flat (including a pinterest board (!)), ate biscuits with our tea and turned the heating […]
Day the first
This lockdown business is not suiting me at all. That said, it doesn’t seem to be suiting anyone else either. This morning I woke and saw a ghostly moving figure outside on one of the picturesque streets leading towards the Galata Tower. There I saw a young woman in a flowing white dress posing for […]
See you on the other side
Metaphorically speaking, of course. The weekend lockdown starts tonight so the GF and I decided to take Friday as our weekend (well, I did anyway; the GF just moved his working day to the evening). It was a lovely sunny afternoon and we went to get supplies for the next couple of days, having decided […]
Lockdown
Over dinner last night I mentioned to the GF that rumour has it a lockdown is imminent. After dinner I put the dishes in the dishwasher and went for a shower. Came out to learn that a lockdown has been announced: weeknight curfews and weekend lockdown. Not too onerous still, but I hope this is […]
Goodbye sunshine
After a warm, sunny long weekend, today the clouds have returned. It is grey and heavy outside, befitting Turkey’s coronavirus figures, speeding towards the top of the global charts. It would be quite something if the GF and I were to have stayed in both the best and the worst places to be during this […]
Kitchen connections
I was very grumpy indeed this morning as there was no water in the taps when I woke up, so that I had to use mineral water even to wash hands and brush teeth and perform the most basic ablutions. The water didn’t return till the stroke of 11, so I assume it was a […]
Up the Bosphorus
The GF got a fuller quota of sleep today, so after lunch we took the Metro towards the Bosphorus coast to find out how easy it is to get to Bebek by public transport instead of braving the ugly weekend traffic on the coastal road. It turns out easy and very pleasant indeed, and it […]
Prince’s Islands
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Far better
I started reading The Time Regulation Institute a couple of days ago, and as always my habit of going from lowly genre to quality literature pays off. It is such a pleasure to read something of quality, and later it will be a pleasure to read something with an entirely different appeal. This is a […]
Some progress
For the last little while the GF and I have been banging our heads against various forms of bureaucracy, most recently the bank – our ATM cards are blocked, can only be unblocked by telephone, to use the telephone service we need a telephone pin, the pin is sent to our registered phone number, we’ve […]